How to Start a Vegetable Garden on a Budget in 2021

These budget vegetable garden for beginners tips will help you start growing delicious vegetables to eat them later without spending a fortune.

There are a number of reasons to start a vegetable garden – not least the great taste that freshly picked vegetables give you, or the access to seasonal vegetables.  However, while it can be an expensive business getting together the tools, seeds, plants, and equipment to start your own vegetable garden it needn’t be.  Our 6 easy tips for starting a budget vegetable garden will get you growing your own quickly, easily and with the minimal outlay or your time, effort, and importantly money.

You’ll need your shopping receipts to work this outlook for the vegetables that you use most regularly and how much they cost.  If you opt for the ones that cost you the most money, then growing them yourself is going to help you save more money. 

There are several vegetables that you can grow to save money, but my favorite example of this is salad leaves and lettuce.  Last week a bag of salad leaves cost $1.30 or the offer was 2 bags for $2.  Now we would normally use 2 bags of salad leaves over a week, especially if the weather is warm.  Compare that to a bag of salad leaf seeds costing less than $1 – AND producing the same result as 24 bags of salad leaves from the supermarket and you can see how you’re going to be able to save money.  

You can easily grab a selection bag of seeds and mix up your salad intake, rather than just growing the same all the time too.