Don’t let inflation give you nightmares. Take charge: Keep calm and carry on gardening!
If only we had a magic wand that could magically make groceries cheaper! Well, we have the next best thing – Ben’s top money saving tips for an abundant garden! With over 20 tried and tested inflation-busting tips and tricks, you can cut your grocery store bill while getting healthier food for next to nothing.
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Binge watch these videos! Swat up and get more bang for your buck!
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Did somebody say raspberries and blueberries?! Yum! (Bat your eyelids at your fruit bush friends!) For our video on that, see this link:
For https://youtu.be/RgkC5I7NpUA
Want to 10X your plants? See this video:
For more on how to maximise and multiply grocery-bought herbs see: https://youtu.be/jYNiCsfyrn0
Or to create your own herb garden, go to: https://youtu.be/VTFLtfA4KEw
Protect your plants with a quick and easy cold frame or hoop house:
Want more compost and soil for free? Check out how to collect and use leaves in your garden:
…and how to use your kitchen and household waste to build soil: https://youtu.be/kN8OMgaLiaI
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I love your channel but I have a question, using the newspaper would make the veg not organic wouldn't it? As the paper contains loads of chemicals would they not go into the soil and in turn in the vegetables?
Binge watch, here I come! Watching these videos is relaxing and exciting at the same time. Hope you enjoy, too.
I bought several packets of seeds from the Dollar store. They are perfectly fine, they cost .25 cents and you get enough to try different plants. I have too many sed packets with too many seeds that last too long. I buy from a famous online store; they tend to give you double the seeds you buy and when you spend $10.00 they throw in a free packet of seeds they also offer free shipping. Not everyone realizes that you can double your tomato crop but propagate from your own plants. I double my plants like that all the time. Tomatoes can grow roots all along their stem. Last year I bought a pack of romaine lettuce because I noticed that the shop planted 14 in one 6 pack so I got 14 romaine for a few bucks.
Thank you so much for the biodegradable newspaper pot tip, that’s going to help me so much!
The Real Seed company have a special pack of seeds at a reduced price for low waged or unwaged growers.
Okay. Another money saving tip, playing off of what he ^ said. Gutted refrigerators, laid on their backs (doors removed), drainage drilled into back makes great deep raised beds. Fill the bottom with logs, brush, and anything organic and fill with compost.
Hi Ben, when composting egg boxes do I need to remove the sticky label or can I leave it on the box?
Do you have any suggestions for protecting my plant from fox? Every night they make mess my vegetable beds and digging the soil. Not only that they leave their poo on the grass.
I’ve got a fabulous basically free fertilizer recipe called fermented plant juice. Early in the morning when the plants outside are expressing their dew, go cut the tips of vigorous growing grasses and weeds in your yard. Collect at least a packed cups worth. Next you’re going to massage the same amount per volume of brown sugar into the tips of your plants. Keep this in a glass jar with a breathable lid on top like a paper towel or cheese cloth with a rubber band securing it. You’re going to leave this to sit on your counter for seven days, stirring once per day. It’s going to make a syrup, kind of like putting sugar on cut strawberries. After the seven days, you’re going to strain the solids out and reserve the liquid as your fertilizer. If there’s not enough liquid, you can add a little bit of water and stir well before straining the solids. Store in your fridge and use 1-2 teaspoons per gallon of water. The tips of vigorous growing plants and weeds in your yard have a lot of growth hormones when you collect them at the time they’re expressing dew. Dandelions are a great choice but collect a variety of all that grows vigorous and natural. Weeds with especially long taproots are a great choice. This will have pretty much all the nutrients and micro nutrients you need. I’ve had great success with this!
I absolutely love your tips! I'm all about saving money in the garden. Facebook often has local gardening groups where members are all too happy to share native seeds to those living in the same region. I have gotten milkweed this way and intend to pay it forward when given the opportunity!
I do not like the toilet paper tubes, they seem to mold rather quickly. The paper pots we make pretty much the same way, but we paint the outside of the cups with a glue and water mix and allow them to dry most of the way before we remove them form the cups. I do like the paper and peat pots because they can be planted hole and you do not have to worry about root shock.
I use maple saplings for plant supports. We have the helicopters from the maple trees falling and I won't pull out all of the seedlings this summer. I will leave a few to get next spring when they are around 6-8 feet tall. I leave some to grow on for walking sticks also.
Here in the US our local Walmarts will recycle the nursery pots. People bring them in and drop them off next to the bag recycling bins. You are free to take as many of them as you want. Our recycling centers also will give you nursery pots if you ask and they have any.
Second year watching this video, and it's even more valuable this time! Prices are sky high for just about everything, so we're going bigger in the garden!
When you're talking about planting in odd containers, what are the bulbous things the (looks like) red leaf lettuce growing in? At about 12:15. Weird indeed 🙂 Thanks yet again Ben, from the Pacific North West!
Don't we have to open the bottom of these toilet roll tubes while we plant them?
Darn, my apologies Ben. I’ve been calling you Bob😂😂😂😂😂
Great tips, thank you!👍😊
Love the idea of using animal waste! We have two pet bunnies, I grow all of their food in our garden so it's a nice symbiotic relationship to use their droppings as fertilizer! Thanks for the tips, learning so much from you!
Your garden looks amazing!
I use egg cartons to germinate seeds before transplanting into pots