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| The nasturtium baskets are looking good. The leaves are big enough to pluck to add to salads. I grew these plants from seeds collected from the previous year. |
Serious frugality (as opposed to casual frugality) takes a lot of work and energy.
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| My lavender container garden. The left square pot is the one I spray painted. The right round pot used to be beige. The sun bleached it over the years. I had peppermint growing in it until a week ago. I transplanted all of the peppermint into 4 pots and will hopefully harvest even more peppermint to use for tea. The little bird figurine was from a free pile last summer. |
DIY repairing and maintaining a home or car also takes a lot of knowledge. Cooking from scratch requires time, work, and energy. Keeping clothing and shoes in good repair takes work and time.
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| One shelf of my lettuce bins. I think the 8 inch deep bins are producing better than the milk jug pots from last year. |
Growing one's own food, whether in the form of a vegetable garden, a fruit orchard, or livestock, requires a huge amount of work, knowledge, and energy.
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| The last of this year's tulips in pots, sitting on a birch tree log table. |
Canning all of that home-grown bounty requires knowledge, time and energy. Even thrift store and yard sale shopping is time-intensive.
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| Nothing terribly frugal about this photo, except maybe that the pot is about 28 years old. I hope to gather seeds from the creeping Jenny for next year's pots and restart the begonias again next spring after a winter in the garage. |
What I'm getting at is sometimes I disappear from this blog for a week at a time. Most often the reason is I am in the midst of practicing some serious frugality. The last couple of weeks have been labor intensive, to be sure. I'll update you all on some of my projects later this week.
Till next time . . .
