Comments on: Using a Garden to Cut Your Grocery Bill http://pennypantry.com/gardening/using-a-garden-to-cut-your-grocery-bill/ Recapturing Art of Homemaking and Pantry Building While Living in a Modern World! Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:16:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Buying Local Bulk Produce: Plow Boy Auction | bulk foods http://pennypantry.com/gardening/using-a-garden-to-cut-your-grocery-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-909 Buying Local Bulk Produce: Plow Boy Auction | bulk foods Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:17:36 +0000 http://pennypantry.com/?p=2662#comment-909 [...] find a deal on some bushels of green beans.  Last year, I was able to can a lot of our own home grown green beans but, unfortunately, this year the few green bean plants that survived the piglet garden invasion [...] [...] find a deal on some bushels of green beans.  Last year, I was able to can a lot of our own home grown green beans but, unfortunately, this year the few green bean plants that survived the piglet garden invasion [...]

]]> By: Canning Greenbeans In The Garden | Canning http://pennypantry.com/gardening/using-a-garden-to-cut-your-grocery-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Canning Greenbeans In The Garden | Canning Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:45:13 +0000 http://pennypantry.com/?p=2662#comment-343 [...] to really build a pantry for pennies, you need to utilize a garden and canning!  You can really cut your grocery bill by incorporating gardening  and home canning into your money saving plans.  Not only that but you will be learning skills [...] [...] to really build a pantry for pennies, you need to utilize a garden and canning!  You can really cut your grocery bill by incorporating gardening  and home canning into your money saving plans.  Not only that but you will be learning skills [...]

]]> By: Carmen http://pennypantry.com/gardening/using-a-garden-to-cut-your-grocery-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Carmen Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:10:03 +0000 http://pennypantry.com/?p=2662#comment-164 My problem is the goodies that I freeze or can I tend not to want to use...to sort of savor them. We have a ton of pears in the freezer from fall that I haven't used yet. I'll need to get to it, huh?? I received my package of seeds in the mail yesterday. I can't wait to get some yummy produce from the garden! My problem is the goodies that I freeze or can I tend not to want to use…to sort of savor them. We have a ton of pears in the freezer from fall that I haven't used yet. I'll need to get to it, huh??
I received my package of seeds in the mail yesterday. I can't wait to get some yummy produce from the garden!

]]> By: pennypantry http://pennypantry.com/gardening/using-a-garden-to-cut-your-grocery-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-155 pennypantry Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:58:53 +0000 http://pennypantry.com/?p=2662#comment-155 Absolutely Holly! I very excited about the gardening and canning posts. The problem with my green beans last year is that I didn't count how many seeds or plants we had. We planted them in a different style than we normally do as an experiment. The experiment went great and I hope to actually show pictures this year of how we did it. (and I hope to count the plants and calculate how many bushels we are getting off them!) We used the Ruth Stout mulching method of gardening and loved it for a lot of reasons. I'll devote a whole post to that and have that up soon. She never actually planted seeds...she sorta just sprinkled the seeds on the ground. We had a green bean patch actually. I actually had to pull a few plants up so we could get to some of the other ones. But yes... i want to cover how much to plant based on estimating what each plant can produce...and then out of that, how many canning jars you can get out of how much produce. I was getting about 15 jars out of one bushel of green beans ( which is around 30 lbs). No, I don't have the big canner. I have the one that is a 7 qt. one...but the great thing is that I live in an area where all my friends have the same canner...so when one of us is going to can, we borrow one another's canner and get two of them going at the same time. It goes a lot faster that way! Check back at this post...I'm going to add a link to a blog post i wrote on Vaughnshire about the green beans last year...it has a picture in it of what it looked like. Absolutely Holly! I very excited about the gardening and canning posts. The problem with my green beans last year is that I didn't count how many seeds or plants we had. We planted them in a different style than we normally do as an experiment. The experiment went great and I hope to actually show pictures this year of how we did it. (and I hope to count the plants and calculate how many bushels we are getting off them!)

We used the Ruth Stout mulching method of gardening and loved it for a lot of reasons. I'll devote a whole post to that and have that up soon. She never actually planted seeds…she sorta just sprinkled the seeds on the ground.

We had a green bean patch actually. I actually had to pull a few plants up so we could get to some of the other ones.

But yes… i want to cover how much to plant based on estimating what each plant can produce…and then out of that, how many canning jars you can get out of how much produce.

I was getting about 15 jars out of one bushel of green beans ( which is around 30 lbs). No, I don't have the big canner. I have the one that is a 7 qt. one…but the great thing is that I live in an area where all my friends have the same canner…so when one of us is going to can, we borrow one another's canner and get two of them going at the same time. It goes a lot faster that way!

Check back at this post…I'm going to add a link to a blog post i wrote on Vaughnshire about the green beans last year…it has a picture in it of what it looked like.

]]> By: Holly http://pennypantry.com/gardening/using-a-garden-to-cut-your-grocery-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Holly Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:21:32 +0000 http://pennypantry.com/?p=2662#comment-153 Beth, are you thinking about posting about how much you need to plant in order to get the amount you need to can/freeze for the year? I know we all have different sized families, but I would be curious since I have a family of 7 to know how many green bean plants you thought were in each row? And so on and so forth. For instance, I blanched/cut off the cob/froze 15 dozen ears of corn and they lasted me less than 3 months. So I figure 50-60 dozen at least for this year. I'm new to canning and freezing so it's so hard to know!? Also, I was just online and noted that you can get pressure canners that will do 14 qt. jars at once (or more!). Do you have one that does 7 qt. jars or did you go for a bigger one? Thanks! Beth, are you thinking about posting about how much you need to plant in order to get the amount you need to can/freeze for the year? I know we all have different sized families, but I would be curious since I have a family of 7 to know how many green bean plants you thought were in each row? And so on and so forth. For instance, I blanched/cut off the cob/froze 15 dozen ears of corn and they lasted me less than 3 months. So I figure 50-60 dozen at least for this year. I'm new to canning and freezing so it's so hard to know!? Also, I was just online and noted that you can get pressure canners that will do 14 qt. jars at once (or more!). Do you have one that does 7 qt. jars or did you go for a bigger one? Thanks!

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