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Gardening

I got a little dirty yesterday.

July 7, 2011

Actually, a LOT dirty. And a lot smelly. But it was for a good and frugal cause. First, I used a pitchfork and wheelbarrow and put wood chips all around the swingset (I’m still working through the ginormous pile of wood chips we got when we had our dead tree removed). Incidentally, you should know [...]

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Green is springing up all around me

March 22, 2011

And I love it! After a winter full of brown, gray, and white tones, green is such a sight for sore eyes. Seriously.  Don’t sunlit green leaves just make you feel happy? (the deciduous trees are not yet green around here…this is just a large evergreen bush/tree in my backyard, and I am choosing to [...]

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Next year when I garden…

September 28, 2010

At this time of year, I tend to look around at my yard and ponder what I will do differently (and what I will do the same).  Tell me I’m not the only one! Next year, I will plant purple hyacinths around my mailbox because that works out fabulously every single year. I will not [...]

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Know what’s a super-frugal plant?

September 9, 2010

The hyacinth bean. I love these things. My brother started growing them years ago when he was the landscaper at church.  They now cascade over a long fence there and produce hundreds of bean pods every year, each filled with little purple seeds. This seed production is what makes these such a frugal plant…a single [...]

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Aldi + Goodwill = Hanging Baskets

July 13, 2010

I’ve told you before that I’m no master gardener. But, I do like to try my hand at growing food and beautifying the outside of our house with plants, and this year I decided I wanted to put up some hanging baskets. Weis carries hanging baskets, but the cheapest, smallest ones they carry are $12-$15. [...]

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Aldi: Not just for groceries!

April 20, 2010

You all know by now that I adore Aldi for their super-low grocery prices, but I haven’t really talked about any of the non-grocery items I’ve bought from them.  Normally, it’s a really bad idea to buy anything except groceries from a grocery store, as the prices are usually really inflated, but I’ve found some [...]

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