Today’s edition of Tuesday tips will be all about how you can grow your own vegetables for hardly any expenses. In today’s episode I’m going to show you how you can start cutting down the money you spend in your garden and end up saving money.
Patrick’s Frugal Garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75KXESxcYb8
Free eBook on growing food cheaply: https://www.scribd.com/doc/250045858/How-to-Grow-Food-Cheaply
Composting tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLzzRBj-7s0
Michigan State University article: http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/can_a_vegetable_garden_save_you_money
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Nice, it is useful.
May be you want to see this also, I hope it helps; http://beforeitsnews.com/self-sufficiency/2016/01/how-to-grow-food-easily-on-wasteland-2499706.html
To Hurong…Green onions are very cheap, I buy them and plant them in the dirt. Cut the green part and they'll grow back again.. simple. Certain times of the season I plant a cauliflower core in the ground and I cut the leafs off and eat them. Squeeze a lemon use the seeds to grow a tree. Coffee grounds, eggs shells mix them in your dirt for your soil. There are many things. just look them up on the internet.
Thank for the videos
Great tips Huw, very practical. I love your motto, "Don't panic and grow organic!"
Quality video, filled with lots of great tips. Thanks!!
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(1) Grow several fruit trees that do well in your area. They can be as low work as you want. Plant different types and varieties to spread the season. Here we start with Apricots in late may, then grapes in Late June, plums july, peaches August, apples October, persimmon november and pomegranate in late december. Different varieties will also lengthen the seasons. Learn to cook with fruit as well – Grilled peach with meat, apples with pork and so on – means you will use more.
(2) Some plants grow back every year, climate depending. I have even had chillis and bell peppers survive, but also kale, fennel, and so on. Other plants re-seed themselves if you let them flower and seed – Arugula, chard, carrots.. So aim to have areas of the garden that are basically semi-wild where the food looks after itself. Also, dont forget to include wild plants in your diet – easy to grow – nettles, miner's lettuce, fat hen, purslane, dandelion, mustards. Or jazz it up by growing selected "garden" varieties of wild plants.
(3) Onion flowers are edible.. harvest when in full bloom, and simply slice off the florets for "chopped onion". Great on salads. Dont grow onions only as bulbs – but also as greens and for their flowers. They wont bulb as well, but you can leave them in the ground to regrow next year with zero extra cost/effort.
(4) Mix your plants; the more you mix them up, the harder it is for pests to find them. Especially mix plants with different smells – fennel, onions, chard, parsley, carrots, oregano – all in one jungley mix. Looks great and resists insects. Even better if the roots go to different depths.
(5) If you buy a tomato seedling, when its about 6 inches tall, take off the top 3 inches and root in a glass of water on the windowsill. The original will branch, and when the branches are 6 inches long, repeat with each. Do the same with the rooted cuttings. If you start early in the season (the benefit of buying plants), you can turn one plant into a dozen easily without losing more than a month of growing. In fact, probably nothing, because they seem to "catch up" quickly anyway.
(6) Expensive things that grow easily: Marjoram, rosemary, sage, oregano, chives, raspberries, lettuce, arugula, other "salad greens" – mustards, cress, etc.
Overall, I'd just recommend letting things go to seed frequently, scatter them around the place, in as many different environments as possible (under trees, in grass, on gravel paths, etc.) and simply see which take off where and stand back and let them do it. Then learn to cook those in a way you enjoy. For example, try making spanakopita with nettles or dandelions (mallow, fennel fronds, pretty much anything, or mixed). Get a blender (magic bullet is ideal) and blend any of these greens with 3 eggs and use to make a green omelet.
100 dollars u not in U.K. U clown?
thanks
How can I get the ebook? The app said it is unavailable.
In Washington State USA, people make cider out of the Apple harvest.
So many people mentioned about setting up automatic drip irrigation systems for the garden, urban gardening that is.. and it is pricey. We just spent $200+ setting up one for the backyard. I guess it counts towards set up fees.
Thank you for sharing your videos!
Love, from US growing zone 10b
Hi you could add a section in your ebook on growing from scraps, e.g. celery, leeks, onions etc?
Inspiring video from you.
Toooooo good-expect more from you
Does the small white worm found in cow dung harmful to plants ?
Concise and informative video. Unfortunately scribd wants me to subscribe for your free ebook.
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It's true, you can get out of control and end up growing vegetables that are more expensive than in the store. However, keep in mind there are other benefits: Your vegetables are MUCH fresher than those in the grocery store and in many cases they taste better. Try a green been from a can, freezer or even "fresh" in your grocery store then grow your own. You will see how the ones in the store are virtually tasteless but garden green beans have a LOT of flavor.
Hi there, thanks for this, just setting up near to you….is it possible to visit? Secondly, can you email me a copy of your book too? Don't want to put card details into scribed. Thanks
Hello.. I use old tyres to grow my vegetables in. This then saves space and is easy to keep weed free. Also using bamboo canes and netting to keep out birds and cats
just by growing enough potatoes and onions on my allotment for the year I've covered my costs on the allotment and seeds etc for the year.
I also compost everything I can lay my hands on, if its been alive at any time in the past it goes on the compost heap.
Growing peas and beans to dry is another great money saver and after your first purchase of seeds you never need buy them again if you save seeds.
Saving seeds is another huge money saver and very easy to do.
So simple and straight forward, yet rare advice to find, for those of us with limited energy as well as money, this video is a real treasure! Amazing to see how much you have grown, too, Huw, especially in confidence 🙂
Good afternoon,
Is this free E Book still available somewhere else?
Cannot find anywhere..Thank you
Happily subscribed
Just found this video
Wish I could read the ebook