Eight Out of the Box Ways You Can Reduce Your Gardening Costs

By Rusty O'Connor

We love gardening, and love the joy planting your own food can bring. If you haven't watched it, go out and rent the movie Food Inc. After watching it, we are sure you will want to grow more of your own produce too. Listed below are eight tips to help you save money when gardening.

Tip 1: Collect your vegetable and herb garden seeds: Rather than buying new seeds or seedlings each season let some of your vegetables or herbs go to seed and collect the seeds.

Tip 2: Go hydroponic: Hydroponics is a great way to grow vegetables and herbs cost effectively, even when you don't have much space. Do a quick search on the Internet and see what options there are for your particular needs.

Tip 3: Cut your own lawn and do your own gardening: Gardening is a fun activity and helps keep you fit and active. Why outsource it! Do these activities yourself, have fun and save money.

Tip 4: Repaint your garden furniture rather than replace: Enamel paint isn't that expensive when compared to replacing your garden furniture. A quick sand and a repaint may be all that is required to make your garden furniture look like new again.

Tip 5: Composting: Composting minimises your house hold waste while providing you with very fertile soil for you to grow your vegetables in. You save money on soil, and you will also minimise the amount of waste you throw out which can reduce your rubbish costs (extra bins cost around $10 a week). Get a wormery as well will enhance the productivity of your garden.

Tip 6: Share plants: It is relatively easy to take prunings, shootings, or parts of different grasses and regrow them. See if you can get together with your neighbours and swap some of the different plants that you have. This will save you a lot more money than going down to the garden store for all of your purchases.

Tip 7: Use hand held hoses (with trigger heads on them) to water the lawn or garden: It is a lot more water efficient than the old sprinkler systems.

Tip 8: Use grey water to water your garden: Grey water (eg water from your washing machine) is ok for the garden. Collect the water in buckets, and then water your garden to your heart's content.

About the author: Rusty O'Conor is an affiliate marketer with eight years experience. His areas of expertise include SEO, articles, ezines, blogs and PPC. Rusty is particularly interested in the areas of goal setting, time management and financial and money management. Rusty is married with three young children, is an Australian national and currently lives as an expat in the Middle East. If you want to check out all his money saving tips visit http://www.1000moneysavingtips.com

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