Reducing your gardening costs - Part One
Despite being a hobby, gardening usually take away some of your budget - you have to buy the plants, seeds, materials, fertilisers, and perhaps some of you will need herbicides, pesticides, etc...
Do you really have to buy all these?? No. You can decrease your gardening budget. Here are some tips for having many plants for almost nothing:
Your plants
Build your plant network with friends, relatives and neighbors. Get in contact with people and swap plants with them. You'll easily get extra plants for free!! Tip: propagate your plants through cuttings when it's trimming time.
Seeds Harvest your seeds. Seeds let you expand your plant quantity quickly, but some patience is required sometimes(eg. for cactii). If you are inexperienced, try harvesting seeds from flowers like marigolds. Another trick is to swap seeds. When you buy a packet of seeds, you generally get more than you need. Swap the remaining ones with friends!!
Be sure to come back to check other tricks. You can also share your tricks.
Do you really have to buy all these?? No. You can decrease your gardening budget. Here are some tips for having many plants for almost nothing:
Your plants
Build your plant network with friends, relatives and neighbors. Get in contact with people and swap plants with them. You'll easily get extra plants for free!! Tip: propagate your plants through cuttings when it's trimming time.
Seeds Harvest your seeds. Seeds let you expand your plant quantity quickly, but some patience is required sometimes(eg. for cactii). If you are inexperienced, try harvesting seeds from flowers like marigolds. Another trick is to swap seeds. When you buy a packet of seeds, you generally get more than you need. Swap the remaining ones with friends!!
Be sure to come back to check other tricks. You can also share your tricks.
4 comments:
nice tips in here. awaiting part two.
Thanks Leo.
I'll be publishing the other parts soon.
I fell in love with hellebores and was talking to a customer of my husbands, about my garden and some of the flowers I would like to buy, but don't, because of the cost. She offered to give me some of her Hellebores when she split them up. I can hardly wait for the day when she calls and say "come on over to get your plants"
Gardeners are special people indeed (well, most of them)
Thanks Keewee. Sharing of plants is a very simple way of getting lots of plants :) Especially the most expensive ones. hehe.
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