Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 29, 2015

There are few healthier and better ways to save money than organically growing your own fruit and vegetables in your own garden. Selecting your soil. Starting off your plants. Types of plants to grow. Maintenance. Image by Edsel Little used under the Creative Commons License.

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Grow Your Own Growing Saving Money Money 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 7, 2011

If you’ve ever purchased organic vegetables from your local grocery store, you know it can be quite expensive. Yet, you pay the prices because you want to provide chemical-free vegetables for you and your family. Luckily, organic vegetables can be grown in the comfort of your own backyard. Pest Control.

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Grow Your Own Growing Organic Organization 145

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MARCH 24, 2014

Growing up, I remember my mom always sending me out to the composting bin with a bucket full of (what I thought was) gross bits and pieces of food waste. I remember opening the lid of our composting bin and what felt like a billion wasps, bees, and fruit flies coming out of the bin. Why Compost? What You Can Compost?

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Compost Composting Home and Garden Plants 222

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Composting is something my hubby and I do and love. Compost is possibly the most efficient and useful way of disposing of household waste; nearly 40% of this waste is compostable. Compost is then be used on the garden as an organic and valuable fertilizer and soil improver. Why make compost?

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Compost Composting Making Flowers and Plants 187

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 24, 2012

There really is nothing like the experience of eating something that you have just picked fresh from your own garden. More and more people like myself are returning to the joy of growing vegetables, herbs and even eggs right in their own backyards. Your home-grown veggies won’t have any nasty toxic residues on them.

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Gardening Garden Health Home and Garden 267

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 19, 2013

You were going to save a bundle on your grocery bill by growing your own vegetables and herbs. Instead, you broke your budget buying every gadget from the big box gardening store – not to mention the pricier mature plants and the chemicals to make them grow faster and produce more.

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Gardening Garden Money Flowers and Plants 202

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 12, 2012

You can have your soil tested if you have trouble growing things, or if your soil has been greatly disturbed by recent construction activity. Your state university most likely has an agricultural extension to which you can submit samples to be analyzed (for a fee – ours is$15 per sample).

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