Get Your Money Garden Started
March 19, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Home & Living
Does money grow on plants?
Burpee claims their $10 seed package, the Money Garden, produces more than $650 worth of veggies!
Seeds in the Money Garden include snap beans, lettuce, bell pepper, carrots, peas and tomatoes.
No matter which garden seeds you chose, there are plenty of good reasons to start your own garden this year.
Top Reasons to Plant a Veggie Garden
• Savings. Calculate how much you spend on vegetables at the store. With a few simple garden tools, you can start saving lots of money.
• Convenience. You won’t have to choose plastic-wrapped lettuce and carrots at the store. Just walk to your plot and harvest.
• Education. If you have children, they’ll likely be thrilled with the process.
• Freshness. You’ll never have to wonder how long your food has been sitting on a shelf.
• Sustainability. Growing your own food is very eco-friendly. It eliminates transportation costs and packaging.
Are you planting a vegetable garden this year?
(Image via Burpee)
I am currently getting ready to put in a vegetable bed and order stone fruit trees and grape vines. I have put lettuce (it’s Autumn in my part of the world), garlic, basil, mint, peas, passionfruit, a lemon tree, carrots and coriander on my deck. I am using seeds except for the passionfruit. I have limited space and granite and clay to grow in so I will be putting in raised garden beds for other vegetables and herbs. While oranges, apples and mandarins are fairly inexpensive here and fruit trees expensive to buy I will be concentrating on stone fruits to begin with. I might leave them in pots as I will be ordering dwarf, multigrafted and miniature varieties.
I have had to do a lot of clearing of rubbish in the backyard but am finally getting somewhere. I also want to do companion planting and make sure I include flowers to draw bees. Today I planted lavender strikes, marigold seeds and alyssum around the boundaries of where the bed will be. I have put one large and one small open compost heap in. I will probably get a tumbler compost bin. I also use the greywater from the house and have a drum for runoff. I would like to get a big tank.
It is great exercise: I only do a couple of hours in late afternoon and I love it. This is the first time I have tried anything like this. I recommend it to anyone….even if it is only some herbs on a windowsill.
frazzledsugarplumum, Thanks for telling us about your garden! It sounds wonderful. I love that you’re using greywater and composting.