12 Easy Tips To Save Money While Gardening

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Today I thought I would share some quick tips that I use to help save money while gardening. I love gardening for a lot of reasons. It is a source of enjoyment that serves as a wonderful classroom for my son and it helps me save some money. While I have invested in building my garden this is the time of year it starts to pay me back in produce. 0:28 Reduce the Cost of Groceries 1:06 Focus on High Cost Crops 1:18 Free and Local Fertilizer Resources 2:00 Make Free Garden Soil 2:08 Using Rain Water to Save Money 2:43 Reusing Water from the Kitchen in the Garden 2:53 Save Seeds to Save Money 3:05 Starting your own Seedlings Saves Money 3:32 Investing in Perennial Fruit and Nut Producing Plants 3:51 Propagating Perennials to Save Money 4:08 Process Crops to Higher Value Products 4:43 Building from Recycled or Naturally Sources Materials

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Great video! I love making wine out of my surplus crops. In missouri it was a great year for peaches and cucumbers.

The last to gardening seasons have not been very good in my area of BC. What I was able to harvest, I quickly put down whether it was freezing or canning. Two seasons ago, I was able to make so much pasta sauce and pizza sauce that I have not had to buy a jar of it in well over a year.

My money saving gardening tip is to develop a list of seasonal recipes that use vegetable available in your garden at a specific times of the year. For example, we make a stuffed peppers recipe that uses zucchini in the summer and we make a stuffed peppers that uses butternut squash in the fall.

Wow. The wine making is a great idea. Lots of great ideas.

Greeting from New Jersey. You have an excellent garden. I have a 10000 sq ft of growing space for my garden. I didnt save a lot of money through gardening. I spent around $1800 to build the garden (infrastructure, compost, rentals etc). I sold some produce to friends and much to myself. My melons got eaten away by insects. Some white bodied flies I dont know what they are. It's kind of disappointing. What grew well for me so far: garlic, okra, onions, corn, summer squash. What failed miserably: melon, spring planted spinach, cabbage, eggplants (they are still in garden but not producing fruit).

save money and enjoy your garden all at the same time !b🐝🐞🐤👍👍

another great vid! thank you!

Great job :)

I am amazed at how much you have done with such a small space. Moreover, I am very impressed that you can do this with only about 3 months of "warm" weather. In the Dominican Republic, we have sunshine all year long, which i'm sure you'd get a lot of benefit from. I have definitely taken up a lot of pointers from your videos and I will be surely developing my techniques and results Thank you!!!

Hey Stephen, I was wondering if you could do s short video on whether or not Canola oil is an effective organic pesticide to use in the garden?.

Thanks and keep pumping out the great content!

Thank you for your video. It was clear and easy to follow---and gives me hope that maybe my attempt at gardening will someday be a complete success.

Always great info Stephen! Thank you!

Great suggestions Stephen!!. The old turkey fig tree that came with the property I reside on is the most productive and low maintenance perennial here. I took a few cuttings this year, and one of them rooted well. I would recommend anyone who is into self sufficiency and lives in a zone where figs can be grown in the ground to have at least one tree.

Well done my friend! This time of year I barely buy any fruit nor vegetable, just eat fresh, local food, even some fresh fish from the lake ;-)

awesome.... but i think you forgot something:: CANNING..... Do you not can your food- or even turn your cucumbers into pickles???

Excellent tips, Stephen! Your garden is looking great!

Great video! Going to the garden is like going to the grocery store this time of year-- there's so much coming in.

I'll bet if you made your wine a private label vintage, you could sell out on-line and make a tidy profit! Just remember to sell no wine b4 its time! Lol!

I love to use second hand items or even better free stuff in the garden. Beds, trellises, and fencing can all add up if you are buying new. Some things are worth the money to me though. My pruning shears is a cheap pile of junk and does damage to the plants with it's dull cuts, definitely should've spent a bit extra for a higher quality tool in that case. In the end I garden because I enjoy it and would likely continue even if it wasn't saving me a lot of money, that's just an added benefit.