A Quick Garden Update and Cheap Garden Amendment Ideas

I popped a few more things in the garden. I’m not sure if the kids will eat them, but I put Kohlrabi seeds in the new raised bed anyway. They are fun for kids to watch as they grow. I also put in amaranth seeds and a few hills of snow peas. (I had a [...]

Cautious Canning Baby Steps, Quail Eggs and an Apple Peeler

I’ll start off by saying today was not very thrifty. We spent $117.70! And the hardware store looked so innocent and harmless, too. I needed canning supplies, though, because I never bought my own and am planning to do enough canning to make it worthwhile. First there were all the produce bacteria problems and then [...]

Not So Wordless Wednesday – Recycled Seed Starting Greenhouse

You can buy a seed starting greenhouse for $4 or more to start seeds in. Or you can buy rolls in a plastic container, rinse out the container when you are done with it and start seeds in it for free. I put seed starting mix in this container, moistened it, planted the seeds and [...]

Quail Eggs and Garden Update

Oh, dear. I meant to transfer my journal notes to my blog, but I kept forgetting. I’m not going to go back a month to bore you with updates that seemed tremendously exciting at the time, but I will give you a quick recap. In the ground right now, I have: Radishes Peas Bush beans [...]

A Review of a Few Sustainable Living Books I Ordered

I think I mentioned ordering some of these a few weeks back. Others I got because when I read those books, they recommended others and then the recommended books had books they recommended… I get as many as I can from the library, but that still leaves pretty many to buy. Thank goodness for Swagbucks! [...]

Make a Box From a Recycled Picket Fence

I needed a raised bed with some depth to it to plant my parsnip seeds in. (The soil is just too stony around here to make decent root veggies if you don’t use raised beds.) I looked at a few options, but then remembered that my brother just made me the cutest little box out [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Tank at the VFW

I meant to get this up last week for Armed Forces Day, but didn’t get to it, so I’m posting it for this week’s Wordless Wednesday. Thanks to all the men and women who fight for our country.

Gardening With Kids

I am stuck inside with this rainy weather, so I am writing about the garden instead of actually doing anything garden related. (Well, I am starting sweet peppers a bit late. I’m going to grow them in containers and overwinter them indoors since they may not have quite enough time to mature.) I wanted to [...]

The Scottish Games at Fair Hill

The Scottish Games at Fair Hill Fairgrounds are not the least bit frugal. Admission is $15 for anyone 12 and over and parking is $2. But if you are looking for some good fun, great food, amazing feats of strength and some really good Welsh Cookies, (Next time, I am so hitting the inFamous Welsh [...]

Shenandoah National Park Vacation – Wordless Wednesday

I was putting together a lens about the beautiful Shenandoah National Park and Luray, Virginia and I thought I’d share a photo with you for Wordless Wednesday. I tell you, I don’t know how people that live in the Appalachian Mountains get a lick of work done with all of that beauty hanging about. I’d [...]

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