Grandma Elkins said plant your warm weather, summer vegetable garden when farmers plant cotton. Well it's that time. If you haven't done so, now is the time plant warm weather vegetables. You can save a lot of money on your grocery bill and eat healthy fresh food all summer and well into fall. Fresh vegetables can reduce time spent slaving over a hot cook stove, they have 'short' cooking times and many are best, served raw fresh picked from the garden.
A vegetable garden is real living green.
Home Canning seems to be a dieing art. Few people still know how to can excess produce from their garden allowing them to eat cheap health food fresh from the garden all winter. With continuing rising food cost now may be a good time to learn how to home can or renew your interest in home canning. Many food products are packaged in 'glass' jars suitable for reuse as canning jars. This is a cheap source for jars and a good way to recycle empty containers. Grandma Elkins seemed to prefer mustard and mayonnaise jars for some reason. Your comments keep me blogging. © 2008
1 comments:
I have not heard that expression before - about planting vegetables the same time as cotton. There apparently are now a lot of people who plant and pick according to the moon. One of the websites to see for this (if you are interested and haven't yet heard about it) is: http://www.plantea.com/planting-moon-phases.htm.
Thanks for your comments on the school dinners. Gritty green cabbage is probably one of the worst nightmares of all English school children. lol
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