Frugal Gardening 101

How Does Your Garden Grow?

May 25, 2011

My garden isn’t doing so hot. Most everything is still living, but we don’t have very much produce at all. I have harvested 2 small tomatoes and a handful of peas and beans. And that’s it. I was thinking that I just needed to be patient, until I started to notice that my friends on [...]

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The Three Sisters Planting Method

May 18, 2011

*Have you snagged my FREE homeschooling ebook?! The “three sisters” planting method is an old Native American trick that makes use of the tall corn stalks as a pole for beans to climb. Then squash or another spreading vine is planted nearby to be used as ground cover to keep weeds out. I waited until [...]

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Garden Produce

May 10, 2011

This week I am finally seeing a little bit of produce in our raised bed garden. Lookie! Peas! Some of our cantalopes, potatoes, and beans are also flowering, so hopefully it won’t be long before we see them producing as well. Here is a picture of what our raised beds look like this week. Be [...]

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

May 4, 2011

Welcome to another edition of Frugal Gardening 101 with: Smockity Frocks Getting Freedom From Debt Amy’s Finer Things Since our life changing, upside down turning, sudden unemployment, we are hoping more than ever that our garden gives us plenty of fresh produce. This time a couple of weeks ago, we thought it would be [...]

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The Three Sister’s Gardening Method

April 26, 2011

Have you had the opportunity to work in your garden this week? I LOVE going out there to water, check growth, pick weeds, and dream of all the produce we will (hopefully) get. It amazes me to think of how God provides for us. And am I the only one who finds gardening SO relaxing? [...]

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Making Simple Trellises From Sticks

April 19, 2011

Welcome back to Frugal Gardening 101 – The Busy Mom’s Guide! This week, I would like to show you the “trellises” I made for my peas at ABSOLUTELY NO COST! I used sticks and twigs and put them in the soil where the peas would be able to climb them. (The seed packet says they [...]

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Garden Photos

April 12, 2011

Welcome to another edition of Frugal Gardening 101 – The Busy Mom’s Guide! Each Wednesday throughout the spring and summer I will be collaborating with Amy’s Finer Things and Getting Freedom to show you how even busy moms on a budget can garden! We had quite a rain storm a couple of nights ago, which [...]

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