Month of Savings - Day 30

Today's money saving tip is to grow a garden. If you want to be even more budget conscientious, start your plants from seed. I am blessed to have a greenhouse where my potted plants can spend the winter and my spring seeds can get a head start. On the subject of seeds... if you do not use all of the seeds one season, do not toss them out. Put the packets in a zip top baggie and store them in your refrigerator. Most of the seeds I used this year are 1-2 seasons old. I have had good germination and sprouting on all of them. I gave myself a challenge to grow everything from seed this year that included all of my flowers.

Here are a few of my seedlings. I have tomatoes, basil, peppers, mesclun , popcorn, cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, and mums left from last year.

This is watermelons, herbs, tomatoes, larger lettuce plants, and lots of flowers.

I adore ferns. They are easy to grow and can be divided each year into more plants. These Japanese painted ferns started out as one plant that I bought for $6 at Lowe's last year. Now I have two plants not counting the one I can to my mom.

These are aloe plants. I started out with two pots that were long past needing to be repotted. I ended up with about 30 pots of aloe. I am hoping to sell some of these at the yard sale.