Tips for Starting Your Spring Garden
Who can resist getting excited when the temperature starts rising, shades of green begin decorating the landscape and beautiful colors burst forth replacing the dull gray and brown of winter? It’s almost gardening time and that’s also a reason to be excited. The following tips can help you get started on a budget-friendly spring garden.
- Set a limit: It is easy to get over enthusiastic when buying seeds or plants for your garden. Before you go shopping, make a list of what you want to include in your garden. This can help you resist the temptation to buy too many plants.
- Timing: Although it may be hard to resist rushing to buy plants on the first warm weekend, you should exercise some patience. Planting too early may mean that you will have to buy plants again if the temperature drops and the young plants don’t survive.
- Seeds: Buying seeds, instead of individual plants, is a budget-friendly gardening idea. You may even be able to find a gardener who is willing to give you some seeds or swap seeds with you. You don’t need to spend money for fancy seed starting containers. Egg cartons, empty yogurt cups and numerous other items can be re-purposed as seed cups.
- Shop Frugally: There are an abundance of gardening gadgets and tools available. However, all you really need is the basic gardening tools that are appropriate for the type of garden you have. It is more cost-efficient to purchase good quality tool that will last for many gardening seasons. Another way to shop frugally for your garden is to wait for seasonal sales and over-stock price reductions on plants. Many times plants that don’t look up to par are marked down considerably. You can often save these plants by giving them some quality care at home.
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