|
|
|
By Michelle
By Anna
By mc2grants
By pamphyila
By Margie
Use discarded items you find as unique planters... tires, rims, boots, wicker chairs, hard hats or buckets.
Recycle your yard waste and veggie scraps to create your compost pile. Add coffee grinds, egg shells, veggie scraps, leaves, and yard waste into a pile and stir every week. It is great exercise and in one year you will have saved money for not paying a gym for a good work out and for not having to purchase fertilizer/top soil for your new plants.
Also when you buy fresh foods at the farmers market save your seeds. Dry them on wax paper then store them in an envelope an freeze till next year and plant. Some will grow and not produce fruit but have pretty blooms others will prosper and give lots of produce, so either way it is free plants and possibly free food! Hey, who doesn't like that idea! I have five kids, what do you expect!?
Visit your rural mill or seed store, not a Lowe's or a nursery but a dirt on the floor, bags of horse feed stacked to the ceiling, cat sleeping on the counter kind of mill. Place a wanted ad on their board and you will be surprised at how many local farmers have plants or seeds they are willing to share or sell for a reasonable price. We got several mature raspberry plants for $4.00 total, normally a start costs $5.00 each at Lowe's.
The best thing we ever did to save money was to go to a home and garden show and take lots of pictures of all the expensive things we were wanting. Then we went home and with mostly scrap wood, fencing, iron, and whatnots, we were able to spend less than $75 and created an enchanted patio space instead of hiring the work out and spending $2000. Now that kind of saving is worth forfeiting a Saturday and working up a little sweat.
By Hoffmann House Network
Do you have any more ideas? Please post them below.
By
11/06/2010
Go cruise your neighborhood on Yard Waste Pickup day. Many discards have roots and can be replanted. You can also trade cuttings/diggings with your neighbors and friends.
By
11/06/2010
Go to an Agricultural Fair and buy plants from the people who bring them to show. Some bring extra plants to sell, not just their "Blue Ribbon " plants. The lowest prices are on the last day of the fair as they won't have to transport them home.
By denise w (Guest Post)
09/09/2007
Hi I just wanted to add that I save all my seeds from veggies and fruits over the winter and start my seedlings for my garden from these. My hubby didn't think you could do this with fruits and veggies from the grocery store but you can. We had some great melons and peppers this year.
By
09/07/2007
After Xmas you can always pick up poinsettias - & they do well in the S. California climate, being originally from Mexico - and make a nice large plant.
Like ThriftyFun on Facebook
