Frugal Gardening 101

We are having moderate success with growing our melons and okra, although we haven’t harvested any ripe melons yet, and the majority of our okra, while it is large and healthy looking, hasn’t produced any flowers. We love fried okra, but so far we haven’t harvested enough for our family, so we have given it [...]

We are seeing signs… that we will be enjoying at least 30 of these juicy babies sometime soon. Praise God! We are finally seeing some produce in our “back 40 garden“! By the way, when I posted the pictures comparing garden produce last week, I didn’t mean to give the impression that those were pictures [...]

If you have been following along with the Frugal Gardening 101 series, you probably know that my raised bed garden is not producing as we had hoped. In fact, we have only gotten a handful of vegetables so far. Conversely, our “back 40 garden” is growing like gang busters! It was started almost 2 months after [...]

We have been talking this week about the lessons we have learned from our gardening mistakes this year. This is why: That is our harvest this week, besides a handful of beans the kids ate up while standing in the garden. (Okay, I ate a few too!) To give you some perspective, that small purple [...]