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2025: Budget-Minded Gardening

2025: Budget-Minded Gardening

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Explore practical, budget-friendly strategies so you can maintain a thriving garden while managing household expenses.

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    There is much that home gardeners can do to adapt their gardening practices in the face of the increasing financial obligations to budgeting a household. In this year’s edition of The Prairie Garden, you can learn all about how the three R’s (reduce, reuse & recycle) can help you keep a garden. Learn how to save seeds & store rain water. Find out a way to keep pests like rabbits and deer from ravaging your tender new transplants. Whether you are a newcomer or a veteran gardener, there is much you can do to ensure that the garden you love does not need to go by the wayside. And, of course like always, there are numerous articles of general interest to all who garden during our brief and so sweet summers.

  • TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Budget-Minded Gardening

     

    Plant propagation Stuart Innes
    Thrifty and environmentally friendly gardening Dr. Eva Pip
    Spare a little love for your garden tools

    Sheryl Normandeau

    Saving your water-ollas! Janet Melrose
    Thrifty winter sowing Derek Yarnell
    Favourite unconventional plant pots Linda Dietrick
    Buying fruit, in this economy!? Tips on growing your own fruit forest Carl Durand
    Growing microgreens: a financial analysis Lesa Guy
    Good gardening practices leave us richer than we think Alex Henderson
    The three R’s Diana Dhaliwal
    Lilies galore Leanne Dowd
    Growing your own food opens the door to nutrition security Tania Scott
    Gardening outside the box: it’s for everyone Linda Wall
    Garden décor on a dime Dorothy Dobbie
    A seed-saving story… Debbie Innes
    An easy way to see if old seed can be used Ian Wise
    Thrifty drought gardening with peonies Myra Froc
    Save time and money and create a better-looking garden Tim Wood
    Changing the way you garden Brenda Evans
    Beware of free plants Linda Dietrick
    Growing tomatoes from seed Gerald Filipski
    The benefits of growing your own fruit: the case of southern Manitoba Indy Mitra
    Creating a fruit tree guild

    Elizabeth Sellors

    Fresh water conservation and gardening Meera Sinha
    The right rate of fertilizer Lyle Cowell
    Poem: A Gardener’s Dilemma Stu Innes
    Eight easy ways to save money in the garden

    Suzanne Simpson

    A tale of water barrels, IBC totes, and water conservation Tim Evans

     

     

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