How your veggies can be 'free' - a response to Migardener Facebook Post today
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Today we are going to detail our costs for our container garden. While you can argue that nothing is never 'free'. The costs are reduced year over year to where your veggies are practically 'free'. Each method of gardening has costs involved as well as going to the store and spending time, gas, wear and tear on your car and the environmental impacts of driving. yes, if you get a metal raised bed your ROI is not going to be quick. #containergardening #garden #gardening #homegrown #growyourownfood #homegrowngardens
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Great job!
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Add in that you can learn how to save seeds, which will produce hardier plants in the long run and make your own compost tea from yard clippings for fertilizer. Composting in general saves money, and you can use leaves, grass clippings, and pine needles as mulch. As others have mentioned, planting directly into the ground is even cheaper. The only big expense is fencing or caging the plants to keep critters out, but those last for years, if not decades.
Spot on.
I'm convinced my in ground beds are the cheapest method of gardening.
Before I buy wood or steel for beds I'd build concrete sections and cement stakes and they would be cheaper in a 20 year investment..
M.I.Gardener does have a good price for seeds but is limited and ordered quickly because many people know about him as reasonably priced and good.Sadly he hasn't ever variety I'm repeating as I've several favorites.
Honestly I feel some people invested more in raising vegetables than they can buy them at the farmers market.
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You are 100% correct, in ground will always be the most economical option. So many ways to boarder the bed that can be very cheap if not free.
I get progressively more compost every year, I throw in cardboard etc, that helps me get more free growing medium every year
I wish we had a good source of compost here in NEO. Either bagged from big box or you have to drive forever down to Amish. Starting to make our own.
@@northeastohioveggiegarden I just collect yard debris scraps paper in those big plastic totes, cut drainage holes on the bottom. They last through the winter with the top off (Pennsylvania) I’m sure they will eventually degrade but they are only like six bucks
@@damnyankeesdaughter5427 will give that a shot.
Thanks for the reminder about composting cardboard! :) Ideally compost is supposed to be an equal mix of green (recently alive) plant matter and brown (fully dead plant matter). We've reached the point of the year where everything readily available aside from cardboard and coffee grounds is green.
@@northeastohioveggiegarden If you live in an area where people bag up yard waste for garbage pickup, take advantage of all the bagged fall leaves. Those break down to leaf mould, the richest compost you can get.
I also live in an area where people don't usually salt their sidewalks in the winter. Once or twice a year, I scoop up the plant matter that has crept onto the concrete. Usually by the time I get to it, it has already broken down to rich humus - great for the garden!