Category Archives: Gardening
Saturday Odds ‘n’ Ends: Mother’s Day Edition
An early happy Mother’s Day greeting to all the moms out there! We’re expecting beautiful weather here in Portland, so my day will be spent at the local nursery getting the rest of the plants for our garden and then … Continue reading
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Thursday Odds ‘n’ Ends
Stuff too small for its own post: No interest: Do you see the balance on Credit Card #2? That will be paid off next week (!!!) and after it’s gone we will not be paying any more interest on a … Continue reading
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From the Garden: Ratatouille
Ratatouille is not just a cute Disney movie about a cooking rat, but a great way to use an (over)abundance of squash, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers from your garden. A traditional vegetable stew from the Provençal region of France, ratatouille … Continue reading
Gardens Gone Wild
I took these pictures of our garden last week, when things looked pretty tame. The squash plants have doubled in size, and we are harvesting two to three a day. The seed packet we got this year was called “Abundant … Continue reading
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Volunteer of the Year Award
. . . goes to our pumpkin crop this year! We didn’t plant any pumpkins, but they came up all over the garden as a result of our throwing the seeds from last year’s crop in the compost. We actually … Continue reading
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One Yard’s Debris Is Another Yard’s Treasure
Although my motto has always been “never pay full price for anything,” in the past I have missed out on some terrific offers just because they weren’t what I was looking for or thinking about at the time, especially when … Continue reading
Filed under Gardening, Living a Frugal Life
That’s One Fine Tomato You’ve Got There
If you look over at the category cloud on my home page, you can see by the size of type that there haven’t been a whole lot of posts on gardening nor about books I like. It’s not that I … Continue reading
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Dandelions-B-Gone!
This past weekend the Losing It family finally got around to cleaning up the back yard for the summer. Mr. Losing and I told the girls that it would only take an hour or so if all of us worked … Continue reading
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An Energizer Bunny In Our Garden
Somewhere in the last week or two, our spinach patch celebrated its first anniversary. This little piece of our garden just won’t quit, and for almost a year has provided us with at least one bag of fresh spinach per … Continue reading
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