A quick update with what’s growing in the $5 Dinners garden this week…
Square Foot Gardening
I’ve been tilling, fertilizing, transplating and planting in my Square Foot Gardening planters…
Ever thought about how gardening can impact your child?! I really hadn’t until last week…when Ryan shows up in the car after school with his garden “book.” What you see pictured above is the cover of his garden book. He’s my little engineer…seeing things from different angles. 1. The blue sky. 2. The square foot [...]
I was working on dinner over the weekend when Steve pops into the kitchen with a few handfuls of itty bitty tomatoes. So naturally, I whipped up a quick Pesto Bruschetta with homemade garden pesto sauce I stashed in the freezer.
Chicken chunks sauteed with taco seasoning and green/red peppers from the garden…plus avocado chunks and other fave taco fixings! Yum…
Super expensive, all natural sausage from the farmer’s market is the star of this meal…but it costs almost $5 itself! Find out how much this dish ended up costing…
Looking for a spicy new topping for your favorite burger?! How about some onions with a lotta zing?!
So I can’t believe we are in the middle of August…but that means it’s time to start planting for the fall. I had every intention to get some seeds into the ground by the end of July, but that just did not happen…Find out what I’ll be planting for the fall!










