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Here is a very interesting article on how you can apply the fugal lifestyle to your garden. If you have been to a plant store or even your local home depot or hardware store you know how painfully expensive it can be to keep up with your garden, flower beds or just maintaining your lawn areas.
This article is bang on with its comment on how much we spend and waste in trying to be more green. It details how one gardener used frugal living to build and keep her garden.
"Tamara Mitchell doesn't think it has to be that way.Many of the plants in her West Akron yard were end-of-season markdowns or freebies that either sprouted from seeds deposited by birds or were propagated from other plants. The trellises she constructed to support her pole beans and cucumbers were fashioned from the posts of an old chain-link fence and inexpensive wire mesh for reinforcing concrete. The path leading to an outdoor faucet was made from pieces of slate salvaged from a friend's foyer."
"That kind of frugality has been overshadowed by the big business of gardening, which beckons us to spend on specialized containers, trendy tools and the instant gratification of good-size plants. And now that organic gardening has become mainstream, a product's environmental friendliness is being used as a marketing tool, said Maureen Gilmer, a champion of thrifty gardening who lives in Palm Springs, Calif."
Frugal garden reaps savings
Read more on Akron Beacon Journal
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