Ways To Save Some Green Going Green - You may be feeling the pinch from the recession we are living in so I thought I would share a few tips that will save you some money.
1. Make Your Own Compost
Save the environment and stop sending things to the landfill that don’t need to be going their. I am of course talking about kitchen waste and yard waste that could be composted and used in your garden or containers.
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We started composting last year in 2009 and just loved it. Now we don’t spend money on buying compost and additives for the soil, plus we are sending hundreds of pounds less to the landfill so Mother Nature thanks us.
2. Start From Seed
I meant to go this route a couple of years ago but time just sorta slipped away and before we knew it planting time had arrived and all our seeds were still in their neat little packages.
We ended up spending hundreds of dollars on plants. DUH!!
This year I have set aside a room in the basement for my own little nursery and will start as many vegetables and flowers as I can in the space we have.
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Think about starting from seed. You will pay less for one pack of sees and get perhaps dozens if not more plants from that pack. So if you paid a dollar for the pack of seeds and grow a dozen plants you saved more than ten dollars right there.
Then, when your plants go to seed you can collect and save those seeds for next year, which saves you even more money. Pretty cool.
3. Start Mulching NOW
We didn’t do any mulching for years in our flower beds and never really thought about, all the time weeding unnecessarily. Not any more…
Now we have started putting mulch around more every plant we have and guess what, it takes far less watering as the water doesn’t evaporate as fast with mulch down.
We also have almost no weeding at all.
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Note: put the mulch thick enough that starter shoot from weeds can’t get any light of the mulch won’t work well. I am talking from first hand experience.
4. Start A Vegetable Garden
We did a lot of flower gardening before we finally bought a place big enough that we didn’t have to use containers for everything.
Vegetable gardening is a great way to grow things at home instead of going to the superstore and giving them your money.
We started small with a 4 x 16 foot gardening and had great fun. It didn’t turn into a disaster at all, thanks to veggie gardening tips I have found around the net. Next year we plan to double or triple the garden size.
We plan to grow enough produce this year that we can preserve some for the winter months and save even more money. Our home is an older home and still has a cold room in the basement. Bonus.
5. Buy A Rain Barrel, Cut Down On The Water Bill
It’s a great idea to collect rain water so that you don’t have to use tap water as it takes away from our water table.
Keep a fine mess over the barrel to keep out breeding insects like misquitoes. We just use the same mess/screen that we put on our windows. It’s cheap and does the job perfectly.
Never leave standing water uncovered.
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BONUS TIP: Grow herbs both indoors and outdoor so you have fresh herbs all year long. Keep your herbs in containers so that you can have them close to your kitchen if your garden isn’t.