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A Free and Easy to Make Vegetable Garden!

A Free and Easy to Make Vegetable Garden!

I am just a Sunday gardener...

But here's how I manage to get a small vegetable garden very easily, without paying anything.

Just from the seeds and stumps harvested in my kitchen!

Every year, in the spring, I collect the seeds and stumps of my vegetables.

I take them just before cooking them.

Then I plant them to get fruit and vegetables myself. Watch:

A Free and Easy to Make Vegetable Garden!

1. Collect seeds in my vegetables and aromatic herbs

- I collect tomato seeds, varying the sorts (cherry tomatoes, beef hearts...).

But I also take seeds of pepper, melon and also beans.

- I plant them in pots with potting soil.

- I first bought my parsley and basil seeds and grew them by planting them in the ground. It works!

So I don't miss never aromatic herbs that I freeze as I go.

- As for the mint, I picked it from friends and planted it at home. I realized that mint grows like a weed!

I have a full pot of it, obtained from a small branch put in the ground.

2. Plant the lettuce and cabbage stumps

The strains of lettuce, endives, cabbage and onions are collected at the time of washing.

They are known to give a new specimen quickly. I couldn't miss this!

- When I cook, instead of throwing my stumps in the trash, I put them in a pot with soil.

To discover: 10 Vegetables You Can Grow Over and Over at Home!

It's been 3 weeks since I planted a stump of lettuce in the ground. And several new little salads are already appearing.

It seems that a lettuce 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 you have to invest in equipment, it doesn't suit me anymore! That's why I use the D system.

- I use egg boxes (cardboard) for seedlings.

To discover: Use Eggshells As Seedling Pots To Save On Gardening.

- When the plants have grown (about 10 cm) I transfer them to recycled or DIY pots.

I can thus personalize tin cans. A plastic-lined wine crate or pallet will also make a lovely planter. I can also make pots or suspensions with cinder blocks, books or old bottles.

4. I water for free with my dishwater

To water with my dishwater, I only use a drop of dishwashing liquid. It is collected in a basin. Just like the rinsing water from vegetables when I cook,

My plants cost me almost nothing, apart from the soil. I take care to enrich it 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. Simply spray it directly on plants infested with scale insects or aphids. It's quite effective.

And the food residues make a great fertilizer!

No watering can? An old detergent can will do!

Your turn...

Have you tried these grandmother's tricks to make a vegetable garden easily and for free? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to read you!