Monthly Archives: February 2011
Preserving the Harvest
I save a bundle on my food budget by preserving garden or low-cost purchased produce. Proper preservation prevents vitamin loss and spoilage. The three basic types of food preservation are drying, canning, and freezing. Some foods (like apples, onions, potatoes, and winter squash) can also be preserved for a few months in their fresh state in [...]
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Saving Seeds
Quality seeds can get expensive, but if you purchase heirloom seeds you can save seeds from year to year and never buy that variety again. Imagine how much money this saves for just a little effort! If you’d like to save seeds from your garden vegetables, look for seed varieties that say open-pollinated or heirloom. Avoid seeds labeled as [...]
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Planning a Garden
As with anything, planning a garden is key to the success of the project. If you know me well, you know this is backwards thinking for me. I’m a doer, not a planner. Details tend to slow me down. But if planning helps me get the most from my grocery dollars then it will help me save gardening money too. [...]
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More Seed Starting Ideas
I had convinced myself it was okay not to garden this year with a wee babe due on planting day, but after I found the snap together square foot garden boxes at Sam’s Club, I’m thinking again. I had also told myself not to bother trying to start seeds indoors again, since all previous attempts [...]
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Square Foot Gardening
Crazy busy is all I can say! I’m on my way to my midwife appointment which are everyother week right now and chiropractor in between. Pretty soon I’ll be over there every week and it’s feeling like a little much. But I have many friends who are in much worse shape than I am and [...]
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Gardens for Small Spaces
If you have a porch, balcony, deck or patio, it’s possible to have a vegetable garden–even if you don’t have any yard space. Our yard is so small that I grow my vegetables in flower beds. I don’t even want to take up enough space for a square foot garden, because I want to leave [...]
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It’s time to start seeds indoors
As you can imagine, a great way to save on food costs is to keep a small garden. The Grocery Shrink Ebook has charts in it to tell you how much of each type of plant to grow to be completely self sufficient for the year. But even just a salad garden will help. If [...]
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15 Minute Meals
Note: This post is full of links to more information. Try right clicking on the link and selecting “open in new tab” so you can come back to the original article easily when you are ready. Everyone has days that are packed so full you don’t have time to cook a decent meal. The normal [...]
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February Receipts