Garden Savings

              

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Money Saving Minute #040
Garden Savings

Kip Warzon     NMLS 289451

Keeping a flower or vegetable garden can put a lot of demands on your time and your wallet. However, there are some things you can do to lighten the budget and free up your gardening schedule. Here are some money-saving gardening tips:

Slugs are harmful to your plants but can be easily dismayed by beer.  That’s right, slugs love beer.  Bury an empty jar or plastic tub in the garden soil. The top rim should be level with the soil surface. Fill the container with beer and leave it overnight.  The slugs will crawl in and no more slug. Empty the tub every day or two then rebury and refill with beer.  Repeat until the tub makes it through several nights without a guest.

If you go through a lot of labels save some money by creating your own by cutting plastic milk jugs or yogurt cups into strips.  Saves money and when they are no longer usable they are recyclable.

Removing an unsightly old tree stump from your yard can be expensive. An alternative is to make it into a planter. In nature, old stumps slowly begin to decay and provide fertile places for ferns and other interesting small plants to grow.

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