Blog

Blog Feed

7

Garden Tips from Personal Finance Bloggers

by Elle on July 27, 2010

I am now officially a personal finance blogger. Do I have 5,000 subscribers? No. Do I have a 100,000 visitors a month? No.

 

fresh tomatoes

Fresh tomatoes are great for homemade salsa.

I reached a bigger miletone- I have a garden.
It seems like many personal finance bloggers are now only getting their finances in order, they’re cultivating their own little productive land.

Don’t believe me? Check out my gardening round up below, it’s a good group. I wrote about my garden tips and experience over at Five Cent Nickel.

It’s definitely a learning experience, but I’m really enjoying it. Having fresh herbs and foods from our little garden and our friends’ gardens is a great improvement with our meals.

In case you’re curious about what we have in our spot, here’s the list.

  • Icebox Watermelon
  • Tomato
  • Cucumber
  • Bell Pepper
  • Eggplant
  • Basil
  • Thyme

Some of the plants are ready yet, so I’m waiting eagerly to have some watermelon.

Resources on Starting and Maintaining your Own Little Garden

If you’re thinking of starting a garden or you want to improve the results of your garden, here are some wonderful posts from other personal finance blogs.

Frugal Dad

Five Cent Nickel

Get Rich Slowly

The Simple Dollar

Being Frugal

Your Take on Personal Finance and Gardening

How many of you have a home garden? How long have you’ve been taking care of it? If you’re not on the lists, please let me know in the comments. I’ll include a link to your garden post.

Photo Credit: OliBac

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Get Free Email Updates

I take your privacy very seriously

About Elle

If you enjoyed today's post and want to receive the latest from Couple Money, please join our free newsletter or subscribe to our RSS feed.

Tagged as: garden tips

  • http://www.familybalancesheet.org Kristia@FamilyBalanceSheet

    I have a garden. I have been gardening for years, but this year I followed the square foot gardening method and I am pleased with the results. I write about gardening a lot right now as it seems like the garden is taking over my time.

    I planted a watermelon last year and picked it too early. I was so bummed.

  • Elle

    Thank Krista for sharing your story. What got you into square foot gardening?

  • http://www.familybalancesheet.org Kristia@FamilyBalanceSheet

    The SFG method has been around for years, but I saw a lot of bloggers were having success with it. People like JD at Get Rich Slowly and Erin at $5 Dinners. We built a 4 X 10 box about 7 or 8 years ago, so we were half way there, but I wasn’t using the space efficiently which is SFG. This year I gridded the bed and I was able to plant so much more.

  • http://notmadeofmoney.com/blog/2010/08/yakezie-challenge-carnival-roundup.html Yakezie Challenge Carnival Roundup For August 1, 2010 | Not Made Of Money

    [...] Couple Money provides Garden Tips from Personal Finance Bloggers. [...]

  • http://frugalzeitgeist.com/a-sunday-yakezie-post-roundup/ A Sunday Yakezie Post Roundup

    [...] Elle at Couplemoney give us another roundup style post pointing to a lot of great gardening tips posts from other PF Bloggers. I have plans for a balcony vegetable garden coming up so this reading is important for me: Garden Tips from Personal Finance Bloggers. [...]

  • http://moneysmartlife.com/summer-vacation-edition/ Summer Vacation Edition | Money Smart Life

    [...] Garden Tips from Personal Finance Bloggers @ Couple Money [...]

  • http://www.moneyedup.com/ Moneyedup

    It’s great to hear about your garden! Another great feature about backyard gardens is that you can now use all your organic materials for compost (if you have the space). This is great for the environment because organic materials that go into the trash dump can’t decompose properly.

Previous post:

Next post: