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Posted By diydoityourself 6 months ago in Business & FinanceYou must remember that while home gardening on a budget might seem challenging; if you can be imaginative in the way you approach your gardening, you can easily make do with what you have.
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Want to garden on the cheap?
Keep organic matter out of the landfills by composting it (or vermicomposting it) at home and using it on your garden instead of paying for chemical fertilizers.
Get rid of the lawn. It is an unnatural monoculture, and thus requires much labor and money to maintain its unnatural state. Replace it with happy natural plant communities which fill all niches both structurally and functionally (read Gaia's Garden or Food not Lawns to find out how.)
Stop using pesticides and cultivate plants that attract predatory insects. Or get chickens.
Harvest your rainwater.
Recycle cardboard and newspaper into sheet mulch.
Take advantage of the poor souls who still have lawns by taking their grass clippings off their hands and composting them or using them as mulch.
Garden with plants that benefit you - not just plants that look pretty. If it doesn't give me food/herbs/fiber/dye/medicine, it doesn't get planted in my garden.
Plant perennials. If you must plant annuals, give preference to those that readily reseed. Stay away from hybrids, favor heirlooms that will breed true.
Join or organize a local seed-sharing group.
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