I have yet to find a completely free garden. I am sure there are plenty of resourceful people out there who garden for pennies, but I am not one of them. I never kept a complete total of how much I spend each year until now. The totals below are for vegetable and flower gardening. I like flowers. Even though I cannot eat them (except for a few), they make me smile and brighten the entire yard.
Here are the spending totals so far this year:
Seeds/bulbs/plants: $52.17
Peat moss: $17.36
Plastic trays: $16.29
Freebies: Fertilizer (AKA: horse manure), Newspaper, Ashes (from fireplace) and Potting Soil (from local tree farm)
The peat moss, horse manure, ashes, and newspaper went into improving an existing planting bed and starting a new one. The plastic trays were purchased to start all of my seeds. These are the six hole type you get when you buy plants. I have not bought anything like that in a few years. The ones I had been reusing have disintegrated. I ordered more than I needed for this year to get the best price. I will reuse these until they too disintegrate.
Total spending thus far: $85.82
Over the next few days I will share some pictures from my greenhouse and a list of what I have already planted.
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