Gardening doesn’t have to be a money sink! Here is how we grow our own food, and save money while doing it. Click “see more” for links & more resources!
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0:00-0:56 – Intro
0:57-1:58 – Cost Effective Crops
1:59-4:33 – Compost
4:34-6:28 – Drip Irrigation
6:29-9:22 – In-Ground Beds
9:23-11:35 – Grow What You Can Handle
11:36-12:20 – Final Thoughts
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37 Comments
Do you have any chick videos in the making??? I love your channel :)))))))))))
I've got a tumbling composter! I just keep forgetting that I have it and throw veggie trash into the trash bin way too often 🙁 Starting to get used to using it.
As the veggie grower in the team, I'm a frugal gardener that plants in-ground. My wife prefers containers for her herbs and flowers. I can't tell you the irony I feel when I purchase bags of dirt and take them home to my 100 acre farm. Although, I must say, she grows some beautiful herbs. I never mention the added cost of the dirt for fear she'll point out the expense of my woven weed fabric and drip irrigation system. Thank you for the videos. We enjoy watching them.
Hi,I'm just new to your channel and as I watched,I like it and I agree with you.We have to plant our food and that way,we can save a lot of money.I have a mini garden and I inviting you to visit and see what I have on my garden.Thanks and stay safe.
Chip Drop!
In the city people bag up leaves etc… free compost.
I used 192 bags of leaves last year from the neighborhood in my small garden. Great $ saver.
Great video !
A caveat regarding drip irrigation- this tends to not work long term for folks with hard water. The holes are so small, they clog fast if your water has a high mineral content.
Good tips. I'm new and I'll check out the drip tubing for next year.
So excited for the compost aspect of chickens! How do you store the composted bedding before needing to use it? I just got a chicken coop, and plan to get chickens in a month or two once we are back from traveling and get it all set up.
I grow everything in ground I have a small greenhouse I start my own plants that saves a lot of money
Good tips…I plant in the ground too!
My husband is a retired Landscape Architect. He installed our drip irrigation. What a difference it makes!
Loved these tips! Thanks girl! 🙌💕
Wow such an awesome video filled with SO MUCH helpful information! And what a cutie pie you are! HOW FUN!!!
I just HAD to subscribe to you. . . your personality alone is so infectious! So happy I found your channel : ) I garden in California zone 9b and try to garden on a budget every day!
"Opportunities don't happen, you create them." —Chris Grosser
For desert gardening ollas are supposed to be really good.
I'm doing a wicking bed this year. But, yes, a wicking bed does cost extra $$ when starting out. But since I'm gardening over the septic tank I think it is worth it.
Great upload 👌
Another thing that I recommend about growing things that you don’t eat roast things that you don’t eat but your chickens well or other animals that you may have
Some of my raised beds are just made with fallen logs that aren't suitable for the wood fire. The beds are first covered in cardboard and then layered with fallen leaves, lawn clippings, spent pot and grow bag soil, whatever I have around really. I then just give them a top dressing of home made compost. I also have some old round galvanised iron water tanks that I filled using the Hügelkultur method.
Great Video but I am 70yrs old & yes we planted into the soil- but !!! there are ways of "Not Digging into the Soil" that really makes gardening a pleasure & guess what – NO WEEDS. Could you all have a look at Charles Dowding No Dig gardening & you will never look back. Cheers Denise- Australia
I’ve been making my own compost since we purchased our home (in an HOA) three years ago. We live on a clay and rock hill, nothing would grow in the ground, so I built compost piles and grew in them. When the season was over, I spread the compost over the lawn where I wanted to garden the following year. I move the next compost pile over another clay area and repeat the process. I have MILLIONS of worms in those piles and in my four raised beds.
I built the raised beds with scrap lumber and filled it with hugelkulter and sheet composting. They’re growing so much right now, I can’t even see the soil.
Being in an HOA, I can’t have chickens so their benefit can never be realized, so I allow myself to purchase that as necessary.
I use pots where ever possible, and when I ran out of pots this year, I switched to cardboard boxes. Sure, it looks weird, but they will break down over the season, and they have enabled me to grow things like potatoes with ease. Also, my garden is so full, you can’t even see the boxes now.
I also learned everything I know about gardening from YT and my local library. Free education is invaluable.
Have you made plans in case fertilizer becomes unavailable?
Nuther great vid
Great tips, love your channel!
I have terracotta watering pikes in my growbags. I think I'ma have to use a composter I been getting around with tea but idt it's enough
Wow I can't get away from how beautiful you are mmmm
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Thankyou so much for all your tips and tricks with chooks, garden beds and compost…. I have started my veggie beds, have a worm farm and just acquired two pullets, 10-12 weeks old Henny and Penny and I love them as much as I love my dog…. cheers from Australia
I buy most of my accessories and garden pots in garage sales. I pay next to nothing compare to brand new in stores
Awesome video!
It goes a bit against your "plant in the ground" bullet point, but for those of you who don't have a lot of space to work with or want to use some deck space, look up a sub-irrigated planter. They're super easy to make and are far less wasteful water-wise than regular container gardening. I used it when I still lived in an apartment and I only had to water my plants once or twice throughout the whole growing season!
Suggestion for a video: I have chickens, I have compost, how do I turn it into dirt?? I know I can amend soil with it, but how do I use it with seeds, cuttings and new plants?
Thanks! Your channel is the reason I watch YouTube
I make my own fertilizer with comfrey tea. And I use compost when I make enough.
I think if you are growing new things just try one plant or a small section. That way you can try new things but its not a huge investment. If you hate it chickens will eat it or compost it.
Probably one of the best ways to save money on gardening is to learn about seed savings. I’ve used seeds and onion/lettuce ends, from store bought produce, to start growing some of my own veggies and fruits. With seeds, probably about third of the seeds were successful to mature plant that gave us little food, plus you can let go one of those plants mature enough to flower and produce seeds for next planting, you should get better harvest from those seeds. Ans as far as the ends, probably about half were successful. I might have been doing something wrong in the beginning.
It’s so addicting to garden and we get lots of mental health benefits. Many people trade with us and we learn more about other veggies. If we grow too much, then we sell or share with others. It’s a win-win for us. 😃
How do you keep the chickens out of the garden if you free range them?
I watch a lot of cooking videos and gardening videos. I am retired so I do watch a lot of them. While they are all usually interesting and informative, every once in a while a youtube comes along that really connects with relevant information–that is you. Growing my own food on a budget really hits home.