| Whether you are an avid vegetable gardener, a | | | | that eat aphids and other pests.6. My |
| beginning herb gardener or just like to have | | | | husband bought some used carpet at a garage |
| a pretty yard, these frugal tips may help you | | | | sale, cut it into wide strips and laid it |
| save a little money!1. Stale coffee and | | | | down between the rows in our garden. Now we |
| coffee grounds make great organic fertilizer. | | | | can pick peas with getting our shoes muddy.7. |
| They provide many trace minerals and low, | | | | Use grass clippings as mulch around your |
| gentle levels of nitrogen, potassium and | | | | vegetable plants to keep moisture in and |
| phosphorous.2. Remember that a good soaking | | | | weeds out. Just don't use the clippings |
| of water less often is better than a light | | | | right after you have fertilized your grass or |
| sprinkling every day -- for veggies and for | | | | treated for weed control.8. If you have |
| your lawn.3. If your neighbor has a plant | | | | access to them, pine needles make excellent |
| you particularly like, ask for a cutting, | | | | mulch.9. A natural, frugal garden pest |
| instead of going to the nursery and buying | | | | spray: mix 1 tablespoon of liquid |
| one. Maybe you could trade a cutting from | | | | dishwashing soap and 1 cup of cooking oil. |
| one of your own plants.4. To easily water a | | | | Use 3 tablespoons of this mixture to 1 quart |
| tomato plant, bury a bottomless coffee can | | | | of water and spray on plants.10. In the herb |
| next to the plant and pour the water into the | | | | garden, to keep plants like mint from taking |
| can. This allows the water to go straight to | | | | over too big an area, put it in a clay pot |
| the roots.5. Plant marigolds in your | | | | and simply plant the whole pot!"He who plants |
| vegetable garden. They will attract insects | | | | a garden, plants happiness. |