Plant Something – Frugal Challenge
Is it really Monday again? Seems like this past week has been flying by. We have some really nice spring weather down here in the south. I’ve been enjoying the day outside, which is what inspired this week’s frugal challenge. Plant something that you can harvest and eat or use for your family later on. This could be anything from something big like an apple tree to something small like a few herbs that can grow on your kitchen counter.
I’m planning on getting some tomatoes and strawberries planted in barrels that week and also pick up a few more herbs to grow on my sun porch.
How about you? Is there something you are already growing, or something you’re planning on getting in the soil in the next few weeks?
Tags: growing produce
March 9th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
My chive plants are going crazy with the warm spell we’ve been having. It’s 80 degrees here today, but we could get wintry weather by this weekend, so we’re holding off on planting our garden until the weather makes up it’s mind. We have plenty of fertilizer on hand as we raise meat rabbits. I just hope the garden does as well as last year. We usually go for tomatoes, peppers, squash, and assorted herbs. Nothing beats a tomato fresh from the garden!
March 9th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
My plan is to grow tomatoes, tomatillos and pablano peppers. I love to make fresh tomatillo salsa and I’m hoping to can some when these plants produce. WOOHOO!
March 9th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
It’s still too cold here in Idaho to plant. But I plan on getting things in the ground as soon as the frost and snow have past (hopefully the second or so week of April). I plan on growing herbs in pots on my front porch that faces west. Plus a blackberry bush to grow up a trellis and a rhubarb plant on the sideyard so the dogs won’t eat it. In my backyard garden, which is very narrow and a little too shady, I plan on growing zuccini, yellow squash, bell pepper and a couple different kinds of tomatoes. Hopefully, I can make it work on what little full sun it gets a day. I used to grow pumpkins there, but they take up too much room. Anyway, good gardening to all!
March 9th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I started my tomato plants (3 kinds), zuchini, and egg plant in my mini greenhouse today just befoe I got on the computer. At the end of this month I will set them outside to harden up a bit then by the middle of April they will be ready to set out.
At that time it will be okay to set out cabbages, carrots, lettuce, onions, and peas. Watermelon, cantelope and beans can wait til May 1st. I live in the inner city in a low-income housing complex. I started enough seed to give some plants to my neighbors.
I will be growing cherry type tomatoes on a trellis in front of my porch to help block out the evening sun and help keep my living room cooler. There is no air conditioning in our units. I will be growing upside down tomato plants in buckets
suspended from a tall sheperds crook.
The rest of my plantings will be in a 24″ bed next to the building in the front and
rear of my unit. That is where we are allowed to plant flowers near our units.
After my plants flower, I will be able to eat what ever else grows!
I was accustomed to planting a garden, every year when I had my own home and
since my house is gone now, I don’t intend to give up my gardening, too. I am
alone now, but I enjoy growing veggies. My neighbors will just have to help me eat them!
waste not, want not!
meemaw
March 10th, 2009 at 9:10 am
I have tomatoes, peppers, onions, broccoli, garlic, celery, rosemary, basil, thyme, lavender,oregano, parsley & sage started.
Its was over 80 degrees here yesterday, I was outside almost all day, absolutely lovely day?
March 10th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I live on the East Coast of Canada – just above Maine, so our growing season is short, here. Usually, you can’t put anything in the ground until after the 24th of May weekend (a public holiday here). So, I’ve taken a small fish tank (got second hand for $5), put some soil in it and I’m growing parsley! The lamp in the lid is giving some more energy to the plants – I tried just growing in my living room, but the plants withered and died.
So far, with the new set-up, it’s working! 
I’m trying to convince my mother-in-law that it wouldn’t be that hard to water a garden in her back yard, if we came to set it up and did maintenance every weekend! lol We’ll see – she does love a garden! 
March 14th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
In Oregon, spring is here, but that just means cold and almost constant rain. I have friend new to canning and gardening and will have her over last weekend in March to have a seed starting day. We will be starting roma tomatoes, basil, lemon and reg. cukes, zucchini, watermelon, rosemary, bell peppers, and jalapenos. Mid May or so I will plant directly in ground some pole beans, corn, and pumpkins. We have rocky ground so root veggies don’t do well and we have lots of pine/fir trees so they really ruin a lot of ground, including our lawn, arrgh. The strawberries I started 2 years ago (30 plants) are just enough to satisfy our squirrels, so they might just end up getting dug up, of course, we could just start enjoying squirrel meat too! I collect cookbooks and have several old ones with more adventurous types of game recipes that could come in handy!
March 16th, 2009 at 6:33 am
This year I am planting my very first garden, ever!!! I’m excited about having my own fruits and veggies, but nervous as well. I LOVE plants, but they don’t like me very much :p. It seems everything I plant ends up mysteriously dying, but I have a really great friend who cultivates his own mini farm – he will be very busy helping me keep things alive and growing. Hopefully, once I get the hang of not killing anything, I can start my very own herb garden. I love to cook, so it makes sense to me to have my own veggie/herb garden (especially in these rough times). Anyways, wish me luck and pray for my plants hehe!!