Garden Budget - 2009

Following J.D. Roth over at Get Rich Slowly, Nicole and I are keeping track of our expenses/gains for our garden this year. We're not too concerned about spending a bit more money than we would otherwise for fruit and veg, as we do it mainly for the taste and enjoyment, but it's a good practice in any case. Budgeting: always good, never bad.

So, thus far, we've bought all of our seeds for this year's garden, courtesy of Greta's organic seeds. (There really is a Greta, by the way, and she's just as you imagine her: long grey pony tail, plaid shirt and with a hint of an accent. I think she's Danish) Last year we used old seeds and the germination was terrible. We think they got a bit moist in the move. Thus, we decided to spend a bit more up front and invest in some heirlooms, from which we can save the seeds and use them again and again. We could even barter them, I suppose, if we get good at it.

So, we bought all of the seeds listed in the previous post and a few others for our friends who wanted some. We're splitting the cost three ways, so that saves a bit of money. We also bought a bag of potting soil for starting the seeds.

February
Seeds: -$25.00
Starting soil: -$3.19
Total Expenditures for February: -$28.19
Total Gains: $0.00

I'll be starting my onions today. I've never planted onions from seed before, so we'll see how that goes. We've been saving plastic containers with lids as mini-greenhouse starters; I just need to do a bit of research on how to do it properly.