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To save time and money on your garden veggies, talk with neighbors and co workers about what they plan to grow this year. Finding three people to plant different things and sharing the crops!

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This is especially handy if you do not can veggies for crops like tomatoes, cucumbers and beans!

- Submitted by JILLIEWILLE1 3/26/2010 in Everything Else | 3 Comments

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ANDI_3K 5/14/2010 5:13:00 PM

you don't need much space....in fact all you need is a corner or two to hold large pots. Container gardening will work in most places. Get a Pot from Target or Home Depot, some seedlings and some soil and you're good to go. If you don't want to go large you can use your window sills and smaller pots for things like herbs and smaller peppers. :)

TTLEELEE 4/3/2010 4:48:00 PM

Between my Dad's wife, me and my neighbor the tomatoes are great. I also participate in local farm share and pass those on too. This adds potatoes, other kinds of squash, and the ever so wonderful garlic scape!! Spring is here and my mouth is watering!

*MADHU* 3/26/2010 9:58:00 AM

I'd love to do this someday...my G'MIL has maintained an ornamental garden and is good at that...would love to have a vegetable corner for myself in the same place.

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