Your First Garden: How to Start a Garden for Practically Free via Gardenista

With a small budget, can you still start a garden? When my husband and I moved into our new home, we had a pretty good idea of how much money we would have to spend to furnish it, to give it a coat of fresh paint, to remodel the kitchen. We knew those costs all would land on the high end of too much, but because we expected them, we were able to budget for the expenditures. Plants, though, were not something we ever thought we would need to save for. (The costs of window coverings also floored us. See Domestic Dispatches: 5 Ways to Cover 50 Windows on a Budget for some great advice.)