Top 10 Money Saving Landscaping Tips 

Even those of us who are interested in landscaping and gardening can be equally passionate about saving time and money doing it. Reducing effort and expense on your landscaping chores is all about knowing the best times to perform certain tasks around your gardens and lawn. Whether it’s maintenance or planning or installing – learning the seasons is key for making sure you time your work so that it’s cost- and time-effective.

Learn how to save money on landscaping. We have 10 money saving landscaping Tips that you will love. Tips to save money to have your yard looking amazing!

Buy Smaller Plants

If you’re not the impatient type, purchasing smaller plants – a 4-inch pot instead of 1 gallon or a 1 gallon instead of a 5 – will save you a pretty penny.

Use Seeds

There's the first investment of lights, trays and planting mix, it doesn’t take more money and starts saving dramatically. “You’ll get a lot more plants – some packets have 100 seeds, To save even more, and even you can reuse trays. If plants grown in a tray didn’t show symptoms of a disease, just clean them with soap and water. If there was any kind of disease, wash trays and then disinfect with a solution of 1 part bleach to 9 parts water. To save even more, sprout seeds in egg cartons, newspaper rolled into plastic or cylinders cartons with holes buying in the bottom for water drainage.

Make Your own Compost

This process takes more time, but it saves a lot of money, you can use your kitchen scraps and backyard waste and start making your own.

If you’ve got your own chicken or livestock or know someone who does, mix manure and covers into the compost pile for an even richer end result. Make sure you let the mixture decompose well. 

Shop sales

Search out-group plant sales, normally abundant in spring. Check newspaper calendars, ask friends, contact Landscapers in your area to see if they are holding a sale or know of any. At nurseries, shop during the days of summer or in late fall. 

Save seeds

Collecting seeds at the final season makes sense when you’re looking to save money or even if you’re not.

Make use of recycled materials

Garage sales, thrift shops and the classified sections in the newspapers and online shopping sites normally have gardening material, everything from used rock to pots and brick and old tools, at greatly minimizing prices or free. It’s also fun to forage for natural materials such as stones or interesting stems to make edging or bamboo poles for fences.

Hold a plant and seed swap

Dig up plant “babies” or divide larger plants. Set by some of those tomato plants you started from seed.

Make your plant collection with cuttings

Propagating by cuttings can be as difficult or easy as you want to make it.

Attract beneficial insects

Instead of using chemicals or even organic products, plant things that attract beneficial insects that will eat the bad bugs and balance your garden’s ecosystem. 

Split a load of mulch

Save on delivery costs by purchasing a load of mulch or compost with a neighbor. Save even more by keeping your eyes uncovered for arborists taking down trees. They’ll usually share wood chips that you can turn into mulch. 

Bottom Line

We hope that you would love the idea of landscapes being “cheap”, but here’s the truth: they aren’t. The way we save money is to be smart and plan your work to maximize wins while minimizing losses.

Guest Contributor: Sarah Sugden