Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to commit to increasing your family’s vegetable intake this summer (or right now!). Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps This week’s Eat Well, Spend Less focus is on making the most of where you live, so tomorrow I’ll get in depth about how we corral the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'gardening'
Monday Mission: Where are Your Summer Veggies Coming From?
April 18th, 2011 · 25 Comments · Monday Missions
Organic Gardening Series: The End – Final Thoughts from Rene
August 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Organic Gardening
The last of the organic gardening series by Rene of Budget Saving Mom: How To Be Self Sufficient When You Garden: We try to be pretty self sufficient, and grow most of the fruits and vegetables that we use throughout the year. We also raise our chickens, guineas and ducks which provide meat and eggs [...]
Organic Gardening Series: How to Plant Just About Everything (for Next Year)
August 19th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Organic Gardening
The latest in the organic gardening series by Rene of Budget Saving Mom (part one of “the end”): Now that we have covered the basics of organic gardening and pest control, I thought it might be helpful to provide a how-to guide for different varieties of produce that you might want to plant. Get ready [...]
Organic Gardening Series: An All Natural Spray to Battle Bugs and Disease
July 30th, 2010 · 17 Comments · Organic Gardening
If you buy a hose-end sprayer, you will feel like a real gardener, I guarantee it. It may not guarantee good vegetables, but doggone you look cool spraying your gardens. (I’ve decided this week that I’m not growing peppers ever again – it’s cheaper for me to buy the peppers than the plant that only [...]
Tags: blight·gardening·natural pest control·organic·pesticides
Organic Gardening Series: Canning Basics for Preserving Summer Produce
July 8th, 2010 · 35 Comments · Organic Gardening
If you got your garden started off right, you may be harvesting lots of produce about this time. (If you live in the north country, like me, you’re still waiting on most things.) No garden yet? Sometimes it’s still less expensive to purchase a large quantity of produce from a local farmer, especially if it’s [...]
Tags: canning·gardening·organic·preserving vegetables·produce
Organic Gardening Series: How to Get Rid of Tomato Blight
July 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Organic Gardening
It’s a nasty disease that got all the organic tomato grower in our area last summer. It gets every last plant. A few readers were worried about blight on their tomato plants when Rene discussed natural garden pest control. Since we haven’t discussed diseases in the garden yet, I’m interrupting Rene’s schedule and putting off [...]
Organic Gardening Series: Natural Weed Control
June 25th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Organic Gardening
There are many ways to naturally control weeds in a garden. If you have a raised bed garden, you really should have very few weeds, and if you do have any, you should be able to easily pull them up by hand. However, if you have a large garden, you are going to need efficient [...]
