A Free and Easy to Make Vegetable Garden!
I, who am only a Sunday gardener, here is how I manage to obtain a small vegetable garden very easily, without paying anything.
Just from the seeds and stumps collected in my kitchen!
Every year, in the spring, I collect the seeds and stumps of my vegetables, before cooking them.
Then I plant them to obtain fruits and vegetables in my turn. Look :
1. Collect seeds from my vegetables and aromatic herbs
- I collect tomato seeds, varying the kinds (cherry tomatoes, beef hearts ...) of pepper, melon and also beans.
- I put them in the ground in pots with potting soil.
- I first bought my parsley and basil seeds and I grew them by planting them in the ground. It works ! So I don't missnever any aromatic herbs that I freeze as I go.
- As for the mint, I picked it from friends and planted it at home. I noticed that mint grows like weed! I have a full pot of it, obtained from a small branch put in the ground.
2. Plant the salad and cabbage stumps
The strains of salad, endives, cabbage and onions, collected during washing, are known to quickly give a new specimen. I couldn't miss it!
- When I cook, instead of throwing my stumps in the trash, I put them in a pot with soil.
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It's been 3 weeks since I planted alettuce stump in the ground, and several new small salads are already appearing.
It seems that a salad grows in 6 weeks, I'll see if I'm on time.
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3. Use free jars
Free seeds are good. But if it is necessary to invest in equipment, that does not suit me any more! This is why I use the D system.
- I use egg cartons (cardboard) for seedlings.
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- When the plants have grown (about 10 cm), I transfer them to salvage or DIY jars: I can thus personalize tin cans. A wine box or a plastic-lined pallet will also make a pretty planter. I can also make jars or suspensions with cinder blocks, books or old bottles.
4. I water for free thanks to my dishwater
By sprinkling with my dishwater (I only use a drop of dishwashing liquid) collected in a basin or the rinsing water of the vegetables when I cook, my plants cost me almost nothing, apart from the potting soil, that I enrich with my peelings and coffee grounds.
To discover : Coffee grounds, a very good free fertilizer for your plants.
I also use black soap against parasites, spraying it directly on plants infested with mealybugs or aphids, it is quite effective.
And thefood residues make a great fertilizer!
No watering can? An oldlaundry container will do!
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