Landscape fabric

From: Paige

Question: I loved your gardening tips. Especially using
milk jugs as greenhouses for young plants that
prefer to be warm, and the ideas for kids.

My vegetable garden tip is to lay down
landscaping fabric and then plant. I start my own
seeds so this tip is easy to use, I just cut
an 'X' in the fabric but it could be used for
direct planting of seeds too. Using landscape
fabric saves me from having to weed- which I
dislike, especially in the middle of summer when
everything seems to be growing green and fast.

And since it doesn't break down, you can use the
fabric for years.


My 2¢:
I got some free landscape fabric from a rebate at Ace. I have to say this stuff has changed my life! I used to use newspaper but now if the soil is good I will use this. It is much easier to handle than blowing newspapers all over Kansas! hehehe

I did when the newspapers down but I found the landscape fabric to be easier to work especially for free!
Tawra


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Cheap seeds

(Thanks for sending it! What a small world! Tawra :-)

From: Sheri

I'm your 3rd cousin....

I have frugal way of gardening. Walgreens has a
10 cents per packet of seeds usually in January
and February (watch their sale papers and if you
don't get them on a regular basis, you can look
online www.walgreens.com and look for their
weekly ads). You'll need to use the Walgreen's
coupons which you can get in the store. Last
year, our flower garden only costed us $3.00
including our okra and yellow squash plants by
buying the seeds for 10 cents a packet. We have
saved our little jiffy greenhouses and buy the
replacement discs and start over each year. Our
neighbors all around us rave on our flower garden
and we share our secret and now our next door
neighbor wants a fluorishing garden as we have!


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Starting Seeds

From: Louise Reilly Sacco


When you're starting seeds for your garden, place
the trays on top of the refrigerator. That nice
even warmth will help them germinate. When
they're about 1" tall, move them to a sunny spot.

Louise Reilly Sacco
Frugal Yankee Radio Hour
www.FrugalYankee.com


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Free Plants

The best thing I have found is to talk with
friend s family and neighbors to see if anyone
will "split" some of the perinnals with you! Get
in touch with a local church or elderly community
and see if they need help in the garden for
exchange for starters. The company would sure
please the elderly and will give you alot of tips
and tricks from long ago. It will do the both of
you good...inside and out!
Good Luck! Felina

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Garden Tips

From: Rosemarie Bailey

I buy a vegetable at the store and plant the
seeds. I have so many papaya plants from one
fruit. I am now taking the seeds and roasting
them and then grinding them into a "pepper" for
salad dressing.

I cut the eyes off of a few potatoes. I took
large old plastic pots and put a shallow layer
of soil and the eye cuttings into the pots. As
the plants grow, I keep adding soil. This makes
the plants stronger and grows more potatoes, and
all for free.

I took cloves of garlic, broke them apart, and
have lots of new garlic plants growing, also
almost free.

Cuttings of tomato plants grow very well. I dig
a small ditch and lay the stem into the ditch,
leaving only a few leaves exposed. The roots
develop rapidly, and new plants grow. I do not
buy seeds or plants: I simply dry the seeds from
a few tomatoes, and then plant them. The same
goes for peppers!

I bought corriander seeds at the spice section
of a grocery store, and I sowed them, a few at a
time. Much cheaper than buying seeds, and the
plants are wonderful.

I love ginger, and I did not know what it would
do, so I bought a few roots at the grocery
store. I now have about 12 ginger plants. They
have not flowered yet, nor do I know how the
roots will taste, but at about 40 cents, I am
having fun watching them grow, and I am very
hopeful.

I bought some dried beans in the grocery store,
and ended up with wonderful bean plants around
my fence, and a whole lot more dried beans, and
the ones I cooked were delicious.

I also have about 15 banana plants that came
from one small plant someone gave me. I freeze
the peeled bananas, and eat them year round.

I grow all kinds of spices and herbs, and some
of these reseed themselves. I divide my plants
at the roots to make new plants. This works
especially well for my lemon grass and tarragon.

My gardening area is rather small, at most 400
square feet total. I sure do love eating the
fruit from it. I tried Nasturtium this year, and
the flowers are plentiful and delicious along
with my mezclun salad plants.

I would be happy to share papaya seeds with
anyone who care to try them.

Oh, I live in Miami,Florida, Dade County. We
have extreme heat and dry spells, along with
rainy seasons.


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