Comments on: Will garden for food

By: bluntmoney

bluntmoney — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:35:40 +0000

Jac, so far I’m just hoping for the best. Everything I planted says “full sun” so I’m hoping they will be ok. I’ve heard of people putting up sunshades though.

By: Couponer

Couponer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:16:12 +0000

I wouldn’t waste money on the grocery game or any other coupon “help” that has you pay for lists and tells you where to shop. All that information can be found online for free so why pay for it? http://www.pinchingyourpennies.com/ has all the information and has forums with specific deals for different states and communites. They also have information on where to find the cheapest perishables each week and other deals on the net. While you still spend time couponing, you save money not having to pay for the information. There is also information on the lowest deals without couponing, just by using sales and going to the stores with the best deals.

Good luck!

By: Jac

Jac — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:00:46 +0000

How are you dealing with the sun so far? I’m in AZ as well. I had a little patio garden started and my tomato, strawberry & zuc plants were doing really well… until they got sunscorched one particularly bright day (even though they got shade for a lot of the day), and then there was no saving them. Such a bummer.

By: SavingDiva

SavingDiva — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:45:49 +0000

I’ve been trying to keep my food expenditures the same by cutting down how much I go out to eat. Unfortunately, I’m noticing a HUGE change i my grocery bills, so I think I might have to take out a lot of prepared foods….and start cooking more. UGH!

I’m lucky that I really like vegetables. However, I don’t like to cook…and I’m not s a huge fan of raw vegetables.

By: Dividend machine

Dividend machine — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:53:13 +0000

LOL…Eat your vegetables.

By: bluntmoney

bluntmoney — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:34:37 +0000

I’m just hoping for the best on the corn as well. (And I’ll consider ANY corn that’s edible a success, even if it’s just one ear.) I did plant them in a square to (hopefully) help facilitate pollination.

By: Bellen

Bellen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:26:00 +0000

I know what you mean about veggies (and I’m a Dietician by training!). I still cannot eat peas except straight from the vine. I usually harvested my veggies as babies – 3 inch zucchinis, 4 inch carrots. BTW did you know you can eat carrot tops? I add them to salads.

Try stir frying veggies, you usually can incorporate more that way and they taste better. Even radishes can be stir fried.

I now grow, in Earth boxes and large flower pots, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, carrots, onions, garlic chives, sugar snap peas, swiss chard, a few carrots, parsley, lemon balm, mexican tarragon and romaine. I’d love to have an ‘in the ground’ garden but my 55+ community does not allow that. Besides, it’s Florida and we have sand and fire ants.

Corn normally only has 2 ears per stalk – you really have to grow a lot.