Pin ItThey’re coming. They can knock over a whole pepper plant in a single night. They can make Swiss cheese look complete next to the leaves of your green beans. They can put holes in your fruit that will just tick you off as you struggle to cut around them. Rene of Budget Saving Mom [...]
Entries Tagged as 'gardening'
Organic Gardening Series: Natural Pest Control
June 14th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Organic Gardening
Tags: gardening·natural bug spray·natural pest control·organic·pesticides·produce·slugs
How to Plant Tomatoes: 8 Things I Put in the Tomato Planting Hole
June 10th, 2010 · 26 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItI’m no master gardener, but I am a perfectionist and rather thorough when I decide to tackle a project. Three years ago, my new thing was vegetable gardening. As a result of all my reading, watching me plant a tomato is almost like watching me make a complicated recipe in my kitchen. The 8 [...]
Organic Gardening Series: Genetically Modified Seeds
June 10th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItNo-GMO! The latest in the organic gardening series by Rene of Budget Saving Mom: To save money, we plant our garden from seeds. However, today a seed is not necessarily the type of seed that our grandparents would have planted. Many seeds have been genetically modified, had genes inserted in order to produce plants [...]
Real Gardening vs. American Lawncare
June 9th, 2010 · 79 Comments · Uncategorized
Pin It Two weeks ago, I was watching my neighbor meticulously patch his lawn after spending a half hour edging the sidewalk. I thought, “If he spent that much time and care on a vegetable garden, he could feed his family all summer long.” Then last week on my son’s preschool field trip, the instructor [...]
Tags: gardening·Go Local! Challenge·Little House in the Big Woods·local·sustainability·traditional foods
Organic Gardening Series: How to and Benefits of Container Gardening
May 28th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin It Container gardening is the fourth method of gardening to discuss (See traditional gardening, raised bed gardening, and landscape gardening). This is another easy way to garden that can be similar to raised bed gardening. Container gardening is exactly what it sounds like; you use containers, like pots or window boxes, to grow your [...]
Organic Gardening Series: How to and Benefits of Landscape Gardening
May 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItLandscape gardening is using plants that blend in with your landscape, so that you don’t look like you have an actual garden, and it can be a great form of gardening for many people. For example, landscape gardening might be an important way to garden for those who live in neighborhoods with strict home [...]
Organic Gardening Series: How to and Benefits of Raised Bed Gardens
May 21st, 2010 · 13 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItThis is the second in a 4-part sequence about different kinds of gardening. If you missed the first, you can read about traditional gardens, and look forward to two more articles about landscape gardening and container gardens. Raised bed gardening is a very low maintenance form of gardening. This is the perfect type of [...]
