Gardening on a Budget Part 2: Trashing Your Urban Garden

By Michael Nolan

Show of hands - how many urban gardeners out there either bag up the leaves and grass clippings and put them on the curb or pay someone to take them off your hands?

Now of those, how many spend money on fertilizers and plant foods to give your garden plants an extra boost? That’s what I thought.

Today’s lesson on budget gardening is to get trashy.

No, not COPS trashy. In this case we’re talking about using what you already have on hand - probably what you’re tossing in the garbage pail - to turbo charge your urban garden. Now I understand that a lot of urban gardeners don’t have the space to compost (some of you don’t even have a yard at all), and I’ve got a few pointers for you Read the rest of this entry »