I know, isnt it great!! My rue plantings are all from one plant I bought at Hannafords the first year we were here.Originally Posted by pinkytoe
I know, isnt it great!! My rue plantings are all from one plant I bought at Hannafords the first year we were here.
My summer project finally ends tomorrow: we will close on my mother-in-law's house and that will save us what we've been paying for taxes/insurance/utilities, as well as the worries about everything that could go wrong with the house when it was not regularly occupied. Yay!!!
re: plants!!! I don't often save seed, but I split perennials and move them around my yard, and share plants with friends and neighbors. Gardening is a fun frugal hobby. I've been in this house for 20 years now and the yard is quite transformed from the grass-and-a-few-trees that it was when we moved in. I am so accustomed to seeing our yard that I forget what a typical back yard looks like. Last year we were working on our fence and I glimpsed a couple of adjacent yards... and was reminded that our yard is really quite special. Lots of labor, but the total cost for the transformation was really quite minimal.
I don’t do much with seeds, but I divide plants a lot. I seem to spend my life dividing iris and lilies, and looking for a home for those divisions.
. And then there are daylilies which I’ve had for 20 years that lived at five different places. I divide half the plant and move it to a new address leaving the old one in place.
Could put this here or in Adventures in Grocery shopping, but decided it was more "frugal". Grocery store had packs of pretty big chicken legs on sale for .69/pound. Hasn't been that low of a price in a long time. Have my third (and last) pack in the cp to cook, get picked and portioned for the freezer. Between this and the ground turkey a little while back, I'm starting to feel stocked up for the winter! LOL.
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That is super low, good for you.
My husband just picked up a bag of apples from an antique abandoned tree, so we will peel them and put them in the freezer for pie and plant the seeds in buckets for our antique apple orchard.
We scored some great mulch yesterday, 2 dollars down from 25 for a chopped alfalfa animal feed product that started to mold. We will go back today and buy out the rest of the bags. It has molasses in it, and DH says that will encourage the worms. It's called Chaffhay, if anyone sees it anywhere on sale.
That’s great. I need to go back to Aldi. I’ve been doing Walmart for a bit.
One of the August frugals here is alley fruit. Apples, peaches and last month, apricots - just falling into the alley from back yard trees.
Oooooooo free apricots!
we have apricot trees, but they seldom give us us much of a crop. And then back when we lived in the city, in a year where we had a good crop, the squirrels took 90% of them. DH makes good apricot jam
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I'm jealous of all the fruit trees you all seem to have nearby AND FREE! Enjoy.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
My city library is subscribing to an online version of our city newspaper. This is a big deal for me because I’ve been trying off and on for six months to find a way to get bits of news from the city without a full-blown subscription to the newspaper. A non-discounted online subscription is $29 a month.
The software that delivers it is just shitty. It sucks so much. The St. Louis Dispatch is shooting itself in the foot by not improving it software applications.
Six months ago I was very interested in the comments section of the newspaper, comments that followed articles. I wanted to both read and comment. But the software wouldn’t let me add using IPads. And then, when I jumped through multiple hoops to add a comment, it was censored. Sure, I get it’s their newspaper, their rules, but it’s also my money my decision not to support them.
Our city’s alternative newspaper folded and so I was really casting about to find consistent reporting on a couple of issues around here.
And— the libraries version has an indexing feature. That’s perfect for me, a reader reader who is interested in only a few of regional issues in addition to skimming the front pages.
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