You're listening to the Joe Gardner show, the podcast all about gardening,

where we cover everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

And now, here's your guy, National Gardening Television Host,

and the Joe behind Joe Gardner, Joe Lample.

Hey everybody, it's Joe Lample,

the Joe behind Joe Gardner and your host for the Joe Gardner's show.

Thanks so much for being here today.

And today it's just you and me.

We don't need anybody else to help us with this topic today.

We're talking about how to save money in the

garden. Simple ways that you can grow what you want to grow and have the garden that

you want to have, but spend little to nothing to make that happen.

Now, is that really possible?

Well, yes it is, and the way I can tell you firsthand that I know it's possible

is that several years ago, I was given a challenge. I was on a phone call with one

of my marketing team members. And at the time the economy was down and people were starting

to grow a lot more of their own food to save money

on their produce bill and for many of these people they had never grown food

before but they thought what a great way to save some money and that would make sense except that if you don't have any of that material to get started

How do you get that? Well you either buy it or you come up with ways to create that.

So she threw the challenge out at me and said, I've got an idea.

Why don't you create a garden to feed your entire family of four for the entire season all their produce needs and do it for

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