Ideas and Plans

So, I've been reading a lot of other Frugal blogs, and I have to say that I'm leaning towards trying to do $100 a month for groceries. It will be easier when the garden is in and in full swing, but we will see. Neither of us are working currently, and funds are VERY tight.

I am very much looking forward to a larger garden this year.  TB made a garden for me last year that was probably 5x5 ft, with a little 2x2 addition on one end for the blueberry bush and the strawberries. I had several sugar snap pea plants, five roma tomato plants, five potato, some onions, and four cucumber plants. Two of the cucumbers died within two weeks of planting, the other two were..sickly looking, but we managed to get three cucumbers from them. I got a colander full of potatoes, almost a bushel of tomatoes, the onions didn't do so well, and we ate the peas from the vines. BB loved the peas most, but I recently found a tomato on the floor (store bought, alas) that he had eaten half of then discarded.

This year, I'm hoping for at least twice as much as we did this year, plus lettuces, carrots, radishes, maybe even some corn. I didn't mention yet that the blueberry bush seems fine, but we didn't get any this year. The strawberries, however... we had been told not to expect any berries this year. When I bought the plants, they had a couple of berries on them, then they stopped producing. In late August, they started blooming like mad, and we ended up getting berries right up until the frost! We're going to let the strawberries take over the small garden this year, and build a bigger one for the vegetables. The strawberries were already trying to take it over by the time we were harvesting the tomatoes!

I'll let you know how the rest of the 'no spend' month goes. So far, we've stuck to our guns, with the minor exceptions of pj's for BB and a couple of McD's meals when we were in a rush with stuff. I couldn't resist the pirate jammies for BB, although the Viking ones were tempting as well.