The $25 Victory Garden Challenge
By Vanessa Richins
It began with a simple message on Twitter from @joegardener:
Interested in seeing me do a daily vid blog of starting organic food garden from seed? Goal 2 feed my fam of 4 on only $25 of supplies! Yes?
10:57 AM Mar 12th from TweetDeck
@joegardener happens to be the Twitter ID of Joe Lamp’l. He is the host of TV garden shows - Fresh From the Garden on DIY Network and GardenSMART on PBS, as well as the author of Over the Fence with joe gardener and The Green Gardener’s
That single post bloomed into the $25 Organic Victory Garden Challenge. He’s committed to showing people that it doesn’t have to be expensive to have an organic garden, even if you don’t have any tools or supplies.
His ideas are creative - he took an empty plastic cake box from his daughter’s birthday party, added cardboard pizza boxes trimmed to fit, and voila! - a free greenhouse for starting seedlings. Since I run a large, active Freecycle, I wrote a guest post about how you can use Freecycle to find tools, supplies, seeds and plants.
The rules can be found on his blog. You can also find videos on there - he just appeared on Good Morning America 2 times recently promoting gardening the first time and the $25 VG specifically the second time.
As part of the project, I started a Facebook page where people can post up messages to swap items, as well as learn from each other about saving money in the garden.
I highly recommend following this project throughout the growing season so you can learn how to garden on the cheap.
How are you saving money in your own yard?
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