Gardeners: What do you really save by gardening? Community Project!

[way2gomom]

We had salads from the garden for Memorial Day. I lucked out this year with a coupon for seeds and my compost pile has been fantastic, so I'm at $15 and my garden is half of my backyard. I'll be canning my harvest this year, so the savings will keep on rolling. I will check out the other site you mentioned, I haven't heard of it before but it sounds right up my alley!

 

[ncchixlady]

I hit the motherload of free stuff this year: a gentleman tilled my garden for free, a free truckload of manure, free leaves for mulching and rows, 8 free thornless blackberry bushes, 2 free blueberry bushes, free tomato plants, free materials to make my compost barrel set up, free concrete blocks and edging, free plastic pots to pant starts in.... Craigslist and Freecycle have been good to me this spring.

I bought more blueberry, raspberry, and strawberry plants... tomatoes, zucchini, squash, cukes, eggplant, onion sets, peppers, grape vines, okra and some herb plants and seeds. Had to buy a few bags of topsoil as well as fertilizer and stakes and ties for the tomato plants. I have spent $51 so far and have a 36x18 tilled garden area that is full, a 2x5 raised bed for strawberries, a 3 ft round asparagus bed as well as all the spaces for the berry bushes/vines. Baby tomatoes, squash and eggplant are startiing to make a showing and I am excited to see how much we can produce on that little sectionof our yard!

 

[math ace]

WOW - - That was a LOT of FREE stuff. Great Job. . . .

I am looking for CBS blocks now ! !

 

[vfem]

You guys know how to work the system... free is the BEST... trade is great too!!

I made a spread sheet on Google Doc you all can view and see how I'm doing. You can make one and upload it for free.

Garden Spreadsheet 2010 Fogl's Kitchen

 

[Acre of Blessings]

So far we have gathered 3 five gallon buckets of green beans, 15 zuchinni, about 3 gallons of Strawberries, several radishes, about 50 green onions (if not more) 5 heads of cabbage and about 20 lbs of red potatoes.


Now we need to pray for rain.

 

[vfem]

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Well wow... you know what the value on those weights/amounts are for your area right now? Are you selling or storing?

...its like 100 degrees today... but we've had more rain then we can handle lately. The pond is super full and its about time hubby and I invested in a pump system and start watering the gardens from the pond rather then the city water from the house!

 

[vfem]

Wow... people over at TEG are posting a TON of production in their gardens. I am about to weight my first harvest of Tomatoes... though they don't look so good, cracked and suffering from mildew and harsh winds.

Haven't broken even with my prices though. Getting closer.