{"id":10720,"date":"2011-09-03T06:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2011-09-01T06:33:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:33:29","slug":"budget-busting-gardeners-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/budget-busting-gardeners-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Busting Gardeners Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSun and rain are free <\/strong>so optimise the use of these natural resources<\/p>\n

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Garden on a Low Budget<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • Collect seeds and start to raise your own plants. Use resources like books, the web or seed company advice flyers to find sowing and storage information. I have several interesting roses grown from collected hips.<\/li>\n
  • Buy small plants so the can establish well and mature. Larger perennials can often be divided before being planted out.<\/li>\n
  • Mulch you garden and key plants with 2-3″ of well rotted organic material. It will condition the soil, keep weeds down and improve water retention. Mulch on top of damp soil not dry soil.<\/li>\n
  • Scare birds off your brassicas with a potato stuck with birds feathers and suspended from a near by tree or make your own scarecrow.<\/li>\n
  • Reuse plant labels after rubbing them down with an abrasive or cleaning agent.<\/li>\n
  • Grow new plants\u00c2\u00a0 such as fuschia, chrysanthemumns, marguerites and pelargoniums. Many others plants will grow from cuttings.<\/li>\n
  • Buy secondhand tools and invest in a sharpening stone to hone them down.<\/li>\n
  • Make your own compost mixing green and brown waste.<\/li>\n
  • Scrounge form other gardeners, they often have more plants or seeds than they need and most are good hearted souls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Make do and Mend<\/h2>\n
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    • Reuse and repurpose items into the garden. You can find interesting containers this way. Just make sure there is a drainage hole.<\/li>\n
    • Repair broken items that can be used in the garden.<\/li>\n
    • Use hazel twigs as canes to support your growing plants.<\/li>\n
    • Make your own crazy paving from ‘found stones’. I have rockeries and small walls from stone I have collected along the way.<\/li>\n
    • Stables often offer free horse muck if you collect it, ditto seaweed.<\/li>\n
    • Do not bother with chemicals in the garden. Sure you may loose some plants but an organic garden tends to get into a form of balance with nature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Garden on a low budget with gardeners tips with ‘found stone’ free seeds and many other tips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}