Ten Inexpesive Gardening Techniques To Enable You To Save More Money All Year Long

Whether or not you are an eager vegetable gardener, a beginning herb gardener or simply like to have a pretty yard, these frugal tips may assist you in saving a little money!

1. Rancid coffee and coffee grounds make great organic manure. They supply many trace minerals and low, gentle levels of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous. A Few people even run their own home business providing this exact service.

2. Remember that a good soaking of water less frequently trumps a light sprinkling each day — for veggies and for your grass.

3. If your neighbor has a plant you particularly like, ask for a cutting, rather than going to the nursery and purchasing one. Maybe you could trade a cutting from one of your own plants.

4. To simply water a tomato plant, bury a bottomless coffee can next to the plant and pour the water into the can. This permits the water to go direct to the roots.

5. Plant marigolds in your plant garden. They’ll attract insects that eat aphids and other pests.

6. My hubby purchased some used carpet at a garage sale, cut it into wide strips and laid it down between the rows in our garden. Now we will be able to pick peas with getting our shoes muddy.

7. Use grass clippings as mulch around your plant plants to keep moisture in and weeds out. Simply don’t don’t use the clippings right after you have fertilized your grass or treated for weed control.

8. If you’ve got access to them, pine needles make wonderful mulch.

9. A natural, frugal garden pest spray: mix 1 spoon of liquid dishwashing soap and 1 cup of cooking oil. Use 3 tablespoons of this blend to 1 quart of water and spray on plants.

10. In the herb garden, to keep plants like mint from taking over too big an area, put it in a clay pot and simply plant the entire pot! “He who plants a garden, plants happiness.”