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The best things in life are free, and that includes growing your own organic fruits and vegetables.
If you’re not careful, breaking ground on your own vegetable garden can soon start to get expensive. But it doesn’t have to!
In this short video we’ll share our fabulously frugal tips to help you grow more for less.
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Thanks for watching! We'd love to know what your top tips are for saving money in the garden. Please share below and let's see if we can't grow even more… for even less!
Although my last frost date isn't until mid-May, I think I need to start planting seeds this weekend and building a compost pile…I just can't wait! Love your videos, always very informative and I've learned a lot over the years – thank you!
Hi, great video as usual. Your raised beds with bits of wood and kitchen scraps need to be left for how long before using? Wont they start growing from the seeds in the kitchen scraps?
This is well done. Filling the bottom of your raised beds with 'chaff' not only saves money but it allows you to build them taller at minimal cost. I was very fortunate to find a 4 acre property in 2002 that had a partially burned brick and timber building. While other potential buyers shunned the property as a liability, I SAW a 'gold mine'. I salvaged the usable lumber and built counter height beds, filled the bottom 1/3 with broken brick, cut up and filled the middle 1/3 with unusable lumber and topped them off with homemade compost and soil over the next few years. The benefits have been endless. Yes, it was a LOT of work. But cost me little more than my time and the 'improved' property is now worth twice what I paid for it. It CAN be done.
Love my Saturday mornings with first cup of tea watching your videos! Will share this one with the allotment FB group.
Loving your positive attitude! Roll on spring!
Thank you for this wonderful video full of excellent suggestions
great tips. It would be fantastic if you do a video elaborating on each in more depth. All the ways to use straw for instance. Don't know if this will work but I bought a good paper shredder that makes short crinkly shreds out of paper and cardboard. Now anything lighter than heavy packing boxes goes into it. I plant to use it for pathways between my raised beds and hope I'm not poisoning the neighbouring plants with coloured print. It's free and packs down after a bit to keep weeds away. Also keep more debris out of the landfill.
Love watching your videos with my kids. They will be starting their own square foot gardens this year and have learned a lot from you. Thanks so much!
Thank you do much! Great ideas!
I get free buckets from a farm nearby. I made holes, and started growing food on my balcony. I have a grafted pear and apple tree in repurposed buckets. And they fruit.
When did the government change from pound to dollars
Hi, for the moment here in the Jura mountains of France it’s minus 21°C so the only thing I can do is dream about my future crops while watching your videos!! Thanks!
I'm going to try growing beans and peanuts and squash from grocery store dry beans, raw peanuts, and the produce aisle. Some seed companies don't have enough seed supply this year and things are sold out already, because we can all feel that food scarcity may be coming. So hopefully getting things from the grocery store can fill the gaps the seed companies can't fill this spring.
My dad grows mammoth dill. It's gone wild honestly. He mulched up canes and had half the the bad bugs this season.
Thanks for the money saving tips. I really like watching your videos. QUESTION: when you put the sticks and twigs into your garden bed on top of the manure and then covered them with compost, doesn’t the slow breakdown of the sticks and twigs hurt the plants taking Nitrogen away from the plants roots? If it were being done in a deeper bed I could see doing that as most vegetable plants are shallow rooted and only need about 6 to 8 inches of soil for raised beds??? Also wouldn’t throwing kitchen scraps and leaves in for one of your layers in the small beds cause a composting effect and the resulting heat hurt the veggie roots? Or is all this done in the fall so a bed is ready for planting in the spring? I look forward to reading your reply.
Fantastic suggestions Ben, looking forward to try some of them!
Must you contort your face to draw attention on YouTube? Does the quality of the videos not suffice?
Sorry that this is, no doubt, a really stupid question, but what is the point of raised beds? What is wrong with planting vegetables in the ground? As a beginner gardner, I know that this is a bit of a thick question, but I would be very grateful for an explanation!! Thank you, if anyone can answer! 🙂
Tiny tip, but I flatten toilet roll cores both ways along their length, to create a square shape so that they nestle together side by side and have less chance of drying out. Hope this makes sense!!
I'd amend the "no plant material should leave your garden" slightly: Any plant that suffered from blight or any other disease should be removed and disposed of far away from the garden. If you have a "hot" compost pile, it can be added there, but if it's cold, just throw it away.
Dollars???
Hi can you tell me how long for big onions please. I not should to keep them in for thank you
May I ask, why do you need to dry the seeds before you put them in the soil to germinate? (Where, presumably, you add water again anyway, to aid the process of germination?)
This is m’y favorite Channel…very nice video, I learned a lot waching it.. good luck
I’m guessing you have a lot of American followers, since you said pallets cost $10 to deliver, and said herbs cost a lot in ‘store’. Or are you living in US or another country with dollars? I’d assumed your accent matched your location.
I have an old cement laundry trough & bathtub to use for my growing.