Category Archives: gardening

Garden Gleanings

frugal, gardening
My first garden harvest for this season – Bright Lights Swiss Chard. We steamed the Swiss Chard and had it with butter and salt. Look at the beautiful stems! Red, yellow, pink and white plants came up; the only color that didn't germinate was orange. Beautiful, delicious, and nutritious! Looseleaf lettuce and radishes, and a few leaves of Swiss Chard. If you look closely you can see I also harvested some purslane. The above harvest cleaned and made into a… Read the rest

Weed Soup

Carnivals, frugal, gardening
If you are visiting from the Make It From Scratch carnival, welcome to Out of Debt Again! Thank you 11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven for the fantastic effort of hosting this event, (I LOVE that you included photos!) and including my post! A couple of weeks ago I learned that the weeds coming up in my garden were actually edible! How much more frugal can you get than to use free greens growing in your yard or garden, or maybe on… Read the rest

Hate Weeds? Don’t Kill Them, Eat Them!

Carnivals, frugal, gardening
If you are visiting from the Festival of Frugality, welcome to Out of Debt Again! Thank you Mighty Bargain Hunter for the fantastic effort of hosting this event, and including my post! Don't forget to check out my recipe for soup using purslane. I've called it Weed Soup. My garden is growing like gangbusters. Doesn't it look pretty? There's just one little problem. I knew my seeds were two years old, but I hoped they would still germinate. A few… Read the rest

Visitors in the Garden

frugal, gardening
When I got home from work today I went out to check on the garden. One of our cats was in the garden, hunting what looked to be a Curve-Billed Thrasher. Between Mr. A and I, we were able to catch him and set him free. This means there is a way into the garden for both birds, and cats. Drat! Thankfully the dogs had not discovered the bird or they would have been trying to find a way in… Read the rest