Gardening

Preparing for Gardening Season

January 20, 2012

In the midst of cold weather, snow and dead grass, it’s hard to even begin thinking about the summer months.  Or maybe not, since most of us long for the days of warm weather and no schedules.  But, believe it or not, these winter months are the best time for you to start thinking about [...]

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Frugal Gardening 101: Whoa! Green Beans!

July 19, 2011

Even though my garden isn’t much to shake a stick at {yet}, I have a few friends that have more than enough produce, and are willing to share it with us not-so-fortunate gardeners.  Earlier this week, I picked green beans out of a friends garden until I couldn’t pick any more!   In addition to [...]

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Frugal Gardening 101

July 12, 2011

This past week disappeared with a flash!  I’ve been abundantly blessed by my wonderful mother in law again!  She blessed us with an entire “picking” of green beans, which ended up being 14 quarts worth!  When I haven’t been canning green beans, I’ve been catching up on the things I’ve neglected around here.  I’m finally [...]

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Frugal Gardening 101:: Unexpected Blessings

July 5, 2011

Due to many circumstances out of our control, we were unable to plant the extensive spring/summer garden that we had planned.  Thankfully, all is not lost and we plan to take full advantage of our summer/fall growing season. In the meantime, though, we are very thankful for family and friends who are blessing us with [...]

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Frugal Gardening:: How to Grow Cauliflower

June 29, 2011

This is our first year growing cauliflower.  We’ve grown broccoli, with success before, but never ventured to cauliflower until now.  Thankfully it was a fairly easy crop to grow, and it didn’t give me any fits.  However, as a newbie, we could have done some things differently. How to Grow Cauliflower Planting Plant cauliflower seedlings [...]

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Frugal Gardening 101:: Planning Our Summer Planting

June 21, 2011

As gardening season continues here in Southern Missouri, we are beginning prepare for our second planting. Thankfully we are blessed to be able to have 2 growing seasons–a Spring planting and a Summer planting {which takes place around the first of July}. We’re really banking on our Summer planting to yield the most of our [...]

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Frugal Gardening 101:: Garden Fresh Peas

June 14, 2011

Last year was our first year growing peas.  We were all sorts of excited…and then Blake came. All of our peas were ready when we were in the NICU with him, so we never got to enjoy the fruits of our labor.  This year, I was bound and determined to grow and harvest home grown [...]

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Frugal Gardening 101:: Busy Mom’s Guide {Produce!}

June 7, 2011

I was able to go out to my garden for the first time in about 2 weeks.  Who knew I would get so excited about weeding?!  Thankfully, my garden has done pretty well even though it’s been neglected! My Cabbage Plants are coming along nicely–even though they’re beginning to be surrounded by weeds. My Cauliflower [...]

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Frugal Gardening 101

May 31, 2011

I interrupt the regularly scheduled Frugal Gardening Post to tell you that I have no idea how my garden is progressing.  Over the weekend, my mother was put back into the hospital.  We’ve found out that the second tumor in her brain is growing very rapidly, and is very large. Tomorrow {Wednesday} she will undergo [...]

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Busy Mom’s Gardening

May 24, 2011

I cannot even begin to tell you how happy I am that today was the last day of school for us!  If the warm weather didn’t make life crazy enough, throw in sports, and the end of school.  It’s enough to make my head spin! All of that to say, I’ve barely had time to [...]

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