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Planning Next Summer's Vegetable Garden

Posted 11-11-2007 at 08:17 PM by smgardener


I'm a little late finding this post, but last January, the Get Rich Slowly personal finance blog had a nice post about planning for their summer vegetable harvest and starting a garden. As they say in the post:

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Raising your own berries, fruits, and vegetables is a fun and rewarding way to save money. Our grocery bills drop dramatically during harvest season, and the food cannot be beat.
In any case, there's lots of good advice in there for starting a garden. Given their common sense financial advice, they recommend starting with herbs:

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Herbs are one of the most forgiving classes of plants to grow — almost as easy as weeds — especially the hardy perennial herbs. Except for excessively moist soil and total shade, almost any conditions will support herbs. They thrive in sunny, dry areas. Herbs are also some of the most frugal crops you can grow because they
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