How to Grow Potatoes in a Bag

Want to learn how to easily grow potatoes in a portable, space saving, and easy way that even apartment dwellers can do?  Read this blog post to find out.

How to Make the Good Ranch Dressing

Let's face it.  It seems like every ranch dressing is different, and there are some bad ones out there. I'm going to give you the secret to a phenomenal recipe that will make your friends say, "Oooo, you've got the good ranch!" (And my favorite - it's cheap, too!)

How to Make Easy Old-Fashioned Refrigerator Pickles

If you're old enough to remember drug store barrel pickles, or like me and have never eaten them, you will absolutely fall in LOVE with these easy to make, long lasting, homemade, refrigerator pickles...

Hubby's Favorite Meatloaf Recipe

As part of Becky's Cooking Lessons series, here's my husband's favorite meatloaf recipe.  It also uses ingredients from my garden...

Pallet Garden Growth

I thought it would be more effective to see my pallet garden grow before your eyes.  Here's some pics from beginning to present.  I'll update this post with new pictures as the garden matures...

Pick'em and Preserve'm Strawberries

I finally made it to the U-Pick strawberry place in New Braunfels, TX, just outside San Antonio, with my elder companion...

Holy Pallet Garden, Batman!

Now that we had a good soaking rain last week, the pallet garden is getting into the swing of things...

San Antonio Edible Weeds - What's in My Backyard

Salad from all wild plants in my yard

It's weed season in San Antonio, aka wildflower season.  So which ones in my backyard are edible?...

Pallet Garden Update Mar 29

potatoes and carrots - 3 pallets deep

Here's how my pallet garden grows...

Pallet Garden Update Mar 13, 2013

Here's another pallet garden update.  Things are going well...

Pallet Garden Update

Just a quick update on my pallet garden so far.  I love it!  Here's 7 reasons why...

Pick Your Own Farms near San Antonio, TX

For all the fruits and vegetables I can't grow on my own, I'd like to be able to pick them fresh from the plant.  They taste sooooo much better that way!  So, I'm compiling a list of places within a day trip time frame from San Antonio, TX.

Fresh Eggs and Mushrooms Are Sooooo Good!

There is no comparison when using fresh ingredients to store bought.  What's even better than fresh ingredients?  Two different fresh ingredients.  Mushrooms and Eggs

Seedlings Update

You saw in my earlier post how to make a seedling incubator using milk jugs and toilet paper rolls.  Here are my beautiful little seedlings yearning to grow!

Planted Jan 10, 2013

Jan 14, 2013

Little cabbage sprouts!

How to Plants Seeds Cheaply Using Milk Jugs and Toilet Paper Rolls

An easy way to plant your seeds indoors to have seedlings to put out in your garden, is to use milk jugs and TP or paper towel rolls.

Save your TP rolls and milk jugs.

You can also use your milk jug caps as poker chips!

Becky's Pallet Garden

I've been planning and working on my garden for over a month now getting it all ready to go for when it's a little warmer.  I decided to go with pallet gardening.  It was much easier than the rock wall I was thinking of making.  And, you can get pallets for free!  You know me, all about the cheap stuff.

San Antonio Vegetable Gardening Guide and Resources

I want to grow a vegetable garden, but we have caliche which is basically rock. So, I'll need to create raised beds.  Given the state of my neck, I will probably get my husband and/or the lawn guy to build them for me.  Then I'll just kneel down to work in them.

Living in Louisiana, it is harder to kill plants than to grow them.  Living in San Antonio now I have the opposite problem.  While I'm new to San Antonio gardening, I will share with you what I learn.