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Creating a Beautiful Garden on a Small Budget (story 36)
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2023
- How do you create a beautiful garden on a reeally tight budget? That's what I'm trying to learn this year at the cottage!! I've been living in this tiny little home now for five months and I missed the window of time where I should have planted all my seedlings because I was still settling in and decorating indoors at the cottage. But I have sticker shock at the prices on seedlings and other gardening items this year!! So in this video, I thought I'd share some of the little ways I'm trying to develop a beautiful garden space ... without spending much money.
I would looooove to hear in the comments below all the little tricks you ladies have for saving money in the garden!! I love getting to read the suggestions here ... and I know others appreciate it so much, too.
Thank you so much for being here and watching! XOXO
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Thank you all soooo much for these amazing comments!!!!!!! I've been reading them all as they pop in and there are so many fabulous ideas that you've all shared. I definitely want to make a video and share some of these ideas with everyone so that we can all keep learning from each other. Thank you so much for being here and sharing ... I appreciate it so much!❤❤❤
Your vision is bright ⛅️ 🌻 🎨
I had a garden tea party and invited my friends-I made several kinds of herbal tea, baked scones and cookies, put out all sorts of art supplies and old flowerpots and thrifted treasures, asked my guests to bring rooted cuttings, overflow seedlings, plants from their garden that needed TLC, and one small 6-pack of flowers each as a Garden Warming Gift. I asked them to wear their “garden grubbies“, and bring sun hats and garden gloves. We planted and painted and had such fun! We had an absolute blast and now I hint to all my friends that I love plants as a hostess gift when they come for dinner. Blessings on your garden!
such a "plant-party" is discribed in the ANASTASIA books of Wladimir Megre as the wedding ceremony of our ancestors: "die WEDEN" who lived in russia and europe very long ago you need to read these book I can highly recommend them you will be enchanted : )
When we bought our house we dug perennial beds and had grand visions of gardens...but didn't have the money to spend on plants. I told everyone who would listen about our garden and several co-workers, friends, and family all offered to share plants from their gardens... all I had to do was show up and dig them up. I also happened upon several neighbors who put out free perennials at the end of their driveways in springtime when they were thinning their own gardens. Jackpot! Well, it's been 29 years since we bought our house and now, we're the ones leaving free plants at the end of driveway every spring.
My coworkers and I share plants with each other from our gardens. As plants need thinning we dig up and trade plants.
So awesome ❤
Love your giveback to the community act!
Set up a p.o box so we can all send you some seeds. Then we can watch and wait right along with you. Love & Blessings from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦💕🐾🐾
agree, I would send seeds and bulbs. I love to share from the garden.
This is such a wonderful idea.❤
When I was on a strict budget, one of the things I did is go to the local cemetery the day before they mowed the lawn. People would bring potted plants for grave sites, but the gardeners would remove them and throw them in a big pile in the woods to just discard them. I got permission to go through the big heap of discarded plants and I could take home whatever I wanted for free. Good luck with your garden this year.
My tip is to use the plastic black containers (cells) plants come in to fill the bottom of flowerpots. It provides drainage and you use less soil to fill the pots. (You often can find them in people’s recycling boxes!) Also if you use dryer sheets, you can put the used ones to use by laying them in the bottom of pots before filling with soil to help retain the soil from coming out of the bottom of the pot.
Oooh ... thank you! I love that tip about the cells in the bottom of the pots!!! That's genius!!!!!❤❤
I also break up horrible polystyrene boxes to fill the bottom of bins to creat a no bend garden.
My neighbor just told me that our Home Depot sprays a purple spot on discounted bags of compost, ect. They get marked down when there's a little hole in the bag.
If you still use coffee filters they can cover the hole in the pots also.
@@juneramirez8580 I use the mesh bags that lemons & garlic come in!
You have put so much work into the prepping of your garden. I believe you are far more patient than you give yourself credit for. So many steps to gardening, but the reward is so worth it. I love that you rescue plants and items that others consider trash. I am 65 and grew up where everyone reused everything as did our parents and generations since the beginning of time do the same. Thank you for highlighting reusing found items and recycling existing items in your home. Loving your garden and your spider plants. I know your garden will be beautiful. Love Charlie...he is so sweet...missing my 15 and a half year old Black Lab I had to leave with my son during a recent move.
Our furry loved ones, sure do love us and bring us so much joy. 💙💛💚
Aw ... I'm sorry your'e missing your fur baby! That's just so so so hard. I'm glad you know he's in good hands with your son : ) And you're so right! The reward is so great with gardening : ) Totally totally worth it!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!❤❤
My tip is to join a local gardening club. The advice from experienced members is invaluable and gardeners are truly generous in sharing cuttings and seeds. Many just give stuff away or swap it for time.
In my home town down here in New Zealand we have a thing called a 'Crop Swap' whereby you take any surplus kitchen and/or garden things you have and swap them for whatever else is there that you may need/want. It could be anything from gardening magazines, plants, seeds, baking, produce etc. It's a fortnighly thing. I've only just discovered it myself but its a great idea :) Love your videos by the way!
Hi. I love the Crop Swap idea. Great way to make and help your friends and neighbors. From Texas. 😊
That's SUCH a smart idea!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to start something like that with friends here!!! Such a great way to not waste and help others out too : )❤❤
Loveeeee this. Would be great to do at our local farmer's markets! 🤔😌
Sounds really good Kathryn l wish someone could think of that here,❤
We do the same crop and seed swap every month in Sydney with monthly permaculture meetings. I also see a lot of people doing the same on Freecycle….Zilch…..free sections of Gumtree.
Love how our Garden is coming along and delighted you got some free plants, one tip I heard was to put wind chimes in the garden as Deer are so skittish they dont like, and you can always make your own ones with old spoons and things, xxx Big Hugs Dede xxxx
Ooh ... that's a great idea! I love the sound of them myself ... so that will be really nice to add them in. Thank you!❤❤
@@littlebohocottage I love this diy idea! Sea shells make a lovely sound when they click together in a wind chime. Im sure you would make a very lovely one!!!
Plant and seed swaps are helpful! Clearance plants are almost always worth $1. My library has a seed library and you can get seeds from it.
Oh wow ... that's amazing! I'll have to look into my local library and see if they do anything like that. Thank you!!❤❤
For me saving money in the garden is to have a plant exchange with friends and neighbours. All you need is a place to gather, ice tea, wine, dessert hosted in a garden. Lots of fun, you bring as many plants as guests so everyone gets one of each if they choose. I found that gardeners love to share and bring more then asked. I have ended up with a surplus of plants!
Tip: Ask Gardner friends for clipping, bulbs, a piece of a plant, or seeds when the plant bolts or produces seeds.
Yes, it took me a year to discover my neighbors have plants and herbs enough for an army of gardeners.
Several youtubers have a "donate a coffee" option for their subscribers to buy them a coffee. Your videos touch so many people in such an uplifting and wholesome way, that maybe instead of buying you a coffee, it could be that they "buy you a plant or seeds" for your new garden as a housewarming gift since you so generously share it with all of us in your videos. Just another option that would be fun for your viewers as they would be even more connected to the garden as it develops. :)
Maybe forage for dandelions ? You can eat every part of the plant and they’re meant to be super healthy for you ! You can make dandelion tea and even syrup or wine !
Yes I must try this have lot's of dandelions in my garden .thanks great tip .
Also can make jams and dandelion honey
Ooh ... great idea!!!!! I love eating the greens ... but syrup and wine sounds like SO much fun!!!!!!! Thank you!❤❤
@@littlebohocottage also , apparently you can buy one tomato plant and then when you take the suckers off they can be regrown to make a new plant . If you eat strawberries, sweet potatoes or potatoes , I’ve heard you can plant them whole and they will grown into plants . Store bought basil can be separated into smaller plants
In Europe where I live, dandelion it is a terrible weed that is getting out of control. Not recommended in temperate climates.
Just love those little blessings! My sister calls them" God winks" so I have adopted her quote...we all need the occasional God 😉 lol
Hi again another wonderful tip of mine,is to use all your broken coffee mugs you can grow plants in them,l put my cactuses in my old mugs an make gifts for all my family and friends ❤ take care😊
Making compost, growing comfrey, and raising worms are my favourite things to do to save money. The comfrey is great for speeding up the composting process and the worms are really good at making fertiliser for the garden. Once established I have all the garden enhancements I need.
That's so smart! I need to look into the worms ... I haven't seen enough in the soil in my garden yet ... so maybe I need to become a worm mama : ) ❤❤
I wasn't aware that comfrey was good for compost but I've used ground corn meal and that brings earth worms. I also use coffee grounds, banana peels and finely crushed eggshells.
The center of toilet paper rolls is good for planting seeds
I get so excited when I see you’ve posted a video!😆
I'm the same way...I really wished she posted more...I could watch her videos all day long...Plus if she posted more, she could make money doing it...🍄
You demonstrated my personal favorite tip! Grab those deals when plants are discounted or thrown away at the store. One of my best finds was a camilia that I bought for a dollar and it lasted for over twenty years!
My tip for saving $$ in the garden is like you gather all the soil that comes with new plants, harvest seeds, and thin out bulbs and exchange with neighbors. At the end of summer I buy seeds that are discounted, usually for a dollar packet. Your garden is coming along so beautifully, in no time it will be magical, I'm sure.❤❤❤
So, this is one of the most cheap skate things I've ever thought of. Instead of buying wood chips I use the bark at the base of my trees. I cannot believe how much I have. I noticed it one day when I was watching our squirrels chase each other up, down and around our maple tree and every so often bark would fall.
🧚🏼♀️Your garden looks great already 🧚🏼♂️
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When you buy ROMAINE LETTUCE 🥬
After you cut the bottom off, 💁🏻♀️don’t toss it out!
🥬 Cut off four finger length from the bottom, PLANT IT bottom/ Stem in the dirt and LEAVE The Green Lettuce part sticking up out of the dirt. Omg it grows like crazy and so lush and delicious!
Put it in direct Sunlight 🥬🌞 and water it every day. It really is a generous vegetable!
After you pull out one to ear be sure to do the same process so you have romaine lettuce 🥬 growing continuously! It take about 3-4 weeks.
I live on an island 🏝️ with lots of salt air more difficult to grow vegetables and flowers…
However 💁🏻♀️This is my tip! 💕🧚🏼♂️🪄🥬🌞🩵🪴
Enjoy your videos very much 🙆🏻♀️💕 Thank you and Good luck 🍀 👍🏼🌻🧚🏼♀️🌼🌸🌞🧚🏼♀️🪴🪴🪴🌱🌳🌳🪻🪻🪻🪻🪻🐝🪻🪻🪻🐝🪻🪻🪻🪻🪻🪻🐝🪻🪻🪻🪻🪻🪻🐝🪻🪻💚🪻
Oooh ... I FORGOT about this! I usually grow the mesclun blends .. but I'm totally going to try some romaine lettuce this year with this method! It's like a science project with a delicious ending : ) Thank you!❤❤
Kate, I love how you repurpose things to put in your garden, the birdcage is so cute and the things you save from the trash pile. Even the unused soil from previous plants and the hollowed out logs. It's like your nature's gardener. You inspire me to be more grateful and look around and use my imagination. I live in Texas so I have to plant heat to plant plants and take advantage of shady areas in my yard. I get so excited when you have a new video to watch. You are truly a blessing of encouragement! I have a lil' four year old Shih tzu named Monet. Please tell Charlie she said hi! 😊
Hi Vivian and Monet : ) Thank you for those kind words! I'm so glad you enjoy the videos!!!! And I hope you enjoy all the little shady patches of your garden this summer : ) ❤❤
Kate, reading some of these comments tells me you are loved. May this love heal your soul and make you whole. Bless you, dear one. Stay strong.❤
You are such an INSPIRATION!!!
I have a sweet little cottage and I am trying to establish some beautiful little gardens to enjoy. I have let others know my plans and......YES!!!
I have been given so many wonderful plants!!!! I love how you stay true to yourself and make things work without overspending....
Thank you for being my inspiration 😊
I look forward to every video!
Your place is so pretty! The only things I do to save a buck is let everyone know I want their thinned out plants. I save seeds and bring stuff in from the woods as well. Luckily my place is backed onto a forest. I divide a lot of things too. I have an acre, so there’s no way I could do this from a nursery. But I do allow myself a few things every year. I also grab perennials from the nursery at the end of the season for next to nothing. ❤
Thank you!!!! It sounds like you have an amazing yard!!!! I bet it's absolutely beautiful : )❤❤
@@littlebohocottage I’m trying. Sometimes it can be a little too much❤️
I just scored like that at my Lowes garden center. There was a man putting two racks of plants on clearance for 75% off, which thrilled me. But I noticed he had a box of all kinds of 4 inch annuals looking rather sad. I asked ,and he said he was throwing them away. Soooooooooooooooo , he gave me a whole flat!!!!! They were pink and the palest yellow. I took them home... watered them... and the next day their little faces were all smiling up at the sun!!!! Just needed some love! SCORE!!!! I always check the clearance rack first. The cost of plants are out of control this year. I also save soil from pots and plantings and keep it in a covered bucket with a lid I got at Lowes. I keep a large plastic scoop inside . And recently there were 5 bags for $10.00 of Miracle Grow potting soil because someone had partially sliced the bags so couldn't be sold like new. Yeahhhhh... my lucky day! Your garden being surrounded by that standing of tall trees is everything. I love it. It feels like an intimate garden . The morning glory would be glorious on the metal arch... also if you can find a climbing rose on clearance of course!!!!! Just get one started while the morning glories are taking hold. Defintly
Good morning! I am in awe...at almost 75,I am watching you , wishing I could start over. I have had many gardens over my lifetime.Some were huge food, flowers,some just flowers,all unique. Now in Florida, itsall different.Started over 2 times after hurricane trashed all that was in ground.Costly forsure.. This year is sad😢 Hubby is very I'll, still working,but I am not. I just am so overwhelmed. Anyways,one does what you did. Yoj go right on doing the forging,& watering, making it cozy, cute. Get some pretty lights, make a little sitting area.I have no doubt you will have a wonderful space in no time🙏🤗💞⚘🌸🌴🌞☮💫
Love the tip of catching the garden centers throwing out "undesirable" plants. Poor little things deserve a chance! And what a bargain! I'll have to try to do that. Thanks! Happy gardening!
I just Love your free thinking and free living and simply FREE feeling of your spring garden! Just seeing how you go about bringing such wonderful beauty into your yard is inspiring! I live in a Brooklyn coop on the sixth floor, but we have an oh so sweet courtyard and though there is a garden committee that plants several different herbs and tends to them, Im going to contribute some little planters and get some flowers that are already in their little pots ( I think I can find some sun worshipping marigolds, zinnias and petunias) to have some color back there. I loved the feeling of your signs, so charming and relaxed and happy to not have to be formal and perfect. I love the underlying message of your garden, so full of joy and relaxed form and creative energy. Thank you for totally inspiring my mental garden within as well as my stepping forward to bring some colorful joy to our outdoor courtyard garden. You are are a big blessing to all of us. Thank you! 🌷🌸🌼🙏
Aw, thank you for such a lovely comment! I don't know what it is about little city courtyard gardens that I love SOOOOO much ... they just feel extra special since they're tucked away in a busy city! I hope you make for yourself a perfect little retreat there : ) And I'm guessing you maybe don't have to worry about deer and ground hogs?? Have a great weekend!❤❤
@@littlebohocottage I hear ya, and do agree, little city gardens are so very sweet because they somehow counteract the concrete wedges all around us. But you’re right, no groundhogs or deer here. ☺️ Im going to get my garden ( tiny garden- tiny home) in place and we’ll see what my neighbors think, Im sure that they will love the color. And thank you, our summer warm weather continues so it should be a wonderful weekend just to be outside, that’s the best! Enjoy yours, and thanks again for your upstate boho cottage joy!
May is definitely NOT too late to plant food. Seed potatoes for a fall crop, bush or pole beans, squash, watermelon babies, cucumbers, even little tomato plants! I'm still planting squash and corn and beans. Last year I didn't get my (new) garden in until June, and I had lots of veggies. Don't give up: seeds are cheap!
Thankful you saved the plants from going in the trash! Oh the waste...of our food supply and EVERYTHING! It saddens me. Love your videos. ❤️💖❤️💖❤️💖
I know this is an older video but my favorite tip is to propagate from what i already have. Its great to repeat plants in your garden so that you get a good grouping which gives you a fuller show. And of course they are free. I have cut my salvia back after blooming and stick what I've cut off in pots and most of them have rooted. You can root them in water easily as well. Then saving seed really saves money. I love my free plants! 😊
Beautiful video , I was so happy to see a new one pop up and it wasn’t disappointing as always . That was a blessing to get the plants for free , everything helps . I plant flowers that reseed themselves , collect or harvest seeds in the fall like you did with the morning glory seeds . I have four birdcages in my garden , also pot old tea pots with flowers . One of the cutest things I have seen with flowers planted in was a broken vintage purse with the metal snap closer , they left it sitting open with the flowers growing out the top of it . When my father passed away my oldest sister took his well worn work boots home and planted hens and chickens in them , so sentimental . We have to pray in the new viewers to get your numbers up so your garden can be filled with lots of what you need to have the garden of your dreams next year , everybody remember to like these videos and share them with a friend . Blessings everyone . 🎶🎶💕
I used to have lots of indoor plants like you have. When I started traveling for 6 mnths at a time I ask my girls to please come and water them, well....... I think only 2 survived and I never bothered again. But since I started to watch you and I can nolonger travel I decided to start collecting again. I'm loving it. Can't do much outside because of the intense heat but I have put a few things on the porch that has slates to make shade, we shall see how they do. Today I was at Lowe's picking some cute little bittly succulents for a gorgeous Mothers Day gift and of course I spent $45. LOL I think I will go back tomorrow to check out reduced price plants.
Your garden is going to be fabulous!!
I am in Alberta, Canada. In USDA zone 3. Many of us do not plant our gardens until the end of May. We have crops by the end of August. You are far from too late to start your garden. Also, the plants and herbs you rescued and purchased are all quick growers. You can easily start marigolds and zinnias from seeds now. The only thing in all you have that could be a little slow from seed might be the rosemary. Truly!
Rosemary seed has to be cold stratified before it will germinate.
It’s fun to find an old abandoned farm and to take cuttings from old bushes etc that can be propagated. Sometimes you can find bulbs like daffodils that are along roads and how they got there is a wonder. I used to keep a Boy Scout shovel in my trunk and I’d dig these up and add them to my garden. It’s also fun to join a gardening club… these people love to share and it’s so much fun to get and give plants thus way. Plus you remember friends via these constant reminder of them as the plants return each Spring. I also add vermiculite to my potting soil to lighten my soil and extend the soil. It’s great to start seeds in as well. I always chop up my leaves to amend my yard. I see people buying garden bags and throwing the leaves in the trash and I could cry as these leaves can reffed the tree itself. Look and buy plants that will spread. I bought a pot of blue and black salvia five years ago and now it banks one side of my house and I’ve given it to anyone who has admired it. Plus my hummingbirds and bees love it and I love to find plants for them. Happy gardening!
It breaks my heart whenever I see an abandoned farm. But your advice is appreciated.
Props to you for such effort!👍 I've always been a container gardner my whole 66 yrs. of life, but this year I used two porch posts that brother had given me when refreshing his porch and angled beside my front door to form small beds. One for bluebonnets and sunflowers in sunniest side. My morningglories in huge brass pot came up couple weeks ago and will soon stretch twine for them to climb next to my porch chair. Neighbor across from me can grow anything, and had an Indian paintbrush growing in a pot. Good golly, my Mom's field is full of those beauties. Never thought of potting them but Neighbor and I have plans to go dig some up in couple days to beautify our porches. My red geraniums are my "must" for every year and have in huge decorative planter right outside my front screened door. Love from Texas ❤
I always bring my houseplants outside for the summer. It gives my porch a nice jungle feeling. What luck you had with the 1$ plants. They will be beautiful. I love morning glories too - especially blue ones. I love your dresses 🥰
I love planting things that self sow and pop up next year in my zone 5 garden such as sweet alyssum, sunflowers, marigolds, comfrey, borage, chamomile, and cherry tomatoes. There are a lot of Amish communities in Ohio that grow flowers and veggies for sale. Their prices run 40-50% less than the big box stores.
I've had great success with the clearance plants at Home Depot. A little TLC and good drink of water is all they need in many cases. I was also shocked at the prices of starter plants this year. Your garden, cottage, little Charlie and you, are a welcome distraction from my life.💜🍃🌱🌿🐾💜 Blessings to you.
Thank you : ) I'm so glad you've been finding some clearance plants, too! You're right ... it's mostly just a little water that they need. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!❤❤
I feel like the universe is also teaching me patience as I work towards non-garden based goals in my own life. Good things take time to grow! 😊
It's sooo not easy to cultivate sometimes!!!!!! But we can do it : ) ❤❤
It's God teaching you. God created the universe & everything in it. May He bless you.
So good to see Charlie enjoying time outside...he's just lovin' life.
He's got a pretty good life : ) Especially in the summer : )❤❤
I LOVE that Yellow Dress you wore in the beginning! It looks so comfy!! 🤗 How wonderful to get all those plants for Free!! ☺️ Your Garden is coming along beautifully! 🌱🌿☘️🍀 I hope you have a beautiful weekend 🌞💖🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
Hello to you and your baby from (Michigan) my Chihuahua and me. I use a washing machine like yours in my small apartment. While raising our youngest son I hung clothes out on the line and we had a garden. I have nice memories and love your videos.
Love your garden and everything you have done and are doing to make it yours.I don't think you need any tips for saving money on anything. You definitely do know what you are doing.I have learned much from you.Thank you.Hugs.
Aw, thank you, Dorothy! It's definitely a learning process : ) Hope you have a wonderful weekend!❤❤
Ohhh!!! Sooo awesome you stopped the men at the hardware store with the plants and were blessed!! I’m in the same situation each year lately. But, OH! My heart when each little one goes into the soil! 💕
Isn't it so fun to save them?!? Some might not make it ... but most will : ) So sad that stores throw them out : ( Hope you have a great weekend!❤❤
@@littlebohocottage It is! 🥰 You as well! Hope it warms up! 💕🌸
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I have used so many black eyed Susan’s babies and like you always saving the plants that are $1.00 at garden center. Also collecting seeds and just thanking God for our garden. It’s going to be very hard for me, my mom loved our garden. We planned what new things we would do every year but unfortunately she passed away on February 28th this year. It’s been so hard going into our garden and wishing she could see the tulips she saw me planting. I wish you all a wonderful Mother’s Day. Sending many blessings your way 🌻
My mum gets free stuff from tips and repurposes them, like broken side tables, she also makes mulch from autumn leaves that have fallen 😀 . Your garden is going to be so beautiful ❤
Thank you!!!!!!!! Your mom sounds like a smart cookie : ) ❤❤
I often have saved money by purchasing flowers, veggies, and herbs from the marked-down shelves. Usually, they are just root-bound and perk right up when they can stretch out in the soil. After thinning her flower beds, my friend has also shared iris bulbs, lily of the valley, and other flowers with me. At the end of summer one year, I clipped off the heads of my zinnias, put them in a cardboard box in the garage to over-winter, and then planted them in the spring. I had the most beautiful wide, long bed of zinnias alongside my clothesline. Such a beautiful memory of hanging clothes on the line amongst my zinnias! Blessings.
Hi. Most of the plants you picked can easily be direct sown into you garden with seeds. Lettuce, cucumbers,sunflower are really easy. Zinnia you can start many dozen by direct sowing. They prefer to be planted when it’s warmer. Lettuce can be planted in part shade in the summer and fall, if you miss the spring. Melons, pumpkins direct sow in late May or June. Beans anytime. Buy, hard to start plants, herbs and tomatoes. Many plants can started in July for a fall harvest. Your money can go to bigger purchases like hydrangeas or something.
While I was collecting plants for my front yard, I found them through a variety of sources - Yard sales, Estate sales, Facebook marketplace, Craigslist, the curb, friends etc. I even collected free decorative rocks thru the same sources. My neighbor was redoing his backyard. He had boulders, which brought over and installed them for me. 😊
Ooh ... yes ... free rocks! That's a fun find ... and an even better that he brought them in for you!!!!!!!!!!❤❤
Also, saving containers from yogurt, sourcream , etc for pots its a great idea. You can use black big garbage bags to fill with soil. A few holes on the sides, a few potatoes and voila! I start composting every paper, scrap food and I have so little garbage that I should probably stop paying for garbage disposal over all. LoL.
A few potatoes in big black bags with soil will grow more potatoes?
@@jens7898 yes, xou can Google it or RUclips. Lots of options , but ofcourse it depends of your climate. Good Luck 👍
Love your handmade plant signs! To save money in the garden I save seeds, thrift pots and paint designs on any plastic containers from plants that I've purchased...I put my propagated plants in the reused painted containers and gift them 🎨🪴
I bet your pots end up looking so beautiful! It's so fun to be creative in the garden : ) Have a wonderful weekend!❤❤
I love your garden ❤️ I have friends that grow seedlings as well so we swap and also I put things in my basket at the front gate and put them on our local Facebook for free. Sometimes people will then pop something that they have grown in return. Also, our local market stalls always have good cheap plants.
I love that! I bet that exists around here ... I just haven't found it yet!! But comments like yours inspire me to keep looking!❤❤
You could organise a plant swap. That's how I find most of my garden treasures. It's been bucketing rain here in the north of France for the past two weeks. I'm longing for sunnier days to come along so that I can dry my laundry in the garden again. Thank you for your very calming and peaceful videos. I love watching them.
I definitely have to organize a plant swap!!! I hope you get some sunshine very soon so you can start enjoying spring in the garden! laundry outdoors is just such a treat : ) have a great weekend!❤❤
♥️ your sweet garden is coming along nicely, and I just know it’s going to be so pretty! 🌻I would love to have a drone, it would help so much in planning the area! My home of 20 years sold in the month of February, or I definitely would’ve taken some starts with me! I had Lily of the Valley from my little sister, Hosta from my Momma, forget me not from my oldest sister, and black eyed Susan from my middle sister. These came around every year and I loved it! 😊
Thank you!!! And yes!! You're so right ... the drone really does help me figure things out!!!! Even a super cheapie one would be great for just such a purpose. You might be able to find one for reeeeeeeally cheap at this point. Lily of the valley is so pretty ... makes for such a dreamy garden : ) ❤❤
@@littlebohocottage I’m going to look into this now! I don’t know the first thing about maneuvering one, but I think it would be fun to have 🪁😀
I’m a stealth plant snipper. I gently pick off little pieces of plants at restaurants, doctors offices traffic circles. They usually root and I have quite a collection. If I see someone working on their garden I strike up a conversation an usually come home with a sample of something!
I love how your little garden is coming along. I planted lavender this year. Just one small clump in the middle of a large pot (it was all I could afford) and it looks like it will bloom soon.
I use egg shells, coffee grounds water infused with banana peel or even just cut up banana peel to feed my garden. We also have a tiny fish pond containing 5 comets and now and then I water my plants with the pond water. It's not filtered so is full of all kinds of nutrients for plants.
Oooh ... I bet that fishy water is amazing for the plants!!!!!!! And thank you for the reminder to use my little fishy fertilizer! I have some store bought stuff, which isn't as fun as having your own fishies in the garden : ) Have a wonderful weekend!❤❤
@Little Boho Cottage Thank you! I love your free plants too! I will have to look into discounted plants and freebies.
Hi Kate! I ❤ your channel.
We grew up with very little money but my mom loved to garden. She would always restart cuttings we brought back from car trips and would use empty milk cartons to use as planting pots.
Some other things we would do …
Save marigold flower heads after they die at the end of the season because that’s where the seeds are to plant for next year. Save the seeds from your store bought organic fruits like acorn squash watermelon cantaloupe to plant.
Wild Irises have a seed pod at the end of the season to pick and save. You don’t have to dig up the tubers.
Buy bait worms to put in your flower beds to fertilize and aerate the soil.
Favorite tip(s) for saving money in the garden: ask friends for rooted starts from their herb gardens; plant organic potatoes I buy at the natural foods market (cheaper than official seed potatoes and they usually will sprout within a month, just be sure they are organic); I use free bamboo I cut from unwanted stands in neighbors' yards or along the road to make trellises; I make my own compost and potting soil (the latter from shredded composted leaves); make compost bins out of free wooden pallets and plastic zip ties (just be sure the pallets are marked HT for heat-treated rather than being treated with a wood preservative); ask arborists and the guys who cut trees for the power company for free wood chips.
Gardening can be quite expensive if you don’t think outside of the box! I’m all about clearance plants that need a little TLC, local plant swaps on Facebook, Facebook marketplace, and perennials! For free fertilizer, some rabbit people will be happy to give away their buns coco puffs (poo) which is gold and can be used in the garden right away. It also helps my compost bin in its process. Your garden is looking great, and I hope you don’t feel discouraged by the financial constraints! Your creativity will make it more beautiful than any overly curated magazine garden would look. 💜
What an enjoyable video! Thank you! I've been watching your videos on my TV for awhile & unfortunately I forget to go back on my ph and comment. You're a delight & I so enjoy all your content which you're not only very talented you have a gift of what you bring to us; relaxation, contemplation & information! I get so many ideas from you though my movement is restricted I try to find a work around (in my 70s & physically challenged the past 12 yrs). I too have a little chihuahua and love plants & flowers. With taking in a kitten last year am not able to keep any plans inside 😢. I've been trying my hand at planting from seeds & have cut plastic gallon containers along the middle almost all the way around to create tiny greenhouses, some are starting to sprout. My tiny cottage gets very little sunlight in the back being surrounded by evergreens. I plant in pots & the front gets invaded by neighbors dogs that run loose but I keep trying 😊. Thank you for brightening my days!! Have a wonderful week!! ❤
Thank you for all those kind words! I'm so glad you're finding the ways you can to enjoy your plants : ) I'm curious if your little chihuahua and your cat get along?! MY little guy doesn't know what to think of kitties ... and they definitely don't know what to think of him!!!!!! I hope you have a wonderful weekend : ) ❤❤❤❤
@@littlebohocottage yes they play together but when she sometimes claws a bit much he'll give a snarl. It took time but he now really enjoys seeing a cat on our walks.. She plays catch essentially, loves bottle tops & brings them to me will toss & she brings it back continually until I get tired. My pup does not fetch though sometimes he takes it away from her.
Your garden is coming along so well! Truly are making your house a home.
See if your County offers free mulch and compost as well as a composting container. Also, do you know about Honest Weight Co-op in Albany? They have the best locally produced garden plants at the best prices. Also, set up a take-a-plant, leave a plant with your friends. Easy to do and it’s free.
Exciting to see how your garden going to grow and develop!
Can’t you trade some spider plants against some plants you want or need? Locally of course. Good luck!🍀 💚🌿🌸
Hmm ... what a great idea! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!❤❤
Hi and Good afternoon! Another Lovely Video! Thanks for this.
My Garden tip is to let the Dandelions grow to bring in the Bees and to give them their needed nutrition! Also Dandelions are Eddible and the leaves can be used in salads which I started doing last year. With Olive Oil, Raw Wheat Germ, Tomatoes, Cukes, some Spinach it makes an Awesome Salad!
My other Tip for the Garden is to let your plants go to seed and Mother Nature will provide more Babies Plants for you too!
Two years ago I puchased 'Comfrey' from a yard sale and I left them all flower and go to seed. Well two years later and I have so so so wonderful many babies that the Bees will love (they have small purple flowers that all types of Bees just enjoy greatly).
Comfrey has deep roots and pulls nutrients from deeper in the soil and the leaves can be used as a mulch around plants. Two years ago I started putting them around my big tree in the backyard and I swear it has reaped many benifits form them.
Also, I LOVE LOVE LOVE to watch and learn from: Robbie and Gary Gardening, here on youtube. They taught me how to 'Tote Garden' and they are always showing great things in the garden.
God Bless and thanks.
Sherry :)
PS: I also have a Shop on Etsy, that has some garden related items in it, so hopefully you don't mind me placing a 'link' here to it. Thanks.
www.etsy.com/shop/RosesAndButterflies?ref=seller-platform-mcnav
Love your videos. They are so peaceful and calming. Also, I’m pretty sure I have that same birdcage that you hung in your garden with the plant in it! 🥰 love what you did with it! I might do something similar with mine! 🌱
My tip is using old coffee grounds and egg shells for fertilizer. I toast the egg shells to detour the 🦝 raccoons from eating them.
Another thing I use as mulch are my old leaves but I don't have any left this year, so I have leftover hay that I use for bedding for the feral cats I take care of. The hay was free too. 👍
It's not too late to start zucchini, bush beans and cucumbers from seed. I always start them in May in Zone 6. I enjoy watching your house and garden progress.
Hmm ... thank you! I might try them this weekend : ) ❤❤
I have caught up on watching all your videos. Such a delight. Charlie is the best puppy ever. Now, I want a ton of house plants, and a drone. I can't wait to see what you create next, and in the garden, it is going to be beautiful. I haven't used my camera in so long, but you have inspired me. I have to admit though, when you go into the water and woods alone, it makes my chin hit the floor. You are brave! Thank you for the little moments you share.
I save all last years soil and reconstitute it by adding compost and worm castings. Big savings!
Have a garden party by having friends and neighbors bring garden plants to share and swap, tools and garden decor etc. it’s fun and everyone gets new treasures including time together. 🌱🌻🌸
Love your approach to gardening! I bought a cottage with 3 gardens recently and I have a lot to do and it can be so expensive! I love finding little treasures in antique shops to give character to my gardens and I'm also seeing lots of people selling cheap or free plants on Facebook marketplace too.
Save your seeds. If you grow cherry, grape or plum tomatoes, put one or two aside that you are not going to eat. Let it dry out over the winter. On a window sill or on a table inside getting sun. By spring they look like sundried tomatoes( without the olive oil) .Put the entire shriveled up tomato in a pot. You will get a lot of tiny seedling. Thin them out , put them in own small pot and plant I. Your garden when they are big and healthy enough.
I love your garden and your home....I belong to a face book local garden exchange....someone will have something I would like to have and if I have a cutting of something we trade....So next Spring start your seedlings early and maybe you can belong to an exchange its so much fun ...Save the containers your eggs come in and start seedlings in, if they are the cardboard type its easy to cut a few off to give away or exchange
Sharing/ swapping seeds, bulbs, n cuttings with Ur neighbors, that's how I got into gardening, thanks to Her I learned to enjoy it even though my allergies go crazy...miss her cilantro n tomatoes best flavor 😉
I'm loving your ideas of saving $$ while you garden - I go to the garden store - I want one of each(lol) - in my head I choose plants to create window box arrangements and place them in my cart, I get a headache as I add up the prices - finances make it hard - I have garden goals but little by little, each year, I add more sections - I have kind friends who share, I've learned to get seeds, be diligent with watering, to help keep cost down - actually seed planting can be rewarding🤷 when it's a success! Each year I add as many perennials as I can and hope they return, for me, the next year! Blessings to you and Charlie, brings me joy to see you enjoying time in the garden! 👍👏😊💕
Your garden will be enchanting. I can't wait to see it all bloom. Have a great weekend. Blessings - Judith 🎭🎵
Thank you, Judith! You, too!!❤❤
Your cottage is lovely, inside and outside! I too look for plants that are on sale, and also look for any roadside stands or yard sales that might have something. It's part of the fun of creating a special and unique outdoor room! I love how you reuse and roadside thrift. :D Thank you for sharing!!
11:11 it is not too late for many things! Whether it's flowers or food, they'll catch up, unless they need a really long growing period, like pumpkin or watermelon, even those you should have time for! 👍👍
Perennials and seed starting even direct sowing, then move them around, and bulbs that return-year after year. Last year was my first year to start seeds, so satisfying. GOD IS GOOD!
One of my joys in this life is the challenge of getting last years harvested seeds to bloom this season. I've had especially good luck with Morning Glories! I adore them! They, too, are an absolute favorite.
Kate, I just love you! Your life mirrors me in so many ways. You are my favorite person to watch! I love to garden, and have to be creative. I am all older than you, so I grow garden in pots now. I cut potatoes into chunks an plant once the have eyes. Also the stalk of celery, pepper seeds,, etcetera. I shop for groceries once a month, and two weeks later I go through my crisper, and see what is wilting some then I make use of it before I lose it. I throw much of it together, and pickle it. I also recycle things that seem to far gone to consume, and plant them. Unfortunately this does not work for icecream. Lol! Back to gardening this way. I may or may not end up with something edible, but it will create some beautiful leafy plants!
Wow you've done so much work in your garden it already looks beautiful and i can't wait to see the morning glory growing around the hoop . Feel sure you and Charlie are going to be real happy there ..... my tip for the garden is to take a small pair of snippers and take cuttings off lot's of plant's that you find on a walk or perhaps from your neighbours gardens ..... you then have lot's of free plant's . Sending many blessings to you both ❤❤❤
Herbs and tomatoes are my favorite things to grow in the summer. So many things can be grown from grocery store food.
When I walk my dogs I carry my clippers. I snip cuttings everywhere to try to grow at home. If I see something fabulous in someone's yard I go knock on the door and ask permission to take a cutting. People have even dug up plants that needed thinning for me!! I've had great luck starting hydrangeas and even roses. I just snipped some blackberry new-growth cuttings and they have roots right away. Invasive species I always grow in containers
Tips for cheap ways to grow a garden - start a compost heap (you have the materials - leaves and house discards from vegetables) then you never have to buy soil; join a local seed exchange; plant seeds (not sure why you say you are too late to plant seeds, as zone 7b is just planting now); exchange your basil, that you are allergic to, for another plant from a friend or neighbor (people are almost always willing to share extra plants); use logs or rocks for a raised garden.
The best compost was the one I stared in rubbermaid plastic storage container aka tub. Using fall leaves and kitchen scraps. I started it in the fall and used it at planting time.
I am so glad I found your channel! I luv everything you share. I just luv your thankfulness. Your little cottage is adorable and precious, Your garden is wonderful! Sending love and lots of joy your way,
I love how you garden in your dresses. My mother always wore dresses, in the garden and everywhere.
I love how you are recycling things, and finding bargain plants, and giving them a new life! I love the fact that you can use those beautiful tree stumps, and tree trunks to plant things in, they are so natural. Someone mentioned wind charms to scare the deer off your plants, you could also hang old cds from sticks, but do not string along, like a washing line, as they could injure themselves on the string, by running into it! They catch the light and move around, so scare off birds and deer. I love the idea of you tie dying those comforters, love tie dye clothes too! Charlie is loving being out with you in the garden, and enjoying the fresh air. My rescue greyhound Madge has a raised bed, that I put a towel on, and she loves sleeping on it outside, coming in when she gets too hot - I keep an eye on her to make sure she does not overheat too. It is just starting to get warm enough in West Devon, to sit outside for a bit! We have had so much rain, but still have a hose pipe ban here! Everything seems to have grown much later this year here. I wish you good growing in your garden. xxx
This year there was no money for seeds or plants. So I used all the seeds I have been saving the last couple years. I save flowers seeds Zinnias are so easy to save. Winter squash and other things. I have crammed my garden space with items I had seeds for and didn't stress over not having a huge variety. It's ok sometimes the basics is just what is needed and going to the garden every morning is a joy. Don't stress not having a wide variety keep to the basics and love those plants.
Tip for saving in the garden -- start with seeds. Start them inside and then move them outside. Some will make it and some won't but it is nice to see growth emerge from a seed. Much cheaper.
Sharing seeds with friends! Also, one of my friend loves to start her seeds in the winter, so I contribute to the seed purchase and she starts them for me! ❤. I know your garden will be beautiful.
How beautiful your garden is becoming!🌻 I very much agree on the use of plants/things that should be thrown away, it takes more time and creativity, but the final satisfaction is unmatched!
Just a tip: mint is a infesting plant, better to plant it alone, otherwise the others will be 'eat'. Have a wonderful day💖🌈✨🧚🏼♂️
Lavender cuttings from a bought mature plant will grow especially fast😊I always try to rescue plants from stores that are either reduced in price or being thrown out, they have repaid me well too! Get together with friends, neighbours and decide the seeds needed in the group, each person buys specific ones and then share with one another. Look super close at plants for sale, very often you will find pots with more than just the one plant in😉Collect seeds and cuttings when out walking in your area, take a small plastic baggie to pop cuttings in and keep sealed until home. Buying plants that have already flowered and had their season is a very cheap way to fill a garden too, patience will be rewarded...in 12 months time😆worth while doing it though.🥰
I love how appreciative of everything you are! It brings things into perspective. You speak from such a gentle soul.
My favorite was your cute little signs u make and paint with little pieces u find
Your garden is going to be beautiful, and I am so thankful you were blessed with the plants for free!! You deserve it so much. I do not have money for gardening this year, being newly retired, so I have been really being creative this year as well. I went to a sale put on by a local herb group, thinking the plants would have more of a chance of being discounted...no such luck. They were the same high price as store prices. Ridiculous prices...growing from seed is cheaper but I couldn't get to that this year either. I can't wait to see your garden grow, thanks for sharing.
Oh I cant wait to see your garden! I cant wait to see the transformation! Hugs! from Mary Ann (your fellow Delawarean) 🤗🌺🌼🌻🌹
We repurpose as much as possible to make our garden beds. We compost. And when making a new bed for plants we don't till we build up using cardboard, food waste, yard waste. Do several layers of this. Water and it starts to break down and the worms do arrive. I think it's called lasagna gardening. And my husband will put dirt on top of that. Yes it's a slower process not always pretty but the end result is worth it. Happy gardening. It's so healing
I do the same thing with my leftover dirt-as long as a plant wasn't sickly, I reuse and add my compost to it. This was so inspiring because, we are in a tight financial spot, but I want to have my huge garden to eat & enjoy. Thank you so much for all your tips, love the signs- I want some too! xo