GARDENING HELPS KEEP YOUR FOOD COSTS DOWN WHILE INSPIRING IMAGINATION. This year may be the year you decide to finally grow a vegetable garden in your front or back-yard. Gardening can be as inexpensive or costly as you’d like depending on how you approach it. My name is Karen from the blog Lil Suburban Homestead and I hope I can inspire you to get out and dig with our best kept secret vegetable garden tips. To start your vegetable garden you may feel a bit intimidated, don’t be. To ease your worries I’ll share with you our success and failures over the years. We’ve been through it all which has helped us become homestead experts for our family. Sometimes failure is only the beginning to your success. Beginning to vegetable garden is about learning When we started our vegetable garden let’s just say our first attempt turned into a failure but not without a learning experience. I was disheartened but not discouraged from continuing my quest to grow home-grown, delicious food! I guess you could say it was in my DNA as when I grew up my parents always had a tiny garden but I always wanted […]
How To Grow A Budget Vegetable Garden From A Homestead Expert : The Grocery Game Challenge 2017 #3-4 June 19- July 2
How to start your spring garden using odd containers
TIME TO GET YOUR GARDEN READY Now that spring is around the corner it’s time to get your green thumb ready to start your summer garden. Growing your own garden is rewarding because it can save you a good chunk of money in your grocery budget. Another bonus is that you get to sit down in the comfort of your home and enjoy putting food on your table that you had a hand in growing. Growing your own food is like printing your own money—Ron Finley Start your garden seeds My favourite time of year is coming where I get to start working on landscaping projects for my customers and to get my own vegetable garden ready. Looking outside today it is extremely hard to believe that spring is on its way, but it will be here soon enough. Around this time every year my Spring fever starts to kick in and I can`t wait to see the beautiful green grass that is hiding under the dreaded snow. As long as Old Man winter keeps making his presence known I will just have to deal with it and wait but in the meantime I’ll get started […]
Free Plants And Easy Ways To Save Money On Gardening
By: Katrina Are there easy ways to save money on gardening? Yes! While I am not saying to stay away from garden centres as they give you a large selection of plants to choose from, there are a few easy ways to save money on buying plants. It is possible to get free plants or at a fraction of the cost but you have to get creative and maybe get your hands dirty but it’s always worth it since the cost of plants can get pricey. Why would people give away free plants? Unless someone grew annuals from seed and have more than they need you are more likely to find a great deal on perennials. Growing from seed is a far more cost effective way to save money in the garden but not everyone has a green thumb like I would for example. I love growing plants and seeds are fairly inexpensive if you compare them to the ready-made plants at the nursery or garden centres in town. If you take a look around your neighbourhood I bet you will see many plants that come up year after year and seem to sprout up in different spots as well as they multiply. If you are an […]
