July’s From Seeds to Harvest Giveaway
July 6, 2009
This month we will be giving away a free copy of Making and Managing Money for Teens e-book. This is a $16.97 value!
When children work for their money
they value it so much more!
The best education a child can receive is from
REAL LIFE
while they are still under the guidance of their parents.
As parents you should encourage them to put their special talents to work for them.
Point out ways for them to use their mind and ability to create their own home business.
Making and Managing Money for Teens was written by an 18 year old with a true entrepreneurial spirit. Olivia Brodock shares simple, yet practical ways to make and manage money.
Olivia Brodock gives 45 suggestions that could get your child started on the road to being an entrepreneur.
Olivia and her family operate two family businesses from their home, and she has her own business; Southern Belle Bath Products. She has also authored the book Growing and Using Culinary Herbs.
Every young person has opportunities to make money all around them. They simply need to figure out what they are good at, or at the very least, what they are capable of doing. They need to identify the needs of others and figure out a way to fill that need and profit from it.
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Just leave a comment some time this month telling us about your garden and we’ll put your name in the drawing. If possible leave a link to your blog with pictures of your garden.
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Comments (28)
Our garden has started producing! We are about to make pickles with all the cukes!
We are using tomatoes, green beans, leeks, and herbs, From our garden.
We just moved to a “new” house and began Lasagna Gardening all over again. It really produces great results and planning to put in a full blown herb garden next season!
No harvesting yet, but maybe tomatoes very soon!
We planted a garden for the very first time this year! So far there’s not much happening though
We bought tomato plants as well as cucumber plants and they’re doing ok. We have a few blossoms on the tomato plants. My brother in-law gave us some sweet pepper plants and we are on our second batch of beans (we got 2 plants out of 1 package) from seeds. I sure hope we at least get tomatos because we use a lot of tomato based sauces! I’d love to win this book for my two girls who are 14 and almost 13. I know it would be a wonderful thing for them (and us!).
Hi Everybody,
Well, family surgery summer and bean beetles aside, our garden is growing well.
I’ve been anxiously awaitng my first tomatoes and on eis turning red this week! Yeah!
I pulled the broccoli out a few weeks ago as the cabbageworm had done it’s business all over and there was no broccoli to be had.
Bean Beetles have tried to ravage the beans and so the crop is waning but I found out about BT (bacillus Thuring…), and biological deterent and it’s working. I didn’t want to use sevin dust after reading in several places that it kills bumble bees.
I gave up on the lettuce, it’s all bitter, pretty but bitter.
The squash and stevia are growing well.
That’s all for now I have another family member healing and needs me…..ttfn
Hello Mrs. Brodock!
I posted my garden update! We have had some colder weather, so the cabbage, lettuce and peas are still doing good. I hope that you are having a great week!
Here is my link:
http://gardeningformyfamily.blogspot.com/2009/07/harvest-from-garden.html
I added a post about finding a use for the herb, Hyssop, at just the right time. Hope to add some more herbal posts this month. I have enjoyed working some with drying herbs lately.
Does this give you an updated link? Thank you, Elida
http://avirtuouswoman.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=1zn4ovbzkffcv
The children each had a wonderful little square foot garden plot going, but today the wind rose and we had a terrible storm! The children are so disappointed. They were planning on doing their own canning. Things looked pretty bad when the storm ended and the sun went down. We’ll have to check in daylight to tomorrow to see if there is much to salvage.
We have probably harvested about 50 pounds of tomatoes so far. All our squash/cucumber family plants have been invaded by the cucumber beetle/squash bug/bacterial wilt. We did get probably 10 pounds of yellow squash before they took over, 1 plant is still producing. 3 spaghetti squash. I tried to pick them off and kill them but obviously didn’t get them all. Lots of various kinds of peppers, beans, potatoes, onions are being harvested.
Getting ready to can more tomato sauce and maybe some salsa as well this morning.
How do you keep the birds and squirrels off the blueberry bushes. One day the berries are nearly ready to be plucked and the next morning they are gone!
We’ve put netting over them and the animals get up under the netting and have a feast.
What do you suggest?
We have a small herb garden this year, some tomatoes, and peppers! I’ve been harvesting and using herbs for quite a while, and just saw my first red tomato last week!
Your emails have inspired us, and we got 11 lbs. of cherries that were on sale and froze over half of them a few days ago. I’m stocking up my pantry, even though I didn’t grow them myself!!! 
So far I have harvested lots of blueberries and squash. The tomatoes are growing very well but no signs of any getting ripe yet. The melons are growing larger and should be ready to pick before August. The peppers are getting very big(Big Bertha) but I am waiting for them to turn red. The weeds are growing exceptionly well inspite of mulch, plastic and weed proof fabric!
I planted a garden for the first time this year and it didn’t do so well. I still have some tomatoes growing and some squash and one stalk of corn. I did have some onions as well. Nothing else made it. I have learned that in this Texas heat we do not need to have our gardens in full sun and if you can put them in a shady place where they are not baking in the sun for 14+ hours a day, they will prosper. So next year I will be building raised beds (we have clay soil) and putting them in a grove of cedar trees and I plan to have a really nice garden next year. I will have lots of compost by then for rich soil and hope to have lots of veggies to can and eat.
Our gardens have been doing well until the past two weeks. The gophers have eaten every one of my son’s pumpkins. Thankfully, his corn, beans, and sunflowers still look great. We’ve started harvesting our cherry tomatoes and green zebra. My daughter eats them as soon as I pick them. The big tomatoes looks so great and I’m going crazy waiting for them to turn red. It seems like it takes fooooorever!!
We have deer! I’ve moved a tomato (which is all I was brave enough to plant this year) up to the house in the flower bed and they have even found that…any good SOLUTIONS.
We joined the community garden this year, and we are already having a bountiful crop! I planted most of my plants as seedlings, very few seeds. But we have a 10X20 garden, with lettuces, collards, broccoli, kale, peppers, beans, tomatoes, zucchini, cauliflower,and fennel! We already ate some of our salad, kale, peppers, zucchini, and broccoli. What fun! It was a lot of work to start, but we are having a blast with the harvest.
So, ‘How does my garden grow?’ Nicely thank you. My oldest daughter has a pet rabbit and it loves my bitter lettuce, so the work wasn’t wasted after all,
I am LOVING my Cherokee Purple (heirloom) tomatoes, so meaty, yum. We’re getting some nice squash despite the powdery mildew on 2. I did lose 1 squash plant to the vine borer insect, though. My loofahs have been very slow growing (needs better placement next year) but i have one small loofah baby.
Stevia plants are nice and bushy, disease free. Our Green beans are still fighting the bean beetles. BT worked great, but when it was due again, it rained, washing off the biological deterrent. By the time it’d dried AND my schedule allowed for another spraying, there were adults all over the place.
A friend suggested that I put in a second crop in August, as she’s had better luck with second crops than first in our area. I may do that as I wanted to put some up and haven’t been able to care for them as I would’ve liked. the green beans we’re getting are still good, just not as plentiful as they should be. I was thinking also of putting in pole beans as my back is killing me with the bush beans. I’ll let you guys know.
Well, I guess that’s it for now, happy summer to all!
Hello! we are doing two gardens this summer. We live in Northern Japan so our gardens grow much slower than those in the U.S. It has been very interesting learning how to garden the way that the Japanese people garden. (it is the #1 pasttime for both men and women here in Japan) This is our 2nd time to garden here – we have lived here just over a year! We planted: carrots, cucumbers, corn, potatoes, green beans, kabocha (japanese squash), and peppers.
Thanks so much for entering me into the giveaway!
SHellee
Our tomatoes look beautiful..keep blooming but not many tomatoes. However, we’ve got cucs coming in great and peaches. Yumm!!
My garden is in it`s winter as we are in New Zealand. I have proudly cooked with my frozen home grown organic tomatoes, eaten fresh jeruselum artichokes and pumpkins through the cold months. I have finished harvesting our tamarillos (tree tomatoes) and now our orange tree is in full swing.
My little three year old darling son Christopher calls our garen our farm. We are picking turnips, lettuce, spring oninions, leeks, celery, silverbeet, spinach , parsely, thyme,sage and rhubarb. We love giving gifts of fresh produce from our garden. We have taught two ohter families to make their own garden too.
My 16 year old son Eden grew all our tomatoes last season. Brilliant! Now we are planning our spring gardens. Both the boys want to grow strawberries. Christopher has his seeds sown and has planted a banana tree in his litlte plot. Eden will plant carrots and more tomatoes.
I love gardening,, I love my family and I love geting my family gardening.:)
I have canned 23 pints of Green beans so far. My tomato plants are producing but the tomato are rotten before they are ripe. For the first time I planted a couple of herb plants. They have done great but I have not done so well keeping up with them. This has been a test year for me with herbs.
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Even though the heat of the summer and lack of rain have been obstacles, the LORD has continued to bless our garden. We have been able to can up bread & butter pickles, sweet hot pickles, firey Texas pickles, fig preserves, tons of pasta sauce, stewed tomatoes and spicy tomato sauce to name a few. We have also been blessed with our herbs…we have dehydrated and frozen some as well as been able to use them fresh. Of course canning doesn’t stop at the garden, I have been able to make up lots of stocks to have on hand. That saves a ton of money at the store. There’s the breads that we have been able to bake and freeze.White bread, wheat bread…one of my favorites is using the garden fresh zucchini for zucchini bread. I have had a ton of them baked and put in the freezer for later use. This came in handy for when our Church youth were holding bake sales for their conference this Summer. If I was low on time to bake I could easily pull out some homemade breads to thaw the night before and voila I was bake sale ready. I was able to catch a great sale on corn not too long back and used the cobs to make jelly. Waste not want not!
I just love canning and preserving. It’s such a great feeling to know that when you open your pantry doors or freezer you are well stocked on things. Hubby laughs because we have not only been able to fill our pantry with home canned items, it is has now spilled over to our laundry room cupboards. We are running out of shelf space to store it all! But if that’s our only problem then we’re doing pretty good. *grin*
Blessings to you all.
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We finally picked our 1st batch of tomatoes and along with them the last of our lettuce-great timing since we planned tacos for dinner!
Bought 20lbs of cherries and 20lbs of peaches at the farmer’s mkt over the weekend. The peaches are calling! We made a batch of cherry jam and several dehydrator trays of cherry roll ups. the rest of the cherries were pitted and frozen for winter pies, etc. After we were done my neighbor told me she has a cherry pitter….sigh!
Our zucchini has been a great producer. Getting tired of sauted zucchini so will try the brownie recipe I found. Also cut some up like fries and dipped them in an egg wash then a bread crumb mix with parmesan and Italian seasonings. Baked goodness! Dipped in marinara sauce they were the kids favorite-even beating out the BBQ chicken!
Hi! We’ve planted a garden this year! We live in town, but we used our front flowerbed as a garden!! We planted green beans, bell peppers, squash, tomatoes, okra, strawberries, mint tea and eggplant. We have had squash and greenbeans a couple of times, and we are about to have a dinner serving of okra. We are also getting our first eggplant and the tomatoes are just now making fruit. Something ate all our strawberries, but we have tons of peppers. It has been such a blessed adventure for my daughters and I!! Thanks for the encouragement. We will know more and hopefully plan better for our little garden spot.