Setting Up A Small Area for Cukes

Today I'm planting cucumbers in the ground.  I usually plant cucumbers in pots, but this year I haven't kept up with potting up the plants, so this happened...

New Planting Experiment

So after going through "Promotion Day," I realized that my plants have been touching the ground.  Unfortunately, this may invite all sorts of bugs and disease not to mention what might happen if the gardener gets too close with his trimmer!

Planting Update

Hello there!

These pictures are taken 12 days after "Promotion Day."  As you can see there has been phenomenal growth due to soil and, of course, TLC.

Getting Ready for the New Gardening Season

So this year as in years past, I have learned some lessons from the past and am also applying some new lessons I've gotten from fellow gardeners.  First of all, I have to clean up all the algae that love to feed on my liquid fertilizer.

Repairing My Rain Barrel

So I have this rain barrel by Fiskars that had been good for me and for my garden.  But recently after I left it out during a freeze, it developed a minute crack somewhere and wasn't filling up anymore.  After reading more about it on Amazon (since I was thinking of just purchasing a new one) I found that most of the complaints about this barrel was due to the same issue.  The shoddy spigot was the second-most hated thing about this barrel.

And because I pride myself on spending little to nothing on my hobby, I felt that paying nearly $100 for something that might cause me more problems was out of the question.

How I get PREMIUM soil for free!

Oh No! Hard Freeze!

Oh No! A hard freeze has hit and I didn't protect my plants!

Well, join the club. As you can see from the above picture, I tried to cover the plants with plastic only to find out the next morning that it was sorely insufficient.  Since I water "from the bottom" the pots were all stuck in ice blocks.

Welcome! And Happy New Year!

Welcome!

And Happy New Year!  Welcome to my inaugural post for my brand new blog Budget Gardening.  As you might have already guessed, this blog will be dedicated to the proposition that you don't have to be rich or even have two extra cents to rub together in order to have a nice garden.