Grow a Flower Garden for $15 or Less

Seeing flowers growing and starting to bloom is one of the true joys of the summer months. While some people think of a flower garden as a luxury, it does not have to cost a lot of money. You can learn to be a frugal gardener. Planning ahead and buying seeds rather than plants will save a lot of money.

Join Online Gardening Forums

Many people offer free seeds online to other gardeners. Join a few online gardening forums. You will make new gardening friends and also find a new, inexpensive way to acquire seeds for your flower garden.

The National Gardening Association has an online seed swap forum, to join in go here. The website Organic Gardening also has a forum for seed swaps. You will find a wide variety of seeds available for swap at this forum. To go to the forum, click here.

Buy Inexpensive Flower Seeds Online

On Ebay and Etsy you can buy flower seeds at very inexpensive prices. Just put the name of the flower seed you want in the search box, such as sunflower seeds or pansy seeds. I recently saw listings of seeds for sale on Ebay such as 500 pansy seeds for $4 and 100 sunflower seeds for $1. At those prices you can have a yard full of flowers for $15 or less. You will also have some extra seeds to share with friends too. Why pay high retail prices for seeds when you can buy them so cheaply online?

Get Seeds from Friends

Many people collect seeds from the garden at the end of the summer growing season. If you ask someone with a large garden for some seeds they may be able to give you a bag of seeds for a wide variety of flowers. Gardening is a nurturing act. Thus many gardeners love to share seeds, knowing that they will help bring a new garden to life.

Plant Seeds Inside

Once you have seeds, cut down some old milk cartons to use as planters for the seeds. You can fill them with dirt from outside or get some bags of potting soil from the dollar store.

Keep the soil wet until the seeds sprout. Then place them in indirect sunlight. Wait until all danger of frost is past and then plant the seedlings outside.

It does not take a lot of money to create a beautiful flower garden. However, once the flowers are in bloom the value of the garden will be priceless. Start your seed hunt now and create an inexpensive and delightful flower garden.

Source:

National Gardening Association

Organic Gardening