Gardening and landscaping can add value to your home, curb appeal, and work as a great stress reliever. It can also be expensive - unless you follow some thrfty guidelines!
Like all budgeting tasks, it takes organization and planning. You can have a perfectly landscaped yard and a garden full of vegetables that you can place on your table at a low cost.
- Learn the basics. Use your local library, internet, and the local nursery.
- Keep it fun. Don't go overboard and create a flower or vegetable garden that will take all your free time. Start with a small spot in your yard and make it a pleasure - not a chore.
- Save - Don't Spend. For vegetable gardens, you should harvest more in savings than your spend in making the garden. Again, this requires proper planning.
- In your yard, use plants that serve more than one purpose such as shrubs that are green all year and flower sometime during the year or trees that show off early spring blossoms and provide shade during the summer.
- Grow flowers that seed themselves such as poppies, violas, sweet peas, sweet alyssum, and larkspur.
