Vegetable Gardening
I love gardening, and with my green thumb I love to help my readers learn how to stretch their budget. When you visit Emily's Frugal Tips you can find topics on container gardening on a budget, learning how to layout a vegetable garden, how gardening on less ground can actually increase yield while increasing your landscaping budget ideas. Just call me your free garden planner because I offer everything planning a garden beginners need, plus lots more. Many homeowners want to add new landscaping to their property but it can get expensive. Here, I offer tons of free gardening ideas, plus I teach how budget landscaping ideas can really help stretch your dollar.
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Edible Container Garden Ideas For Small Spaces
Here are some edible container garden ideas if you live in an apartment or town home. Absence of space is no longer an excuse since many modern vegetable varieties are perfect for growing in containers, window boxes, rooftop or patio. You can always consult container vegetable gardening books for more ideas. I use The Vegetable Container Bible for my edible container garden ideas, and its not failed me yet. Growing Salad Vegetables – My Favorite! In limited space you can grow salad vegetables and herbs in almost any sunlit spot and enjoy fresh ingredients all year round. You do NOT have to stop once winter hits! For lots more gardening…
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The Best Way To Grow Asparagus
Best Way to Grow Asparagus There are a few ways you can grow Asparagus but I find that one way is better than the others. I will explain my reasoning of course, but first a few important facts about growing Asparagus for the modern day gardener. Growing asparagus seed in your garden is a great way to frugally add more green veggies in your diet. It often sells for over $3 a bundle in the store when its on sale, but if you grow it yourself you will save money while adding a healthy vegetable that has many positive benefits. Seed is much cheaper than purchasing Asparagus roots/crowns, and you…
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Salad Bar Garden Plans
So you want to start a salad bar garden? Me to! There I was in Fred Meyer trying to decide between butter lettuce, Romain, or red leaf lettuce, knowing full well that the only one I would probably actually eat was the butter lettuce. I just don’t like the taste of store bought, and have you seen the size of them? They are TINY, and expensive. Then it hit me. Why haven’t I planted a salad bar garden on my back patio? Living in a small apartment does have its limits, but I have a patio. And I began my plan of action as soon as I got home. All…
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The Best Plants to Welcome Spring
Spring is a season of fresh air, sun, and new growth. Trees begin to sprout leaves and the world sheds its winter gloom and slowly blossoms into color. To help add life to your home, here are some of the best plants to welcome spring! Hanging baskets can dress up a front porch nicely. Petunias are great for baskets, and come in varying hues of purple, pink, white, and striped depending on your garden’s color scheme. Pansies also work rather well for hanging baskets, and come in even more color varieties. Both plants grow in full and healthy, creating an inviting front porch. Try planting petunias and pansies with spike…
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Great Evergreens to Plant in the Summer
When looking for things to plant this summer, it is first important to consider what you are trying to achieve with your plantings. During the summer months certainly many people plant flowers and shrubbery that include both perennials and annuals. But one of the perfect things to look to planting in the summer is evergreen plants that will provide color all year long. Since summer can seem short lived many people look to fill their yard with more cheerful options that will sustain color and beauty during the winter months as well. There are quite a few plants to choose from that will accomplish this quite well. Overall late summer…
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Growing Different Types of Peas in Your Garden
Growing peas in your home vegetable garden is easy and a great way to add fresh vegetables to your daily diet. Most gardeners become familiar with a single type of pea and don’t try anything different because they are unsure or unaware of how to grow them. There are several different types of peas that you can grow in your garden, some of which you might never have eaten yourself. Expand the variety in your garden and diet this year with these different types of peas. Edamame Edamame is a popular Asian pea that is growing in popularity in gardens and dishes every day. Also known as the…
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Tips for Growing Radishes
Radishes are a great vegetable to grow if you are looking for temperature and season specific crops to add to your garden. The rapid growth rate of radishes makes it possible to use them as a second crop where you have already grown and harvested other vegetables in the same garden space. They prefer cooler weather, so early spring and the end of the summer, well into fall, are a great time to sow their seeds. A single crop will provide you with a harvest big enough to pickle, and enjoy raw and cooked for months. Use these tips to grow and harvest a successful crop of radishes…
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Tips for Growing Beets
Beets are a great summer root vegetable that can be used in different ways, and used throughout the fall and winter months if stored or preserved properly. Growing beets gives you both root and leafy greens to add to your diet, and they are easy enough for children to lend a hand. With so many different types of beets available to the home gardener, you just need to decide on one type that you prefer and get growing. Use these tips for growing beets that you can use in salads, for food coloring, and enjoy the leafy greens well into winter. Choosing a Variety There are several different reasons for…
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Growing a Lemon Scented Garden
A highly fragrant garden doesn’t just happen by accident, but involves careful planning and plant selection by the gardener. Citrus scented plants add an uplifting element to any garden, even just a couple citrus scented plants can change the entire scent experience of a garden. Try adding all, or just a couple, of these lemon scented plants to your garden for the ultimate fragrance all summer long. Lemon Verbena Lemon Verbena is one of the most popular citrus herbs because it is easy to grow, commonly found in nurseries and is especially fragrant. As an herb it can be added to just about any garden bed, though it prefers poor,…
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Vegetable Garden 2014 Update
I’ve been hard at work the last couple weeks prepping the vegetable garden and getting the early veggies bedded. We’ve got purple cabbage, tomatoes, an eggplant, a couple bell peppers and a jalapeno. There’s a few squash planted but I have a few more to get in the beds this month. I still have lots of seed to lay down in rows that you can see in the photos. Lots more to be planted to include lettuce beds, corn, melons, carrots,radishes, turnips and kohlrabi. I hope you love these photos. I’m still learning to use my new Canon T2i DSLRso they may not all be in focus but I…