Monthly Budget

February I had $58.75 to spend on my gardening supplies. I had a total of three trips to garden centers etc and spent $45.64 which broke down as follows:

$3.00   Strawberry Plants - bare roots
$7.98   Potting Soil 2 cu ft
$1.00   Lavender Seeds
$1.00   Mint Seeds
$1.50   Onion sets
$2.00   Small plastic containers x2
$1.00   Black Radish Seeds
$1.99   Mint plant 4"
$1.99   Thyme Plant 4"
$1.97   Pack of Stakes 6'
$7.87   Compost 3 cu ft
$2.18  Topsoil 2 cu ft
$2.50   Peat Pots x 50
$6.00   Jiffy propagator 72 cell
$3.96   Seeds (nasturtiums x2, onions, pumpkin)

I plan on buying more of the strawberry plants and small 4" herb starters as I get going this month. I'd like to find some cheap, fairly shallow ( approx 6" High, 12" wide), square planters for a strawberry tower in the back (and possibly front) garden, plus I'll need more soil amendments for the front garden as I progress and start planting more.

The main budget breaker for March will be making good trellising for the upcoming season and bark for mulch & walkways! Good job March looks to be a great budget month! After tallying up the figures from February the March budget looks like:

Feb garden credit = $13.11
Feb grocery 1/2* = $142.05
Feb Harvest tally  = $18.92

Grand total for March = $174.08

Wow! That seems a lot!!! BUT, the trellising supplies plus bark chips is really going to set me back this month so I definitely need that budget!!! Plus this was the whole point in having the budget! Finding other areas to cut back in, so that I could finally spend some money on the garden!!! Now the bigger  challenge will be letting myself USE that budget for March!


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*Money saved on groceries for February divided by 2