Ramblings of a Christian Mom
God is good! I really didn't expect much else from the garden this year to be honest, we'd kind of given up on it and neglected it. We did get a lot of strawberries in the spring, and we got some peas, beets, grape tomatoes, a couple of heads of broccoli, and our onions..but with such a dry summer this year everything else was doing pretty [More...]
Have you entered the great Tupperware Giveaway that's open right now? It will only take you a minute, and you could win a Tupperware pitcher and tumblers! I hope everyone had a great weekend! Ours was pretty good. The heat is getting to us though! It's been a super dry summer so far, with only about 20mm of rain since the beginning of June. Our [More...]
Though a garden does involve some initial start-up costs, it can be a great way to save money on produce. You don't even need to know how to can; many veggies freeze well! This is our 3rd year with a garden, and we've learned a lot over the last couple of summers. This looks like it will be our best harvest yet. (We lost a lot of veggies to birds [More...]
My husband has been grabbing various gardening books from thrift stores and one of them I think has become one of my favourites, just because of some of the humour they put into it. The book, entitled Fruits and Vegetables: Growing Your Own, by Rand McNally, has a section in the book devoted to common garden pests. Here are two of the [More...]
Last year our garden didn't do very well. We still got lots of zucchini, peppers, cucumber, and tomatoes, but a lot of the seeds and seedlings were eaten by birds and squirrels. Later, agroundhog ate a bunch of my cucumbers. This year is a very experimental year for us. I think it will take a few posts to describe all that we're doing! (which is [More...]
source Did you know you can make your own sun dried tomatoes? I've wanted to try using them in several recipes but when I looked at the store, sun dried tomatoes are so expensive! I couldn't justify the cost for just a few pieces of tomatoes. You can find the instructions for making your own sun dried tomatoes here, or you can do what I did and [More...]
I've finally been able to start harvesting some veggies! A few days ago I harvested a bunch of broccoli, and the kids have been eating peas off the vine like crazy. There are only 4 pea plants because I hadn't planned on planting them this year, and my son found the seeds and planted them when I wasn't looking.My zucchini is doing well..I've [More...]
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