BellaOnline Forums Money Frugal Living What food do you have growing in your own yard?

Water mint has a lighter taste than peppermint. However, it grows equally well in dirt as it does in water!

I like to plant potatoes in a raised bed. I put the potato pieces on the scuffed up dirt. Then, I cover them with straw and leaves. The potatoes grow up into the mulch and I don't have to dig them. It takes about a foot of mulch. They actually produce more this way than they do planted in the heavy clay of Kansas.

It is tempting to try this with the potatoes. The potatoes are scarred up and have spoiled before they get home from the store. I have rarely planted potatoes in previous years because it was just as inexpensive to buy them. Not anymore, they attempt to pick them with machines, the blades scar them up, bacteria gets into the potato and then it rots the whole bag. Back to planting them the old fashion way, besides when thinning you get the treat of new potatoes!

diana, toss the taters in a mound of dirt and water it sometimes. That's all it takes. let us know how it goes!

This week, with my food stamps, I picked up a heirloom tomato plant, a boxwood basil, cilantro and a spagetti squash plant.

I have to think about where to put the basil. being in AZ, i have to put several of the herbs in the shade. the mint here only thrives in shade, even though the containers suggest full sun. I think the basil will also do better in the shade. Not sure about the others. I do expect that nothing will survive the summer, but that is still a few months off.