I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.
This is the first year I have planted onions. I think they are looking pretty good so far. Garlic Scapes. I think I read somewhere that after they loop around twice you should cut them off so more energy goes into the garlic head. Anyone know for sure? Trying to protect the pumpkin plants from Read More >>
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The handsome husband came home with 2 cases of rhubarb last night. A guy at work lives next to a farm and apparently 15 acres of the stuff went unpicked this year because they didn’t have enough buyers/would lose money picking it. So they were giving it away. Free works for me! I canned 26 Read More >>
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Forgive me Father for I have sinned. It’s been 45 days since my last confession… I’ve squished 82 slugs, killed 2 tomato plants and broke a promise to myself not to go back to the grocery store for anything but 5 lemons and milk for the rest of the month. Temptation is an ugly thing. Read More >>
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I caught up with my super nice (wish I got to know her better) neighbor who is moving out of state in two weeks. Her husband’s job is taking them to Idaho. Unfortunately their house has not sold yet. She had mentioned how crazy things were with prom, graduation, out of town guests, packing yada Read More >>
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I’m beginning to think that if I had to grow all our food we would starve to death. Today’s harvest? 2 oz radish, 2 oz lettuce and 1 oz broccoli. Maybe growing 2,000lbs of garden produce is going to be harder that I thought.
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