I didn’t get as much done this week as I’d hoped.  In my dreams I would have had the entire garden planted.  I went from giving up on gardening before I had even started tooo at least planting some of my purple basil and green basil plants in a little flower bed up near the [...]

It’s strawberry season!  I love strawberry season.   We use strawberries year round but I especially love fresh strawberries.  Usually I freeze strawberries instead of canning them.  We use frozen strawberries for making fruit smoothies, strawberry syrup for pancakes and crepes and strawberry muffins.  Strawberries make life happier!
A friend of mine pruned her strawberry patch and [...]

I’ve decided that I don’t make a good gardener being 7 months pregnant in the heat of summer.  I haven’t been able to work in the garden very much this year which is quite discouraging to me.  However, I’m become more ok with that fact.  After all, I am growing a baby this year! 
My children [...]

We had an incredibly rainy month in May.  My garden is growing leaps in bounds with both plants and weeds.  I usually keep the weeds down with hay mulch, but I’m out of hay and needing to go pick up some more soon! 
I’ve been amazed at my little lettuce and cabbage plants.  They are huge now!  They’ve been [...]

One of my dreams is to have a wonderful strawberry patch one day soon.  For now, I just have a few little plants in a planter pot on the front porch that have been giving me a few strawberries here and there.  I love strawberries!
Tis’ the season to stock up on strawberries!  Strawberries are in [...]

For several weeks, we’ve been eating lettuce and Bok Choi or Pak Choi Chinese cabbage out of our garden.  It has been very nice to not have to buy lettuce and cabbage at the grocery store and we are enjoying the incredible freshness it provides as well.  I’m also enjoying the savings the lettuce and [...]

The Penny Pantry multi tasks when it comes to building a large pantry for pennies!  You can build a nice pantry stockpile using coupons at the grocery store, but I believe to really build a pantry for pennies, you need to utilize a garden and canning!  You can really cut your grocery bill by incorporating [...]

I spent the afternoon in the garden.  It is still too early to plant tomatoes, squash, beans and peppers.  But it is perfect weather for planting  lettuce, onions, cabbage, and other cool weather vegetables.
My garden now isn’t by any means anything grand.  The things planted in the garden now will drastically cut the grocery bill [...]

Here’s a way to grow some really great produce for little to nothing! 

I found seeds for $.20 cents a package at the Dollar Store (Dollar General) and at Walmart.  I found lots of vegetables and herb seeds and some of them were even heirloom varieties.  I bought herb seeds like parsley, basil and dill.  I [...]

I ran across Ruth Stout last year when a friend of mine (Thanks, Sherry) apologizing gave me a video about Ruth Stout.  I say apologizing because Ruth Stout was a bit quirky and odd in some of her thinking and practices.  Despite that fact, there is a wealth of gardening knowledge that one can gain [...]

For all you who have spring fever, here’s a group of articles to inspire you to plant something this year!  Have you thought about cultivating cash in your garden?  Well, true, you money doesn’t grow on trees or in the garden, however, gardening is one of the best ways to slash your grocery bill!  Whether [...]

Gardening is definitely making a comeback.  Different sources speculate exactly why that is.

Mostly the recession.  Bad economic times are pricking that “survival” instinct and people are appreciating those little garden seeds once again.  It’s not hard to calculate the finances on a few seeds and what they can produce and that’s why more people are [...]