GROW A THRIVING GARDEN WHILE SAVING MONEY
BE SURE TO FOLLOW THESE STEPS!
While it may be the fall season now, the temperature is still warm enough to encourage root growth for a garden! During the fall, you can plant blueberries, broccoli, garlic, radishes, spinach, lettuce, and several flowers such as asters, calendulas, and cosmos. However, planting can become expensive, especially if you have large metal raised beds for your garden. It may take several bags of soil to fill your garden bed, which can quickly put a dent in your wallet. Is there anything you can do to save money?
weeds and other invasive plants from growing in your garden. And these limbs and twigs will provide much-needed bulk, minimizing the amount of soil needed to fill your containers. Step 3: Sprinkle grass clippings and shredded leaves. Nitrogen and carbon are essential to any garden because plants need nutrients to grow. While you can purchase nitrogen fertilizer at the store, recycling grass clippings and shredded leaves is a cheaper and environmentally friendly alternative. You can also toss food scraps on this layer for additional nutrients!
Yes! Follow these four steps and watch your garden — and greenbacks — flourish.
Step 4: Top with soil and compost. Finally, you can begin adding your soil. Because the bed is filled with other
Step 1: Lay down cardboard. After setting up your raised garden bed, add a layer of cardboard (any type of cardboard will do) to the bottom of it. This layer will prevent weeds lurking in the dirt underneath the cardboard from sprouting and growing in the soil you will add later.
materials, you won’t need as much! After applying a good amount of soil, you can add compost to the mix if desired. Once everything is to your liking and your beds are full of soil and nutrients, you’re
Step 2: Add sticks and small logs. Similar to cardboard, adding sticks and logs will prevent
ready to plant. Happy harvesting, everyone!
SLEEP YOUR STRESS AWAY The Ultimate Secret to Rejuvenating Body and Mind
We talked a lot on page 1 about the actual culprit of what many believe to be adrenal fatigue: stress. There are many ways to help your body recover from stress, but the most effective way to reduce stress is to get a good night’s sleep. Why? Because as you sleep, your body repairs any physical or mental “damage” that occurred during the day. These damages aren’t always a torn muscle, sprained leg, or achy back, but instead, fighting against any inflammation or infection. Sleep also allows your body to balance its hormones. So, if you struggle with getting enough sleep each night, there are a few things you can do to help yourself catch those z’s. No. 1: Journaling can put your mind at ease. One of the most common reasons my patients tell me they can’t sleep is due to a racing mind. The most powerful tool against this is, believe it or not, journaling!
Before you go to bed, open a journal and simply write down everything you’re thinking about. Think of it as a stream of consciousness; if you think it, you write it. The analogy I like is that you’re physically “clearing” your mind by doing two critical things. First, you’re telling your subconscious that you won’t forget all the important things you’re so worried about and that it’s safe to return to them later. Second, you’re exhausting yourself by writing out all of your thoughts. Writing is a lot more labor intensive than thinking, and by combining the two, you tire yourself from thinking about those things for the day. An empty mind means an easier time falling asleep! No. 2: Take magnesium! Aside from journaling, my number one recommendation to help people fall asleep is to take magnesium — NOT melatonin. This is because magnesium helps your body regulate its own melatonin instead of dumping artificial amounts of the hormone
into your body. As magnesium enables you to produce melatonin on its own, you’ll quickly fall asleep without needing a sleep aid to force you there. No. 3: Try Ashwagandha. If magnesium doesn’t help you, the next thing I recommend is Ashwagandha, which is a plant in the nightshade family. Many who take Ashwagandha supplements report feeling sleepier without pesky morning time grogginess!
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