How to live richly on an ever slimming budget,and enjoy yourself doing so. Fresh ideas gardening tips, silly kids & pets and treasures found and rehabbed!
Rustic Garden Bench Craig's List $20 "treasure" that has found a new life on my patio as a tropical plant stand... Pictured with Solar Tiki God to watch over them.
Purchased a couple currant bushes from a local lady and here are pix from 4/27 when we got them home and planted and from over the weekend showing the rapid growth AND the berries coming!
Planted these with some sheep manure compost and does it ever work well!
Purchased a few tropical plants for outside decoration and found a small rider when I was repotting yesterday. He was determined to stay in this particular plant...
Last year we acquired some rhubarb from the local freecycle group. It took off our old house and after we moved last fall we transplanted some with us. Here are pix from 4/27 & 5/12 for comparison.
Spring is here and with our new home I am still finding and locating new things every day. I found 3 of these lovely mushrooms just this morning. Not alot but expensive to buy