Most gardeners don\u2019t live in the tropics or have acres of land to\u00a0spare, so choosing the right crops and materials to start a garden\u00a0with is something you aren\u2019t going to want to take lightly.\u00a0 It could\u00a0be a third of the way through your growing season before you realize\u00a0that you wasted all of that time, energy, money, and space in your\u00a0garden just to grow crops that you aren\u2019t going to benefit from.<\/p>\n
Over-enthusiastic seed purchases<\/strong><\/p>\n One thing to avoid is getting your ideas of what crops you are going\u00a0to grow from a seed catalog.\u00a0 Seed sellers don\u2019t make most of their\u00a0money off serious gardeners that have mature gardens already in place.\u00a0Gardeners with a garden that is several years, or even decades old,\u00a0are going to be able to get the bulk of their seeds for the following\u00a0year from the crops they are already growing.\u00a0 Beginner gardeners who\u00a0don\u2019t have a seed stock of their own and in many cases don\u2019t know what\u00a0crops to grow are most likely seed catalog’s biggest customers.<\/p>\n If you are, as most beginning gardeners are, working with limited\u00a0space and resources, then you don\u2019t need to grow 15 different types of\u00a0basil and kohlrabi (which you probably didn\u2019t know existed anyway\u00a0until you saw it in the seed catalog).\u00a0 Try to grow crops that\u00a0represent the nutrients you need and are already eating.<\/p>\n Extravagant\u00a0soil\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Another thing to avoid is buying good soil to start your garden and\u00a0then buying an expensive rotating compost bin as well.\u00a0 If you are\u00a0starting out in poor soil and adding amendments like potting soil or\u00a0bagged compost to your existing ground, then you are probably going to\u00a0need to add more long before you are going to be able to harvest any\u00a0from your rotating compost bin and your money would be better spent\u00a0little by little on bags of compost.\u00a0 If you are buying soil to start\u00a0raised beds, then you are going to have enough nutrients in the soil\u00a0already and be spending plenty of money to start out with.<\/p>\n Your money will go further if you simply buy compost to start your\u00a0garden and at the same time make a compost bin out of chicken wire and\u00a0two stakes which will cost you less than $15 compared to over $100 for\u00a0a rotating bin with much less capacity.<\/p>\n Gardens should be, among other things, a means to save money, not an\u00a0added expense.\u00a0 And there is no reason for them to be.<\/p>\n If you like\u00a0this, you might also like:<\/b><\/p>\n Most gardeners don\u2019t live in the tropics or have acres of land to\u00a0spare, so choosing the right crops and materials to start a garden\u00a0with is something you aren\u2019t going to want to take lightly.\u00a0 It could\u00a0be a third of the way through your growing season before you realize\u00a0that you wasted all of that time, energy,<\/p>\nAdvanced Gardening Course To Accelerate Your Food Production\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n
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