How To Cut & Harden Flowers
I found this interesting article in a magazine from 1946 that gives advice for hardening several different kinds of cut flowers, enjoy! Vintage Article: How To Cut & Harden Flowers If you are addicted to using a flower-gathering basket, put it away and substitute it for a sizable bucket. Fill it with water, and into [...]
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Sew Stylish Pincushion Tutorial: {Sewing}
Today’s feature is from Tea Rose Home with this Sew Stylish Pincushion: For the longest time, I have been wanting to buy a pincushion for my wrist. Everytime when I am working on a project, I would think “it would be so convenient to have one on my wrist, instead of just having one on [...]
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Learn How To Make Dandelion Wine: {Recipe Tutorial}
Today’s feature is from Venuszine with this tutorial Drunk On Dandelions: Transform summer’s ubiquitous weed-flower into a sweet, flowery wine. Home brewing is a DIY adventure I’ve always wanted to try. I had read about it occasionally and daydreamed about how cool it would be drink a tasty beverage I’d crafted myself. But it took [...]
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Not Too Late To Start A Small Garden – Frugal Challenge
Even though many folks are already starting to pick their first ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans, it’s never too late to start your own garden project.
Your neighbor’s corn may be “knee high by the 4th of July” but never you mind that. Grab a few big containers, take a stroll through your local nursery or farmers market (yes, they sell plants, too), and get a few veggies growing on your patio.
One of our favorite vegetables to grow in containers has always been the “patio tomato” or cherry tomato. You can plant this just about any time of the year because they grow and mature quite fast. It seems like from the time they flower to the time their fruit turns red, it’s only a matter of weeks.
Two tricks to planting cherry or grape tomatoes this late in the season:
1) If it’s very hot where you are, give them a little more shade. Double down your effort to water regularly. You may even want to do one of those “upside down bottle” tricks so the soil doesn’t get the chance to dry completely in the heat of the day.
2) Be sure to choose a big deep container for planting, much bigger than the plant itself, and bury that tomato plant as deep as you can. I have pinched off several bottom “branches” just to get the tomato plant buried deeper and grew some very strong and generous plants. The plants you find now will be quite large and probably leggy if they’ve been in a small pot for too long, so you’ll have lots of stem to bury.
Tomatoes are probably the simplest plants to start late, however you can always plant things like herbs and lettuce just to get a few green things growing. The reason this is frugal? Usually, the plants in the nursery are very inexpensive right now. They don’t want to baby those things forever! They want you to do that! The other frugal aspect, of course, is you get to eat the veggies you grow.
Don’t give up on your garden even though it’s late. Even a little tomato plant on your patio can brighten your day. And if you get your children involved, it will brighten their day, too!
Have a great frugal Monday!
p.s. If you want to get you’re kids started gardening, check out this book to help you get them started right. Click to read Grow It Cook It With Kids and get started today.
You may also want to revisit my article about gardening with kids. Just click on the link below to get an overview of the 5 basic elements to consider when planning a garden with your child.
Planning A Garden With Your Child
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From Hillbilly Housewife Blog.
Dundee Farmer’s Market opens May 15
This post is for my readers in and near Dundee, Mich., and is on page 3A of today’s edition of The Monroe Evening News:
Flower and vegetable plants, children’s crafts and a plant exchange are planned during the first Dundee Farmers Market that opens Saturday in downtown Dundee, Mich.
More than 20 vendors will have booths at [...]
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From Monroe on a Budget.
Yo-Yo Pincushion Tutorial: {Sewing}
Today’s feature is from Crafty Pod with How to Make a Yo-Yo Pincushion:
This design showed up in my sketchbook a long time ago, but I resisted making it because I really don’t need another pincushion. But I do have a pretty serious yo-yo habit, and finally broke down when I couldn’t resist playing with my [...]
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From TipNut.com.
Yo-Yo Pincushion Tutorial: {Sewing}
Today’s feature is from Crafty Pod with How to Make a Yo-Yo Pincushion:
This design showed up in my sketchbook a long time ago, but I resisted making it because I really don’t need another pincushion. But I do have a pretty serious yo-yo habit, and finally broke down when I couldn’t resist playing with my [...]
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From TipNut.com.
Yo-Yo Pincushion Tutorial: {Sewing}
Today’s feature is from Crafty Pod with How to Make a Yo-Yo Pincushion:
This design showed up in my sketchbook a long time ago, but I resisted making it because I really don’t need another pincushion. But I do have a pretty serious yo-yo habit, and finally broke down when I couldn’t resist playing with my [...]
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Tiptoe Through The Tulips – Fuzzy Wuzzy Wednesday
We have a rather early Easter this year which means the tulips are already in the stores. Tulips may not be springing from the ground yet where we live, but at least we can enjoy them with a little stroll through our neighborhood nursery or gardening center.
Tulips are a very friendly flower. They are not fussy or fancy. Tulips look at home in a watering can just as much as they do in a crystal vase.
Traditionally, tulips symbolize “perfect love.” According to Proflowers, the meaning we attach to tulips varies with the color, although the general sentiment is love, pure and simple.
Tulips are seen as a very “innocent” flower and are therefore the flower of choice when the recipient is a child. However, red tulips are usually meant to symbolize true love for an adult. Purple colored tulips often are chosen to denote royalty, a very meaningful color in many churches during Easter. Yellow tulips can symbolize a cheerful love or express happiness. White tulips often is a message of asking for or extending forgiveness.
What I suggest today is a little tiptoe through the tulips. Whether you visit a gardening center or nursery, page through the seed catalog, or pick out a bouquet to send someone you love, take a few minutes today to enjoy the color and purity of the old fashioned tulip.
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From Hillbilly Housewife Blog.
Strawberry Pincushion Tutorial: {Sweet}
Today’s feature is from Embroideroo with this sweet Strawberry Pincushion Tutorial:
Would you like to make a strawberry pincushion? I will show you step by step, how to make these little cuties.
It is very easy. (This pattern will make two pincushions).
Supplies needed are minimal:
8 inch square of red fabric
scrap of green felt
strong thread, sewing needle, [...]
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