Organic Vegetable Gardening on a Budget - 15 Money Saving Tips

Anything you can propagate or start more than you want to grow you can sell these at local formers markets.

Tips for garden dirt plants really love in Thurston county, WA. ... The water treatment plant in Centralia composts sanitized waste water with roadside clippings and has available starting in March for $7/yard. Best plants I ever grew

Can I do drip irrigation on a balcony garden? I have to carry water to my vegetables from my kitchen using old milk containers. Thanks.

Is there any reason why I shouldn’t dissolve the Neptune’s Harvest crab and lobster shell in water for a one time feeding? I didn’t have this product when I planned everything, but I would love to give them a good drink of it. Thanks for the help!

Yep, I got a couple of cheap plastic garbage trash cans (with lids) collecting rain water as I write this.

Thank you! Super helpful.

When it comes to plastics 2,4,5 keeps you alive, 3,6,7 sends you to heaven.

I work at a Mexican restaurant and we go through a ton of sour cream. I use the buckets as pots, and use certain boxes for compost and lay down in garden to control weeds.
most Mexican restaurants or other restaurants have cardboard bins they will let you get them and they have more buckets that build up than they will use. They will be happy in most cases to unload them.✌❤

Comfrey and weeds in a garbage can with water left to ferment six weeks can provide a great/free liquid fertilizer. I saw this yesterday on older Morag Gamble: My Permaculture Life YT Channel. Loved that idea and your money saving ideas too. Glad I just found your channel!

I have noticed the price hike as well, cost me 6 bucks per pepper plant :( I did most things by seed but not peppers and I regretted it

On the subject of using anything and everything for containers, I have an old, holey (drainage!) 14 ft Jon boat for my latest (and greatest) container! I just sat it up on blocks to make it easier for my old back to access. There are 3 sections, so I'm composting in the largest one.

The story, if you're interested, of how I came about getting it... my SIL had this old boat and every rivet in it had popped. Shouldn't a mother-in-law be offended, even somewhat suspicious, being offered a boat full of holes? 🤨🤔 Nay, I say! I saw a really cool raised bed (even if he did want me to take it out fishing!) 😉😅

$3 is more than what you'd spend in a store for organic lettuce? Clearly you don't live in Canada 🤣

Great ideas! Looking forward to seeing your take on budget fertilizer.

can you use pet bedding for mulch such as PetsPick Aspen Pet Bedding is made of only natural, virgin wood fibers

Some seed companies have season-end sales in the Autumn. That can be a great way to get a variety of seeds for pennies.

As are all your videos this was so helpful. Transplants here in the Poconos run about a dollar apiece at most of our local nurseries. Since we also have many farms nearby we have been able to get compost fairly cheaply. thank you so so much for your advice. since I found your site, my garden is serving not only our family, but many of the neighbors as well. Best wishes on your new home!

Thank for sharing.

I just bought your book and I love it!

I noticed how expensive the big store's plants are. I am very lucky. I live near a lot of Amish and I get my plants from them. Veggie, pepper and tomato plants 95 cents each ! and the one I go to has a lot of verity

I love this channel ❤️ I would like the link to your homesteading blog. I purchased your book!!! Love it. It's my all things garden Bible 😍

Wow - I never thought of doing that with tomatoes. Thanks! That gives me an option for succession planting to extend the season when it comes to determinate varieties. And I can attest to how easy it is to propagate basil; I often harvest a bunch and put it into jars of water in my kitchen. Invariably, I have lots of roots by the time I've finished using that bunch.

For tomato I connect two el. conduct tubes 10’ apart in ground with the third one connecting them on the top. Again - a cheap 6” net running from the top tube. Like upside down U. 10’.

I use for years 4’x8’ wire mesh, 6”, from Home Depot which is used for concrete.
I connect two of them on the top with a zip locks. They are 4’ apart down. As an arch for cucumbers, beans…They do not need more support.
One my bed is wider, so I run a green nylon net (6” )from Amazon in the middle - from the top of the arch.

In CA one - single one seedling is $4.95. Each one. Same for pepper, tomato, cucumber- all $4.95. It is 20 times more than in Ohio!!!

I just bought a starter cherry tomato plant which was $19.99! I sure hope it yields good tomatoes!

Love your videos Brian! Always informative and timely. I’ve learned a lot and continue to learn from every video. Keep up the great work! You are blessed and a blessing to others!

I'm in Phenix City Alabama, what would be a good mulch to use? I just tried my hand at no till this year, but I'm hearing that some mulch attracts pests and snails, so far I have used pine shavings lightly around my plants that are in pots and the same for my small garden.

I am looking forward to your seed saving video 😁

You can make raised bed borders with old garden hoses and old pipes. I staple mine to the ground. Staples can be made from old dry cleaner hangers. Water barrels can be covered with dense mesh to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs or whatever other nasty things they lay :) I wonder if heirloom seeds get affected by same family plants growing nearby?..

Free fertiliser......I don't have the time/patience for worm farms BUT since I already had the worm farm trays I've been filling them with nearly done compost and lots of worms and I end up with heaps of worm castings in a few months. I use the usual sunlight method of separating the castings without getting all the worms, toss in more well rotted compost, and let the process go again. Evidently compost worms really like broken down materials best.

What are your thoughts about growing food from food. I save seeds from store bought cucumbers ,tomatoes, peppers and have had good results with tasty food.

What do you use to build soil

Thank you Sir. Outstanding tips!

I've been using my dollar store tools for over a year now. . .

I’ve always done flowers and I have a green thumb in that category. This will be my first summer trying out vegetables. Where I live our growing season starts late May till end of September….longer for carrots etc. I got free food grade buckets at our local grocery store’s baking department..they were just throwing them out. I bought an organic potting soil, I am picking up some organic fertilizer/mulch….I have to buy starter plants cause I don’t have a greenhouse where I can start seeds…will let you know how it goes.

Thanks so much for your tips Brian! Cant wait for the video on how to save your seeds from your vegetables and regrow them ! Gaby Narducci

We still had 6 packs of transplants, peppers, tomatoes, Onions etc $3.25 - not bad
Planted them while readying my seedlings and terrace my fruit dates!

I like how things turns out for you. This is good entertainment for my family. The gift of the day. this is. L and S button on!

Great ideas! Thank you!

Hi, what about soil from Home Depot? is that any good?

I would be careful using pallets, because sometimes they're treated with toxic chemicals to prevent decomposition.

Lol what rain. I live in socal.

PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE be careful when accessing city/town compost sites. Check to see if there are any invasive worms in your area before you do. Our land is infested with Asian Jumping worms that (I suspect) we got when we brought compost in from our town site. I am in Massachusetts Zone 6a, and I'm doing a ton of container gardening because my big beautiful raised beds are infested. So please be careful!

Great video. I saved money on gardening infrastructure and fertilizer, like trellises by using crepe myrtle branches that I cut back in December, and saving them.These branches are 4-12 feet long, and perfect as stakes, and I've tied them together with string. I also burned some of what I pruned, and I can save these garden wood ashes in a pot, to add if ever needed as a fertilizer. Keeping my fall leaves, means I have my own free mulch which definitely saves me from having to water so much. I turn some leaves into leaf mold and compost which I can add to my soil.

I have been gardening for many years, but only 2 years at my current home, now using raised beds. Your channel has been very helpful. I LOVE starting seeds, watching the whole process. It's so rewarding.

How about a top five list of gardening books to keep in an underground bunker?

The big box stores really don't have variety & cost so much. I've seen almost $5 for Tomato/Peppers. Small nurseries may have cheaper prices. Ace Hardware/True Value Hardware is cheaper.

Great tips for all, yes I've noticed the prices for starter plants have definitely gone up everywhere. But after learning how to start from seed I avoid buying any starters for the most part as I love the variety choices. I use containers for my garden, almost all grow bags and I reuse them. I just wash them out and they are ready for the next plant. Drip irrigation is awesome and not that expensive, cost under $100 total for my container garden and I add hoses as needed. It sure beats standing out in the 100+ degree "feels like" temps we've been having this week in central Florida!! Honestly I would spend way more for not having to sweat like crazy for a 1/2 hr watering almost everyday. Definitely the best investment I've made to my garden thanks to your instruction!

Not able to find rock phosphate in the real Midwest, South Dakota. What should I be using for Asparagus as well as tomatoes and pepper plants?