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Seeds, plants, soil amendments, plant protection, supports – the cost of running a vegetable garden can add up…but it doesn’t have to!
You don’t need lots of money to start a garden. With a little creative thinking, it’s possible to grow a successful garden for next to nothing.
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I recycle my sunflower stalks as poles for my beans and peas.
Thanks for all your great advice.
The warm and cool weather tips were absolutely life saving, thank you so much for helping me grow!
WAIT I SPOKE TOO SOON THE SEEDLING IDEAS AH! THANK YOU!
Probably not the safest way to drill?
As always your videos are valuable and very easy to understand. My son and I have used and recycled plastic containers and since I don't have a lot of space I grew my plants in pots.
So helpful! I love this channel and your web-site for Garden Planners!! Thank You!!
A really good idea is also to get seeds and cuttings from your friends and neighbors. And, one could also share the seeds with neighbors and friends, thus saving money.
If all people were like you, the world would be a paradise 🙂
I plant in anything I can lay my hands on. My faves are cooking pots, coffee pots, old tin baby baths and watering cans like you have shown in this video. Somebody somewhere is usually throwing something cool away and car boots and charity shops quite often have some good finds too. My husbands uncle now sadly passed away was an amazing gardener and would make anything out of anything. He was living in a council house and once they put in new windows and did repairs to his house. They left loads of materials behind and he furnished his whole garden making up places to plant out of pipes and a really great edging for a flower bed out of roofing tiles. I think he was the true cottage gardener and I try to be the same way. Swapping plants and ideas from neighbours is probably the cheapest and best way to garden in the cottage garden way.
Haven't tried myself, but have been told a lot of times plant nurseries have various sizes of black plastic pots that they need to get rid of and can't always locally recycle. (In the U.S. at least.)
my tip is re use drinking water bottles as either self watering pots or make into bottle towers mine are working so well this year ill fill my garden with more and more over time
EBay has great deals on seeds.
Lovely.. Motivated to start . Love the advice.
You mentioned the seed exchange, in the U.S., there are many community garden groups that offer seeds for free in various locations, such as libraries, community organizations and such.
What could be the best vegetable graden channel than this..what a great channel!.
If you get manure from stables or a farm, beware if the animals have been drenched or wormed as their manure can destroy your soil worms, dung beetles and the like
My tip, use old CD/DVDs as garden markers.
How dare you# ladybugs that united sucks of America. They are called *Ladybirds was you born in a field*. I don't care if your audience is American *it's birds on the end *not bugs*.
Hi there, enjoying your videos, many thanks! I have a question – what's the difference between leaf mould and compost in terms of what it's used for? Do I need to have both? Complete Garden Novice!
Hello! My daughter and I love the channel but she really enjoys the way you say hello on all your videos and for some reason your eyebrows make her laugh! Thanks for the smiles here x
Lots of great tips here. Thank you!
Thanks another great video! ☘️☘️
Such a great question to spark equally informative conversations in the comments section! I appreciate your videos tremendously. I’m on a quest for dead leaves. I decided to try the deep litter method in my chicken run and to use leaves for mulch as well. Is that a good or bad idea?
I started a very low cost garden this year (2021), first I dug up the grass in the place I wanted to start and used concrete slabs (old ones that I had lying around) to make an edge. Then I covered the soil with cardboard as I have no trees to start with so zero leaves. I put old bricks on top of the cardboard so they will stay in place. I then cut holes in the cardboard and inserted "grow tubes" (cut from old soda bottles) and planted my seeds in them. I have had a bumper crop so far even though the garden is new. I planted 6 trees, but one died, all from cuttings taken from my neighbors trees except the avo tree from a pip all in grow tubes as well. I use a soda bottle for watering with a hole in the lid, making a water smart garden is very important to me as Cape Town almost ran out of water 2 years ago. There is a field next to my suburban house and people dump stuff in it (very annoying) but I get to use some of the stuff to compost for the next season. I am amazed how God has blessed this project. Saving seeds as well.
Told all my (online) friends to send me their free samples of whatever flowers they received in the mail, shopping etc. I'll pay the postage fees. This way, I got a huge variety of seeds for next to nothing, that would otherwise be thrown away.
I'm using food safe containers from the Dollar Stores and 18-gallon storage tubs. They can be gotten from Walmart etc and even thrift stores. Put them on chairs, bricks or blocks and you have a raised flower or veggie bed.
The town in which I live collects all the autumn leaves that the residents rake out to the curb, composts them over the Winter, then gives out the free leaf compost the next year. I use that extensively.