5 Money Saving Tips for Beginning Gardeners (Frugal Gardening)

You need to be barefoot brother, it will help both you and your plants communicate and exchange energies. Great video, nevertheless.
I never understood how you can wear shoes in a garden or nature unless doing some risky work. I guess I am used to being barefoot.

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Growing fruits and vegetables with little or no added fertilizer is important for me. If it costs more to grow than to buy the same amount at the supermarket then no matter how "healthier" the produce might be it's a problem.

Are you Norwegian? :) How much land do you grow on?

Hi... could you tell us if you have planted 1 or 2 trees of peach and pears each for cross pollination. I want to grow fruit trees but I do not have so much space to grow 2 trees of each fruit. Please reply. Thanks. 🙏

ill never recover all the financial costs of my garden , but every time i grow a single thing i recoup the cost mentally 10 x over

Great videos! How long do you predict those Pine beds will last?

What if your dog pisses on every plant possible, then can I do raised beds?

For raised beds, we start with logs/wood chips/grass clippings and compost from our pile. Wood chips are free from local arborists and help retain water. In the fall we collect pots that people toss out that are filled with soil and we do some dumpster diving for pots at our local cemeteries (got permission) which helps them as they pay by the weight for the "trash". A plus is that we clean ut the pots and recycle them.

Where ya been for the past year? Hoping you are well!!! You taught me a lot, and got me started! Had a nice crop this year!

What if you build the beds from old logs or do hugulkultre instead of raised beds?

I'm enjoying your relaxing voice, and interesting information. I may have missed this, but why do you put the cardboard down? Is it to stop unwanted growth? Does it decompose through the winter? Is there a restriction on what kin of cardboard? For example, I have lots of Amazon boxes; would they be ok, or do some cardboard boxes contain chemicals?

One of the best backyard garden I've ever seen

Hi there. Chicago suburban newish gardener here. My grass is covered in creeping charlie. Should I be concerned about mulching with those clippings?

Thanks for providing these high quality calm videos for free :)

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Where are you located? I noticed on one of your video. It got up to -25. I’m in Calgary which gets low as -35

Great advice and such beautiful footage!

Composting your poop is the best free fertilizer

Can I ask a silly newbie question? I'm wanting to use a lot of trellising like you do in your garden. Is there a certain direction you should place your trellising so that it won't shade your garden? I know the path the sun takes over my house. I just can't wrap my head around it.

I'm new to gardening yes the cost can be high especially when container growing I got a few raised beds done at the end of last yr so itll be my first time growing in them this yr. Really glad to come upon your video looking forward to learning more from you. I do have a question if I put cardboard on a area of my yard to grow in this yr will putting it down now be enough time to grow in it this year? I was gonna put blk kow on top cut a hole dig up some soil put some compost in the hole add fertilizer add a little more compost drop in my seedlings cover appropriately and see if it grows ill was gonna do some flowers but some vegetables as well which veggies do you think will do well this way I know I should test the soil but I'm not it actually seems to be good soil but will need some conditioning maybe some perlite and vermiculite as I'll be making 2 blocked off beds.

I don't see you growing stinginging nettle

Well Done! Growing up in the rural part of North Carolina, having and being surrounded by gardens was a part of life. My family did not have to worry about recalls on food because when you grow your own food you know what you are putting in your body. You can save a lot of money by growing your own fruits and vegetables right in your backyard or in flower pots. The price of a pack of seeds is almost equivalent to what you would pay for a single vegetable or fruit at the store, saving you hundreds of dollars each season!

Thanks for these awesome tips! You can save a lot of money by growing your own fruits and vegetables right in your backyard or in flower pots.  The price of a pack of seeds is almost equivalent to what you would pay for a single vegetable or fruit at the store, saving you hundreds of dollars each season!  It's great knowing exactly what you're putting in your body as well!

You could potentially make use of a modified hugelkultur method to cut down on watering costs for a raised bed. An example is a version that Mark Valencia from Self Sufficient Me uses for the majority of his beds. I've also seen a few other versions, such as the hugel pot method, wherein you place sticks, leaves and other plant matter at the base of a pot. Obviously, don't place too thick of a layer in the pot as that might interfere with plant growth. My main point is that you can cut down on some issues with watering (and filling costs) by using a variation of the hugel method.

Good luck brothers. I liked video

My soil is 100% compost. 1/2 mushroom compost and 1/2 yard/kitchen/garden waste compost. I built 7 raised beds 6 years ago and I have (literally) millions of worms, beetles, centipedes and other insects in it. Slugs are not a problem anymore and the dozens of low growing dill weeds keep rabbits away. I also have marigolds planted profusely in each bed.


Compost beats traditional fertilizers hands down. Your garden and your belly will thank you for it.

Ground up oyster shells are a free source of calcium for your tomatoes and other veggies

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Thank you for your great tips....

Hello,
Please could you tell me what altitude is your garden?
I saw you get frost and cold winters.
I thought sweet potatoes didn't like frost.
Thanks and all the best!

When I’m watching this video, I think like “when are you going to harvest those tomatoes?” 😂

Very nice video, I've watched a lot of your videos. And starting a channel myself as well. I already subscribed to your channel, would you please help and sub my channel as well. I appreciate your helps

Hello, where did you get your Asian pear tree. Thanks?

I want to get a load of wood chips from a arborist this year.

I also don't like walls on raised beds because they are harder to weed. In my first garden, with walled beds, there was rhizomatous grass next to the beds, and it was absolutely impossible to dig out. My beds are now mounded above the native soil but I don't use walls. I can weed the edges easily now.


I don't maintain a compost pile, because I always found the work of turning the pile and shoveling it around the garden all at once to be arduous. I prefer to bury my kitchen scraps, spent crops, and paper waste directly into my garden beds. This way I dig one or two holes every week, throughout the year, which is much more manageable for me. During the height of the veggie season, I dig it under my fruit trees. My yields have been much better since doing this.

have you used haybeds and/or piles, if so do you have a video on that? I love chop and drop it is amazing how well that works and love the minimal work too. Love you cat looks like our Nana's old cat. Thanks, keep sharing, blessings.

OYR: Could you please explain in more detail about the pros & cons of garden-soil, sloping towards or away from the sun? Since the sun's positin would change from morning to evening, what is best for the backyard of a south-facing house?

So glad Oscar has his own plot growing

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What name it is your Blueberry?

nice Blueberry

Great tips all around. I agree with the advantages you list of raised beds, have to say, I regret making raised beds, as low as yours would have been fine, but mine are much higher. The slugs love hiding behind the wooden sides and during this last very hot and dry summer the beds just dried out so much faster than the areas I don't have raised which was a real problem this year. Apart from that, I am very impressed with your peach tree, mine needs to see your video and see hos it's supposed to be doing ;-)

Thank you for the tipps...i just use what is arround me

I really like your approach to home gardening. Do you have ideas, advices on planting in containers? I have limited spaces, thank you.

My pocket is now empty after building four 4x12 raised beds and all the soil & compost

I made ollas out of clay garden pots & saucers to fill up & reduce my water requirements for my raised beds.
We have 4'x8' beds with 2 ollas in each bed.
This year we haven't needed them since it was so rainy down south, but they were very handy last year through a couple of mini droughts.

Grow everything from seed. It saves me hundreds.

Where ya been?! Missing your videos. Garden must be pumping out the last of the summer stuff now