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Started by powerspade, May 01, 2008, 22:14:58

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powerspade

I know we should`nt make money out of selling our surplus produce from the allotment but I would like to sell and use the profits to put back into my plots, which I think I would be allowed to do. for example a couple of tons of manure for starters, also a green house and cold frame. I usually have runner beans by the bath full, also salad crops, and rhubarb. How do I go about working out a fair price to charge people 

powerspade


saddad

Personally I go for trade in kind but when we sell some produce at things like the Derby Eco fest I just make it up... the shop prices are usually so silly that you have no trouble getting rid...
;D

betula

I am sure that people will snap them up at car boot sales.

Obviously if it was a proper business you would have to work out your costings but if it is just to sell off extras,you could sell them for anything really
Make sure you cover your petrol and rent cost so I would not sell them silly cheap.

longlad

eh  up I have started doing a couple of gardens on top of full time and two and half plots any money I earn is split between holidays etc and new mower rotorvater and such like   ho hum ::)
oh bugger its raining

Old bird

I do sell my excess raspberries, currently I am selling rhuabard, and in the winter I sold Jerusalem Artichokes.  I also intend to sell excess strawberries, and spare plants etc and eggs (when I get my chickens)  You will all be so sick of me saying that soon!!

I do not do this as a business but as I have put in polytunnel, chicken house etc I want to cover my costs.

The plants I put on a table outside my house with an honesty box (and no I have not lost any money - YET!) and the other stuff I sell to Health Food Shop, local greengrocer and a pub!

Old Bird

;)

betula

When I was on holiday in Dorset we purchased veg that had been left on peoples doorsteps with an honesty box.It is a lovely way to buy your veg :)

:)

tonybloke

our allotment society doesn't allow selling of produce. fair enough, otherwise it's a business, and competition with other local producers who pay business rates, tax etc.
You couldn't make it up!

albacore1854

Well said Tony.

As well, If my memory serves, if you sell from the gate you lose your capital gains allowances, since you are technically operating as a business.

Because its just a quid here or there, people think its ok.






Proud to be a Trelawny man!

Old bird

Tonybloke

It is frowned on certainly but we are not talking quantity here Tony we are talking small scale a few packs of raspberries a few sticks of rhuabarb.  Probably a couple of quid to a fiver a week!  I am not going to be supplying Tesco in the near future!!

Old Bird!

Not surprised to see you here Albacore - don't suppose you have ever bought anything that fell  off the back of a lorry then!!

silly billy

Just wondering about honesty boxes...........do you name a price or do people just pay what they think its worth? I love seeing people selling their excess just last night we brought a dozen bantam eggs for £1.40 and secured and endless supply of rotted horse poop  ;D ;D its like gold dust round here.
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albacore1854

Quote from: Old bird on May 02, 2008, 13:02:01

Not surprised to see you here Albacore - don't suppose you have ever bought anything that fell  off the back of a lorry then!!

I most certainly have not, theft, or fencing is the pits.
Proud to be a Trelawny man!

albacore1854

Oh, and I've just been and posted on felt roofing.

Is that ok, or do you think I'm not well placed to advise there?

And the insinuation that I am in some way iffy, or whatever is getting a bit tiresome
Proud to be a Trelawny man!

Old bird



Thanks - but not interested in felt roofing! I certainly don't object to anyone giving advice if it is given in the right spirit and you are well placed in this category as I believe you are a builder!

I am sorry if I did insinuate that you may be a involved in anything iffy - but you brag about what you have and how much you spend on your dental work and how hard you work etc etc. and how rubbish this is that is and the other is and how you work sooooo hard and no one else works as hard as you and it really is annoying me BIG TIME.   Maybe we have a communication problem - but your tone is domineering, bullying, ignorant and nasty.

I cannot think that the Revenue would be interested in the  sale of a few dozen plants (which I grow in my own garden) and the odd spare veggies.  But I will fully account to the Revenue if and when I move - just in case I have broken the rules.  I will, if they say I owe capital gains tax, be able to offset the cost of the capital expenses that I have incurred so in effect no tax would be payable on the measly amount that I may or may not make.  But thank you so much for advising me of this potential tax problem.

Old Bird




cleo

With regard to honesty boxes I mark the price on a blackboard-and hope it doesn`t rain :)

There is no competition in this village and the only person likely to be had up for employing cheap labour is myself as a sole trader ???

ceres

Old bird, Albacore's incorrect.  There's no capital gains tax or allowances for that matter on the sale of your produce.  A capital gain arises when a capital asset is sold for more than the purchase price.  Your rasps aren't capital assets.

It's unlikely HMRC would consider the occasional sale of your excess crops as running a business but if they did, you would be able to set your expenses off against the revenue you earned.


Biscombe

#15
I have my own land and sell organic veg boxes and bags of oranges to get a bit of incoming dosh to pay for extra water, and manure etc...... gardening can be expensive! I don't feel bad in the slightest, people are crying out for my organic goodies at work. I pay enough tax as it is!

albacore1854

Apologies for my tax error.

Got it the wrong way round I think.

Proud to be a Trelawny man!

Ishard

Id be quite happy if something usefull 'fell off the back of a lorry' you know a bag of tenners or a greenhouse but ah thats the stuff dreams are made of lol

Im gonna sell my excess to the parents of the school pupils and me and the school funds are gonna go halves with it. Im gonna bag things up and charge 1 pound and it depends what it is to how much they get.  ;D

Old bird

Ishard

I dream about these things too!!  What about that ship that went aground in Cornwall or Devon I would have been down there like a shot!!  Also the one in Worthing that washed up all that timber - what a completely fabulous time I would have had!!  Did you see the wood?  It was just fabulous  really really thick and great long planks - many a deep bed that would have made!

Old Bird
;D

Ishard

Funny that you mentioned that ship! My daughter lives in Devon and I nagged at her to get over there and she wouldnt :( I thought I had taught her better than that!!!! She certainly doesnt take after her mother!

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