by StaciMayo | Jul 30, 2009 | From My Garden, Gardening Tips
I ran across a link to the USDA Food Budget today for June of 2009. I found it very interesting. Four monthly food plans range from Thrifty to Liberal to choose from. For my own family of 7, which includes my husband and I, 12 year old son, 9 year old son, 7 year...
by StaciMayo | Apr 1, 2009 | Gardening Tips
My dad, aka Farmer Darrell, sent me this link to a neat article from CNN. Check it out and tell us what you think! ‘Recession gardens’ trim grocery bills, teach lessons – CNN.com* cheap houses for rent
by StaciMayo | Dec 28, 2008 | Gardening Tips
Raised beds or sunken beds. Nothing like a little controversy to get your minds spurned on to think of why you do some things the way you do. I’ve heard of others who say that with our climate it is better to dig out your plot and make it sunken. How about...
by StaciMayo | Dec 27, 2008 | Gardening Tips
If any of you are wanting to start peppers from seeds, now is the time to do it. I started a few seeds a couple of weeks ago, but I will plant a whole seed tray of 72 pepper seeds today. Last year I waited too long to start my peppers, which was in the mid to later...
by StaciMayo | Nov 20, 2008 | From My Garden, Gardening Tips
As I was thinning my baby beets… I collected the leaves that I snipped and made myself my first salad. And I don’t even have to fight off ten little hands because nobody wants it but me. 🙂 Although, if I put ranch dressing on it for them they would...
by StaciMayo | May 29, 2008 | Gardening Tips
We will put the shade up tomorrow on the tomatoes, but in the meantime we have been preparing our shade screen material with these grommets for the corners. We’ll use locking ties to attach them to the poles that we have already set up… Today the...
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