Save Money for Next Year's Garden

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Now is the time to start looking for items you will need for your garden next year. If you need tools, mulch, etc., you can get them on sale now and save money for next year’s garden.

To shop for items for next year, look around at garden centers or discount stores in your area. Now is the best time (or early in the spring) to shop as garden centers and discount stores put their items on sale so they can make room for the inventory that they will be needing next. Buy tropical plants at this time and decorate your home with them. Next summer you will be able to put them in the outdoors.

Now is the time to save seeds for next year so you save money on your garden. Collect the seeds from your garden. Ask any of your friends and family members if they would like to swap seeds with you. Perhaps your friends and family members are not into swapping seeds but will give you seeds of theirs as they do not want them. To store the seeds put them in a paper bag. Make sure you label the paper bag so come spring you know what the seeds are. Store the bagged seeds in a cool and dry place until next spring when you plant them.

If you have perennials now is the time to dig them up and split them. Take the perennials and use your shovel to split them. Now you can transplant the perennials in your garden or throughout your yard. You can ask family and/or friends if they would like to swap perennials and save money for next year‘s garden.

Skip buying fertilizer as it is a larger expense. Make an area in your yard a compost pile. You can learn how to start up a compost pile by using an online search engine such as Google or go to your library and check out a gardening book. There are certain foods you should not put in your compost pile and you can learn which ones online or from a book at the library.

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