Backyard Landscaping Ideas:
Inexpensive and Free Backyard Landscaping Ideas

Here are some free backyard landscaping ideas that are inexpensive or without cost. Although building features like decks or patios can get expensive, you don’t have to pay a lot for plants. Plants provide many benefits, including adding beauty to your landscape and home.

Buy Seeds

Seeds are far less expensive than plants or seedlings. You can get 30 or more plants (in seed form) for a couple of dollars. A bag of potting soil costs a couple of bucks.In comparison, If you bought bedding plants you could easily spend a couple hundred dollars.

Here's what you do: start the seeds indoors several months before planting time. You don’t have to buy pots. You can use egg cartons, plastic yogurt cups or other items that would normally end up in the garbage.

You don’t even need a greenhouse or a lot of space. The kitchen counter, a bar or table will work just fine.

Save Your Apple Seeds

Once you eat the apple, you can remove the seeds from the remaining core. You start the seeds inside as you would with seeds that come in a package. Keep well watered and near a sunny spot. In just a few weeks, the seeds will start to sprout. You can continue growing them inside for as long as you like. Eventually, you will want to find a nice spot for your backyard apple grove and move the plants outdoors.

While the trees are still young, they will need some extra support in order to grow straight and tall. Here’s another place where you can reuse something from inside of your home. Old pantyhose, socks or nylon stockings great items for tying your baby trees to a stake. They provide support, but they also “give”.

Get Some Cuttings

Here’s another of the free backyard landscaping ideas that won’t cost you a thing. You can grow some shrubs from a cutting. You need only ask the owner of the existing shrub if they mind if you take a piece.

Late fall and winter are the best times to get cuttings. It’s also when many people are pruning their shrubs. So you could easily have access to all that you need. Simply put the cuttings in a vase of water and wait on roots to form. Once the roots form, you can transfer them to potting soil. Keep the soil moist and plant the shrub in the spring after the danger of frost has passed.

These free backyard landscaping ideas are ones that I have used myself, so I know they are "keepers". The strong sense of satisfaction that comes from innovation and creativity - even if funds are a little tight - can carry you a long ways towards delighting more in your outdoor space.

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