Organic gardening can be an expensive hobby because it requires a lot of time and hard work. However, if you know what to plant and how, you can do this gardening on a budget! Here are seven tips for organic gardeners who want to save money on their gardening expenses.
1. Always Buy a Starter Kit:
Gardening can be very expensive, and even if you have the best soil and the most expensive plants, you will still only be able to grow so much. To have a successful garden, you need many things: seeds, fertilizer, tools. This is why you should always buy a starter kit for your seedlings before starting your garden.
2. Preparing Your Soil:
You will not be able to start with top-quality soil if it has already been fertilized with manure or left outdoors for too long in the sun. Therefore, get it into your home as soon as possible to avoid large quantities of excess nutrients in your soil. To prepare your soil for gardening, mix together equal parts of soil with topsoil, which contains all the good stuff your garden needs.
3. Preparing Tools:
You need to make sure that you have a shovel, trowel and watering can at the ready before you start planting. These tools will be used to move soil around in order to plant seeds so it is important that they are in perfect order and ready to use right away. You will also need a hand hoe for cutting through slightly larger areas of soil.
4. Adding Fertilizer:
Once your plants are in the ground, they require fertilizer to grow quickly and produce fruit. To add more nutrients into your soil, simply sprinkle some fertilizer over it on a regular basis. The best time to do this is in the early morning when the soil is still cool and moist.
5. Watering:
If you are planting in containers, you don’t need to water your plants as often but if you are planting in the ground, you do have to keep them watered on a daily basis. Use a watering can that has a built-in syringe so that you can get all of the water out of it without spilling any over the edge.
6. Caring for Plants:
You will have to check on your plants regularly and make sure that they are well-cared for or else they will wither away quickly. For example, trim back branches that grow over people’s heads so they don’t block views or cause problems while people walk by. You can also remove dead leaves from your plants that are too old to be usable and it will help prevent them from falling off.
7. Plant Tags:
You can get plant tags that you can attach to the stems of your plants so that people know what your plants are and where they were purchased from.