How To Save Money Home Gardening Tips For Beginners
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Vegetable gardening is no longer just a passion. Veggie gardening has turned into a clever and healthier approach to help deal with flucutations in the economy and to combat the rising cost of living.
It wasn’t long ago we went through a recession here in Canada which made it tough to make ends meet. We were so grateful that we had started learning about vegetable gardening as it has saved us a lot of money on the grocery bills. More and more each year as we increase the size of our vegetable garden.
We Got Our Friends And Neighbours Involved
It’s wonderful having vegetable gardening friends who bring fresh vegetables right to our front door. Barb, one of my guitar playing friends would even bring over extra preserves she made herself. Mmmm, so good.
Now we share vegetables we can consume fast enough, although this year we are planning to have Barb show us how to preserve vegetables for the winter.
Grow Things That Are Easy To Grow
Our first vegetable garden was a container garden as we didn’t have permission or space to dig up in the yard we rented.
When we started growing tomatoes in containers we really didn’t realize how many tomatoes we would produce. So many we had to give most of them away before they spoiled.
We were definitely saving some money on the grocery bills by growing our own produce but it gets better. The following year we got together with a few friends and planned how we could benefit each other.
What did we do? Well each of us grew things we could share with each other but we grew different things. Friend one would grow buckets of tomatoes in a variety of kinds and another would grow something different we could all share.
It’s amazing just how much produce we had that we didn’t even grow and still saved on the grocery bills.
This year my wife and I are growing tomatoes in abundance, enough to share but also enough to keep for preserves next winter. Tomatoes are a big part of our diet as we put tomatoes in everything, pretty much.
We learned that we don’t want squash in our main vegetable garden as they tend to grow through everything else so we created a new location for squash and we’re growing enough to share with our team.
Take your time learning about vegetable gardening and you can start saving money every year just like we are doing with our vegetable gardening experience.
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I wrestle with what to grow. Balancing limited space and time with our ability and inclination (or, lack thereof) to can or preserve what we’ve grown -turns out to be our greatest challenge.
We’ve always grown tomatoes and I question the reason why. I think the only reason is: we’ve always done it.
Logic would dictate that tomatoes are so inexpensive when in season locally that I should be able to purchase bushels of them for little money from the local farmer.
I have thought that (what we decide to grow) should be items we can’t get locally. So far we haven’t acted upon it. Maybe next year.
Dave Christensen
HomeandGarden911.com
Hello again Dave
I remember how much canning my foster mother used to do when I was living on a farm in Ontario. Huge amounts and the key as far as she was concerned was quality jars that kept a good seal and boiling them really good before using them.
We are starting small and if that goes well I’m the type of guy that will go nuts with it.
As a retired teacher of many years —–I tried to instil a love of gardening in my pupils. Many parents made their first efforts at vegetable growing. Their BIG problem was STEP two!——-what to do when the tiny seedlings appear. —or when the early potato shoots appeared etc. Many gardening programs show STEP ONE and perhaps STEP SIX!!!!!!!!
I grew up in a farming community in Ontario and never had any teachers that did gardening or if they did they never shared it. The school was bare all the way around, not a plant to be seen.
So glad to hear you shared Irene.