Random Posts From The Past
Growing Italian Delights
If you are new to gardening and have never tried to raise your own Italian foods, give this a try. It’s pretty cool when you get to mix up your harvest into a tasty pasta sauce. (Family Features) – Fresh veggie pizza, spaghetti sauce, and pasta with pesto sauce-sound incredible? You’ll be happy to know [...]
Autumn Beauty Sunflowers Are Blooming
Here at Gardening on a Dime, we have a few different sunflowers planted this year. One of the seeds we found on clearance a couple of months ago at one of the big box stores was Autumn Beauty Sunflower. Figuring that for a quarter a packet, we had nothing to lose. And since our whole [...]
Seed Catalog Tips
Spring and early summer are the times of the year that lots of folks flip through seed catalogs and look at seed packets. I was one of those turning pages in a catalog recently and I noticed a few things that I didn’t quite understand. So, as usual, I did a web search to learn [...]
Garden season preparation: Ready tools for the growing season
One of the purposes of Gardening On A Dime is to give you economical tips and hints to get you started down the gardening path. Tools are bought, plants are planted, and then what? Care for those tools is often forgotten as they are laid aside until the next time they are needed. Read these tips and take care of those [...]
Mother’s Day Sunday Garden Quote
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over. George Cooper We would like to wish a “Happy Mother’s Day” to all of our gardening friends who are caretakers of both gardens and children. A woman [...]
