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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]