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Step 1
You can easily cut your gardening expenses and save a lot of money by hosting a garden plant exchange this spring. Start by inviting 8-10 neighbors or friends who you know are interested in gardening. Make the invitations informal by using an online site, such as evite.com to send out email invitations.
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Step 2
Ask everyone to bring 3-4 gardening plants to exchange. The gardening plants can be specially purchased for the event, or plants they split from their own garden, or perennial herbs or spices which may have come back in their own garden.
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Step 3
Ask your guests to include (with each gardening plant) a small card with instructions containing information as you'd get from a gardening centers. The cards should have information such as the plant's sun requirements (sun or shade), bloom time and time to fruit, etc.
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Step 4
Organize the gardening plants on an outside table (weather permitting) according to their type such as vegetable section, an herb section, and/or a fruit section. Alternatively, you can set up plants based on sun requirement or space requirements.
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Step 5
Allow everyone to look over the plants and select as many gardening plants to take home as they brought to the exchange. You can even use this time to set up a vegetable exchange party in the future so everyone can share the fruits (yes, punning again...) of their labor.
Comments
derbyka said
on 6/15/2009 This sounds like a great way to cut down on gardening costs.
ginafur said
on 4/28/2009 We do vegetable exchanges quite often here in the south and have for years...You pick from my garden and I pick from yours. A garden plant exchange is another wonderful idea to add to this. Thanks.
langleycornwell said
on 4/27/2009 Great idea and article on how to host a garden plant exchange. 5*s.
dlcass said
on 4/21/2009 This is a great idea. I've been wanting to get the neighborhood together for something. A plant exchange would be a lot of fun.
jdds08 said
on 4/20/2009 Wonderful idea!