Frugal Living Tip -Amazing Garbage Gardening Secrets!

Canadian Freebie Finders -Need Free Food? Try Growing Garbage!

Canadians living in northern Canada, really have a tough time with grocery prices. We recently moved to northern Ontario to start a women's respite in our home. The cost of food is crazy!
What can you do?
We started growing food in all kinds of containers inside, because the growing season is so short.
Some of our best plants are what I call my garbage garden.
Have you tried growing garbage?
This post has tips on starting a garbage garden and some plants that are working well for us I'm our garbage garden.

How do you get garbage veggies for growing food in your garden?
Here are a few tips that can help you grow your own garbage garden.

2 Ways to Start Your Garbage Garden

Have some veggies in your fridge  headed for the garbage?
Stop!
Don't throw them out!
Plant them!
Next time you head to the grocery store check out the mark down rack for veggies that are wayyy past being edible, then take them to the grocery manager and ask if you can use them for your garden. Some produce managers will take one look at the decaying mess and mark them down 100%.
Which veggies have we had the most success with?

Garbage Garden Veggies

Beets

We plant soft beets and continually harvest beet greens from them.Just keep cutting the leaves and more grow back! Small tiny leaves are wonderful salad greens, large leaves can be steamed like spinach.

Turnip Greens

Plant a soft turnip and continually harvest turnip greens , as per above.

Carrots 

Limp carrots will actually revive in soil. You can also plant carrot tops and harvest the leaves for salad greens.

Fennel

Fennel, regrows the tops really well. Use the feathery parts in salad.

Celery

We've had limited success with regrowing  celery. For best results, trim a bit off the bottom and leave the tiny centre stalks to grow. Use the leaves in salads and stews. You can dry the leaves and crumble them into a spice jar.

Dandelion Seeds

Dandelion seeds are free for the taking in almost every yard. Grow dandelions in pots in a sunny window. Harvest tiny leaves for salad, but be sure to eat them before 3pm as they are a natural diuretic. There is a reason the French slang for dents de lion is pis-en-lit!

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