Naturally Frugal Living
I just downloaded Raised Bed Gardening: How To Grow Vegetables and Food With Easy, Simple Raised Bed Garden Designs for FREE on to my Kindle. If you have read my blog for a while, you know that I am a raised bed gardener. I have 11 raised garden beds and that number is sure to grow [...]
The tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant are definitely liking our hot August days. The tomatoes continue to roll in and show no sign of letting up. I have been using our surplus cherry tomatoes in Broiled Cherry Tomatoes. I am waiting for these beauties to ripen to start canning: We are harvesting peppers daily: What I [...]
We had more snow last night. More snow is expected tonight and tomorrow. My poor children are complaining of living in Narnia and hoping for Aslan’s return. My garden is barely hanging on. I couldn’t bring myself to post last week because there just didn’t seem to be anything, well at least anything positive, going [...]
I wish I had more to report. However, the tomatoes, peppers, and squash are still living in my temporary green house. I moved them from the garage to the greenhouse, so that I could roll up the door and hopefully the bees would discover their flowers. I am hoping to plant them next weekend after [...]
We have not had any more losses, but we haven’t had much growth in the vegetable garden either. Since we have had two different snow storms blow through in the last week, I am content with survival! The spinach is roughly the same size it was last week, but it is being nibbled on. Time [...]
Last year, I opened my garden in March, even though our last freeze is usually in June. I was able to carefully plan ahead and cover the plants before a snow or freezing temperatures hit our area. The plants thrived and I was picking tomatoes in May before most of my neighbors had even planted [...]
This year’s garden was one of victories. I triumphed over surprise snow storms, extreme heat, and no precipitation. I lost some battles, but finally won the war against the rabbits. And as far as the weeds go, I made a rock path and called it peace: I shared the story of my ravaged rhubarb and [...]
The squash has left the safety of the raised garden beds. The rabbits have not touched it, but since I am overwhelmed with summer squash right now, I guess I wouldn’t mind sharing. I am putting together a list of recipes that use squash. If you have one that you like, please leave a link [...]
This morning instead of blogging about my garden I went to Walmart and bought 1 gallon forsythia plants for $3.00 each. Forsythia are one of the few flowering bushes that meet the stringent requirements necessary to be added to my backyard. To thrive in the high desert a plant must be able to survive -20 [...]
Last week I prepared yogurt cups to start my next crop of radishes. Rew found the cups and had lots of fun playing with the dirt. I told a friend about the mess he made and said I needed to prepare the cups again and she said, “It is 95 degrees outside, you do realize [...]
