When starting a vegetable garden, don't be overambitious. Vegetable gardening isn't rocket science but can be demanding, and the best way to learn is through experience.
Start with a small bed before turning your whole lawn into a vegetable garden. This way, you will learn how to manage resources, time, energy and harvests without wasting them.
Cost-effective tips
• For the price of eight seedlings, you can buy hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of seeds. Planting from seed offers a broader choice too.
• Share seeds - there are usually far more in one packet than a home gardener can use.
• Get together with fellow gardeners and buy seedlings in bulk at wholesale prices.
• Plant what you'll eat. Don't let photos on seed packets seduce you into planting vegetables you and your family don't enjoy.
• Grow what's expensive at the greengrocer. Plants like rocket and basil are ridiculously costly but really easy to grow and provide abundant harvests.
This story is from the Garden&Home; September 2023 issue edition of South African Garden and Home.
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