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GenX gal💪Former Corporate Slug👎Gardener🌺Urban Homesteader🥦Maker🧶Baker🍰 Frugal Life Living💵Vintage Obsessed✨️Food Preservation🫙Overall Hot Mess🤷‍♀️Follow as I kill more veggies than I harvest, & try to make more with less on my urban Texas lot!😜

08/12/2026

I always forget that I have two, old-school, OG "InstantPots" in this house. Sure does make things fast & easy when you have a freezer full of large cuts of meat, that would normally take DAYS just to THAW!

Yes, there's the time taken to vent, get to pressure, and reduce pressure, so total time is around 45 minutes, with the cooking portion being, 25 minutes. But, considering roasting this thing would take HOURS, I'm calling this a WIN! Plus, I don't need to buy or store any additional appliances 😁





08/08/2026

This week's grocery haul!! My weekly budget is $150, and this was WELL below that mark!

The green beans will yield about 28 pints of canned green beans (the cans in the store are only 14 oz, and a pint is 16 oz), the tomatoes, about 16 pints (8 quarts) per 25lb case.

Looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me....especially because I still have all those bananas from last week to deal with! 😆 🤣





08/07/2026

One of the craziest little defense mechanisms, ever - wear your enemies! 😆 🤣

Green Lacewings are SUPER predators in the garden! They eat aphids (a single larva can eat hundreds), spider mites (and we know I have PLENTY of those), thrips, whiteflies, mealybugs, and small caterpillar eggs. So, they might look a little funky, and might be a bit macabre, but they are indispensable to have in your garden!





08/05/2026

Nature is such a cool, and interesting thing!

The North American wheel bug, eats all sorts of nasties like stink bugs, squash bugs, and various destructive caterpillars, so they are good to have around, just DON'T TOUCH THEM!





07/30/2026

Multiplier onions!! What a fun find in my garden tower, this morning. From a small grocery store green onion, to 6 LARGE onion bulbs!

I get asked all the time, "If I plant my sprouting onion, will I get more onions?", and the answer is, no. Because, those types of onions are biennial (energy into leaves & roots, the first year, and flowers & seeds, the next then imminent 💀). But, in the case of perrenial multiplier onions, you absolutely can plant out the individual bulbs & you will get MORE bulbs! Since I grew these from grocery store scallions, I didn't have to bother with planting seeds, sets, or slips, either, and they were dirt cheap!! Only, 99 cents for 10 green onions/scallions. If each one produces 6 bulbs, that's 60 onions for less than a dollar!





07/25/2026

Come shopping with me!

I'm not "cheap", I'm FRUGAL! There's a difference!




07/23/2026

A couple weekends ago, my fiance & I visited the Parker County Peach Festival where we loaded up on local TX peaches!

I love my vintage canning books, and this 1963 Ball Blue Book of Canning, has some fantastic peach recipes. As always, NOTHING goes to waste around here, so the skins went right into a jar of vinegar to sit for a week, for peach vinegar.

Now, you can make vinegar the old fashioned way with the skins, and a bit of sugar, but it takes much longer and frankly, I have a lot of lettuce to eat that requires some good, homemade vinegarette, stat!

And, if you're going to make peach jam, you HAVE to have some crusty sourdough. Mmmmmm!! 🍑 🍑





07/18/2026

The things that happen in my garden. Can't make this 💩, up. Well, ONE of us, can. Guess I know what she thinks of beans, now. 😆 🤣





07/17/2026

One word - cyclospora. This parasite is in our commercial produce, and is caused by the food being exposed to HUMAN F***S. This can be through irrigation methods, but also through compost contamination (if you need a new rabbithole to go down, look up wastewater treatments to biosolids, and how they're sold to commercial farmers for compost).

I joke about the END result of the parasite (pun, totally intended), but in all seriousness, this is dangerous stuff, especially for the immunocompromised. And we can prevent this by taking control of who grows our food, and how it is grown. Let's learn, and let's get GROWING!

If you're in the DFW area, check out my site at, www.thegardensatsmallmeadow.com, and connect with me so we can get you off on the right foot to taking control of your food!





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