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Here are a few ways to get some free compost for your garden. Make your own! You can do this a couple ways. You can start a compost pile in your backyard. You can dig holes directly in your garden area and dump the days compost in and cover it up.
You can make a worm-composter to keep under the sink. Chopped leaves are a great source of nutrients as well. Use the same ideas I shared above to find a free source of leaves. Use Freecycle, Craigslist or call around to some local farms to find used hay from barn bedding or manure from animals.
Many times if you come and load the manure yourself you can get it for free. This can be a major expense, especially if you want special varieties but if you plan smart and think ahead you can get many of the seeds you need for little or no money.
Join a seed exchange. Save seeds from the organic produce you already buy. You can save seeds from most anything you buy from the grocery store- melons, squash, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers. Get a hold of last years seeds. Most stores that sell seeds will only sell the current years seeds.
Many things can be hard to start from seed, especially for a beginning gardener. But here are a couple of ways you might be able to get some already started plants for free.
Just like the seeds, stores tend to throw out plants when they are starting to look a bit old and wilted. was restocking the seedlings and managed to get about 50 sweet potato seedlings and 50 zucchini plants completely for free.
Barter with your gardening friends. If you have a friend who starts their own seeds see if they would be willing to make a deal with you- offer up a service from you in exchange for the started plants. Here again you can use your organic store bought food as plant starts- regrow onions from the cut off root tips or plant the ends of your celery.
You can re-grow potatoes from the older potatoes with eyes or sprout your sweet potato in water and pinch of the slips to grow. Check out my Yearly Garden Planner to help you keep track of everything in your garden- from seed inventory to pests and disease. Keeping good records is the key to successful gardening year after year!
Certain plants are very easy to propagate by taking cuttings off of a parent plant. Plants such as blackberries and raspberries put up new shoots and suckers from their roots that are easily transplanted.
Strawberries put off runners each year which will root and can be moved to a new location. Many perennial herbs such as rosemary will root in water. So how can you get some of these plants for free?
Ask your neighbors and friends who garden. Sometimes a berry patch can get overrun with suckers and shoots. See if you can dig some up for yourself. Use the wild plants around you. If you have a patch of wild blackberries or wineberries in your yard, dig up shoots and propagate more in your garden.
You can even take suckers off of tomato plants and root them in moist soil. They will grow in to new, fruit bearing plants. There are many options when it comes to starting your seeds, and it can get expensive if you are buying peat pellets, peat pots or other containers in which to grow your seeds.
But if you want it for free, use what you already have! Use your recyclables! Yogurt cups and containers make great planters, as do milk cartons or cut-off jugs.
You can poke a few holes in the bottoms to help with drainage and then just fill with soil and plant your seeds! You can also use egg cartons or clementine orange boxes filled with soil.
Make seed starting pots using recycled newspaper. See my post on 20 Frugal Re-purposed Seed Starting Containers for more ideas. Bamboo is very useful in the garden and can be used for staking tomatoes, vertically growing cucumbers or peas, or to make a fun tipi or tunnel of pole beans.
Again, check out Freecycle or Craigslist. Bamboo plots tend to outgrow their desired space and often you can find people who just want to get rid of the stuff, especially if you come and cut it!
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After all, goal with out a plan is just a dream! Similar to bamboo, recycled wooden pallets can be a wonderful resource to your garden. You can make fences, a compost bin, or a trellis out of them. You can even fill them with soil for a vertical wall of herbs or greens.
Where can you get them? Check your local feed store. Do you have a local brewery? They are also known to have many extra pallets to share. Keep your eyes opened when driving around town. Many places will leave pallets out back by the dumpsters or on the side of the road for pick up.
Tools are probably thought of to be the biggest expense in gardening. A tiller, shovels, trowels, hoes, rakes.
There is so much you need. But guess what? If you plan ahead and mulch heavily with newspaper, compost and other green materials such as clippings or leaves, the grass and weeds should be dead by planting time the following spring. You can plant directly into your composting mulch without tilling at all.
This is also much better for the soil! Use your most useful tool- your hands! Use your hands to part the soil to drop the seeds in and pull up those weeds using good old fashioned muscle power!
Use what you already have. I spent many years planting with a spoon from my kitchen. It worked just as well as a little hand shovel. If you find there is a tool you really need try and borrow it from a friend or neighbor. Barter for the use of a tiller. And one last time, use the free stuff offered by others on Freecycle or Craigslist.
Post what you need and someone might have one they no longer need hanging around! So there you go. How do you cut costs when it comes to gardening? Totally agree with you! I only use my hand shovel and garden gloves on a regular bases.
I get both for about a dollar at Dollorama. Some tools can be purchased at garage sales, too. Such an interesting blog, Sarah, thank you! I only use egg shells to plant my vegetable seeds. I save them for the year and in April I have all I need.
I do boil them for a short time and put a hole in the bottom but then they are ready to go. Also, an excellent source of nitrogen. Love this post! Only be very careful about 7, bamboo can show up on the wrong side of the neighbors fence on the opposite side of the yard from where you planted it!
As for tools, I have one more suggestion, if you use the plastic milk jugs, then when the milk is gone, rinse it out and cut out a shovel opposite from the handle. Great suggestion about the shovel!
With the bamboo, I mean just to cut the stalks and use them for staking and supporting plants, not actually planting it.
It can get everywhere! Do you mean Japanese knot-weed sticks? No, real bamboo. Or a certain kind of it. I have a post on my personal blog about our trip to cut the bamboo. Please, please, please stay clear of Japanese knotweed. I live in the UK and it was introduced a couple of hundred years ago.
It will grow everywhere and outcompete all other plants, it is a total nuisance. The Environment Agency in the UK has a page about it link below and if you see it you are supposed to report it to them so they can get rid of it.
The knotweed is crazy invasive and takes an axe to cut the bases… it attracts Japanese beetles and they eat absolutely everything in sight. You can prevent the roots of bamboo from spreading by planting it in a bed with a wall of flashing buried about inches deep.
This will keep the roots contained and make controlling it a lot easier than just planting it. I made the mistake of planting bamboo grass that was advertised not to spread but now it is all over my yard and spreading and replacing my lawn.
Round up will not kill the stuff. Burning will not kill it either. So be careful what you plant. Happy Gardening. I know it can take over, that is why I mentioned it is easy to get for free and use not plant the canes in the garden for vertical growth of many vegetables.
Thanks for your comment! yummy yummy. Wow…one suggestion about using Cut, Non growing bamboo in your garden. How did such an Obvious and Clear suggestion get So misunderstood. But just so You, Sarah, know. The suggestion was very clear.
Thank you for the suggestion, it Is a good one👍. How do you cut up the newspapers as mulch? In strips, shredded, pieces? You want to use them as sheet mulch. Get few layers of newspaper wet and lay them down flat. You will have to have some sort of material to place on top to hold them down like grass, leaves or wood chips.
By the time the newspaper decomposes the weeds will have been choked out. Nice to have it all in one place…thank you!! Great post! My brother mulched his garden with ragweed! It helped keep this allergy-triggering plant under control, as well as nourishing his garden.
Very interesting about the ragweed! Thanks for sharing! Vegetarian animals manure can be composted or turned into the garden just fine. This year will be different. I will have to get the mulch done and ready for the Fall. Well after I get my Fall garden done.
I know some people need gloves. Personally I have tried, but I throw them off, I like the feel of the soil much better! Something very soothing about getting your hands in rich garden soil.
I feel the same! There is something about getting your hands in the soil. Something natural that I just love. Parasites that will produce diarrhea in your canine bc they live in their digestive tracts. But with humans, apparently they live in weird places in our bodies. This freaks me out a little, how do you know if you pick up a parasite like that?
But that never lasts. If so what do you do? But this is a concern, is it a silly one? When it comes time to plant, you just crack the shell around the roots and plant the whole thing.
Very informative! Thanks for sharing over at the Homeacre Hop! Please join us again soon! Mary :. Wonderful, informative gardening tips — we have a pile of ground tree, but I was hesitant to use as mulch.
I am delighted that you shared with Home and Garden Thursday, Kathy. It will steal nitrogen from the soil if it is dug in, but not as a mulch. So be sure to move it aside to plant seeds and push back in place as they grow.
Thanks for stopping by! Love your ideas. Also, plant stores are always throwing out pots. So if need huge ones for potatoes, etc, you can get them for free.
As for pallet gardening, I would be concerned about using them for food plants since the pallets could have some nasty chemicals in them. Look for the letters HT on your pallets. That means they have been heat treated rather than chemically treated and can be used in the garden. Great information.
Does anyone know where to go for free gardening decorative brick type stuff to put around trees, etc. Very helpful post — thanks for sharing with our readers.
You just got featured so please do come and grab your button. This was such a detailed post, I know it will be really useful for many gardeners and frugal living fans. Awesome tips. Followed you from the Homestead Barn Hop. Love for you to come by Wildcrafting Wednesday and share. These are some great tips!
I miss having a big yard with a garden and compose. I do mulch my flower beds and small garden area. It really does help. Thanks for sharing your wonderful tips. store They make great little hot houses. What a great list of ideas! And we accumulate a lot at our house. Anybody have any thoughts or experience on this?
Lookup lasanga gardening. Uses paper or cardboard, leaves, cutting. No weeds and no digging. You can save TP or paper towel tubes to start seeds in. I am flattening my tubes as I plan to square them up to conserve space, starting my plants in bakery box greenhouses with old aquarium gravel under the upright tubes full of dirt.
You can plant the moist, decomposing cardboard tubes, splitting if needed. You can cover a garden with black yard bags to kill weeds, too. Then you put them away to reuse. You may want to check on newspaper, most has soy based ink now, which is from GMO soy…..
may not be the best for the garden. If it is not soy based, then it is usually petroleum based, which could also pose risks for garden contamination. We use eggshells to plant seedlings in often, then transplant right in the shell, cracking the bottom to let roots grow through. I would expect the decomposition process to break all those proteins downs.
Even GMOs are carbon-based organisms which are going to break down. Around my city we have lots of trees being cut down and mulched because of emerald ash borer bug infestation…. my question is can this mulch be used on gardens or not? I am not sure of the likeliness of transporting the borer through the woodchips.
My gut would tell me to steer clear, especially if you have an infestation in your area. Wood chips are problematic as mulch, robbing the soil of nitrogen, attracting termites, spreading ash borers or other pests.
Leaves should be shredded first. Manure should be aged before being used in the garden. Wineberries are exotic invasives that disrupt the ecosystem.
Bamboo is even worse. Yes leaves should be shredded and manure aged- though I use alpaca and rabbit manures fresh with no problems. We have winberries growing wild around here, along with wild blackberries- sure they can get out of control but if we cultivate them carefully we can control their growth.
I never leave it in year round and remove and store it after each use. Thanks for reading and commenting!
If we all started harvesting these invasive bamboo patches, and other plants that have already become invasive, then we might get the invasions under control.
There is a group of young people who are harvesting invasive Elaeagnus autumn olive, autumnberry in the midwest, using the delicious and nutrition-rich berries rich in lycopene to make products they can sell, and then using the branches of the shrub to build permaculture gardens.
Guess what, those berries will not be spread by birds to reproduce further. I love how MrBrownThumb used toilet paper tubes for seedlings. Many counties offer free compost at the local landfill or mulch where they are trimming trees.
You can also learn to make your own compost pile. Instead of renting or purchasing an expensive machine on your own, go in with a neighbor or friend and split the cost.
My next-door neighbor and I agreed to re-sod our front lawns at the same time, so we split the cost of renting a tiller, got a better deal on supplies by buying in larger quantity, and split the work. We also have complimentary tools—shovels, wheelbarrow, etc.
Look for local seed or plant exchange programs where gardeners gather to swap their surplus seeds, seedlings, or plants. Before buying, think about how you make your own for a lot less. the money. For example, you can make a rain barrel which will save you money on water, or you can make cute garden markers instead of buying them.
With a bit of creativity and resourcefulness, you can find affordable or even free supplies to help you get started or expand your garden. Update Your Old Shower and Tub on a Budget. Find out how to Get Gardening Supplies for Free or Cheap.
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Newbie mistake. This comment has the right URL and of course the link to the post itself is correct. Gina, those are GREAT ideas!
I just posted a blog post about gardening freebies yesterday and thought afterwards that I should have included links on how to make a rain barrel, etc. I think your post complements mine nicely and I linked to it. I hope you don't mind!
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