Cultivate Savings in the Garden | The Cheap Life with Jeff Yeager | AARP
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Gardening is a terrific way to get a little exercise, enjoy the great outdoors and (best of all) save barrels of cash by growing your own grub! The Ultimate Cheapskate and Cheap Life host Jeff Yeager shares his favorite tightwad gardening tips that will help you get the most out of your land.
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You have an awesome production team! I get more impressed with every video.
I came for the guy who looked like Mario and stayed for the great advice!! Thanks!!
this season i started all of my tomato seedlings in toilet paper and paper towel rolls for extra deep pots inside of a tall plastic lettuce tub from costco that my husband purchases. all of the tomato plants germinated & grew side roots through the sides of the cardboard rolls. so i just replanted them all in larger pots until it is time to put outside & was able to leave the cardboard rolls in place inside of the new pots. it works great folks! i compost a lot of cardboard & old clothes too!
That's a great idea. In fact, I'd love to do a whole episode on propogating plants, reusing seeds, hosting a plant-swap, etc.
Mr Yeager, I see you don’t do much posting anymore but I saw you on Extreme Cheapskates years ago and still regularly do your fiscal fasts. 🙌 you’re a god of frugality.
Thanks! You're obviously a person extraordinary intelligence and good taste when it comes to theater-of-the-cheap.
I have 2 bunnies and a garden to provide them with fresh greens. I save all their litter and poop and use it to fertilize the garden. With bunny poop, no composting is necessary. Bunnies really know how to recycle themselves!
Some foods bought from the store can be replanted to produce more food, i.e. celery! Just cut off the bottom and place on top of jar where the water touches bottom of the celery. The celery will start to root and grow leaves from the center. Once it has long roots, plant it! Once it is ready to harvest, do not dig it up. Just cut off the stalks so it can produce more! Try onions, potatoes, rhubarb and more!
I save money by saving seeds from my garden veggies each year and then planting them the next year rather than continually buying new ones. I also save the water I use cooking veggies or pasta, and once its cooled I use it to water my veggies. Or, if I don't want to wait for it to cool, boiling water will kill weeds immediately :)
If you have a pet cat or dog, brush them often and spread the sheddings around any gardening areas that animals seem to be attracted to, especially deer! The loose hair will deter them! Planting marigolds around vegetable gardens will keep the deer away, just as mint will chase off spiders! Use egg shells to start your seeds in. Not only will it provide calcium, it can also be transplanted into the soil with the seedlings!
This spring I "rescued" from the curb side approximately 150 bags of bagged leaves from my neighborhood. The leaves provide excellent mulch throughout my yard keeping weeds down and reducing the amount of work to keep plantings. They conserve water and kept the bagged leaves from landfill. I have an area in the front "leaf island". Seems like a win-win situation to me.
You take the 95% savings that I mentioned about starting plants from seeds and make it 100%! Now that's cheapskate approved!
To save on my groceries, this year I have started a kitchen garden in my yard. I was using a fabricated door as a work bench but I have had such a rainey season that my work bench was falling apart. I used those pieces of pressed wood as mulch around my plants, which seems to be saving my vegtables.
When inside is too cold for warm loving plants like watermelons or cucumbers to sprout, I use garage sale bought heating pad with low setting under my seedlings growing in yogurt containers. They are much cheaper than special grow mats even in the stores.
I grow a garden every year saves on groceries keeps me stress free and the food is better for me.
I love ramps, plus this time of year I'm livin' largely on fiddlehead ferns and bamboo shoots, both of which are sprouting up in our yard fast than I can eat 'em! That's my kind of gardening.
If you can get your hands on some heirloom seeds, you'll be a happy gardener! Most regular seeds may be cheaper, but they are fiddled with so that it's either difficult or impossible to harvest the next gen seeds for next season, forcing to buy new ones every time. Heirloom cost ranges from "not bad" to "OMG," but you can harvest their seeds countless times so you don't have to keep buying packets every year; you'll make that money back fairly quickly.
We have tons of ramps growing on the river near me...every year in the ext county over there is a ramp festival where people can try their luck eating the most ramps...the winner gets a bottle of Scope! LOL! Had no idea I could be selling these things.
Didn't know that about loose pet hair being a deer deterrent. Just thought it was good for bird's nests. Will have to do some more brushing!!
Good points. Sometimes paying a bit more for quality at the outset will pay off.
Another fan of toilet paper rolls...excellent!
You got that right, allz28! We have the best production team money can buy, errrr....
Love your tips on seedling starters! Sometimes, stuff ordered online comes in heavy-duty non-seethrough bags. Poke a few holes in them, fill them with compost and they're great little planters.
My yard had no worms when I moved in and of course, this was really disconcerting. I put down burlap, newspapers and cardboard in the garden area (hardly any flowers there) and on the lawn (which was really just weeds), covered with old rugs left for trash and rug samples from the rug store to depress weeds. Worms chomped away at the food, leaving tunnels and fertilizer that has broken up the hard clay. Now the soil is rich and dark and absorbs water much better. The rugs are no more. Now I put out newspapers and cardboard with mulch on top each spring. Had gotten mulch from the county landfill (advertised as cut up Christmas trees) but heard too many stories about how the noxious weeds in yard waste got in there too and ruined yards. Now I buy the mulch which is still inexpensive. No more lawn so no mowing and healthier for the environment.
Huh, I didn't think of containers like those before. Thanks.
Love it!
Love ur videos
When your growing season is over bury compost through the garden for a soil ready to plant.
Egg cartons are egg-cellent seed-starters!
Still funny, 6 years later...
Make your own mulch and compost!
Raise veggies to eat, give extras to snails, feed snails to chicken, use entire chicken.
this i don't think counts as saving money but more like making money, there is this plant knowned as a ramp and it is close to a onion except smaller and more garlicky. they can sell for a upwards of 15 dollars per pound. now that is some nice cash i would love to pocket. the only problem is they spread like wild fire so make sure they are away from somewhere were you don't want to have ramps at.
Don't forget to share your favorite cheapskate garden tip here for a chance at the $50 gift card! So how was the gardening weather this weekend where you live? Were you able to get a lot done? Or just get outside and enjoy it?
dandelions are edible some store sell the green, Save your seeds.
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I should hope you were just kidding about using rock salt for margaritas. Rock salt is poisonous and should NEVER be used in food. It contains chemicals that helps melt ice and snow. FYI
CamLof21 I was thinking the same thing!!
Apply these tips and #staycheap while you garden.
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nah, I'm just cheap. :)