🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach: https://eliasyoder.com<br /><br />There is always some new little trick to try in the garden, some small clever thing that saves you a bit of time, or a bit of money, or gives your plants a better chance of thriving. And the old people were full of such tricks, for when you have little money and must make do with what is at hand, you learn a hundred small ways to garden smarter and waste nothing.<br />I have gardened this Lancaster County ground my whole life, the way my father and his father did, and most of what I am about to show you I learned from them, for the old people gardened by their wits and their thrift more than by anything bought from a store. My grandfather had a saying he lived by, use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Near every one of these tricks is made from a thing you would have thrown away, and not a one of them asks you to spend a dime.<br />Here is what I walk you through in this one:<br />✓ Turning a long-handled tool into a measuring stick so you never hunt for the tape again<br /><br />✓ Making and renewing your own plant labels from scrap containers, broken tile, and smooth creek stones<br /><br />✓ Covering a fr
