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I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Angie From the Village of Paisley, Ontario Canada Sends in Her Garden Photos

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A big THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in their photographs and stories. I hope by sharing other peoples pictures and stories here on One Hundred Dollars a Month we can all have a rock star garden this summer. Keep them coming!

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Hello Mavis!
My name is Angie and I garden in the most lovely village of Paisley, Ontario Canada.  I grew up on a farm, where my mother tended to an enormous vegetable garden to feed our family of six – where us four children would spend days shucking peas….and than days snapping beans to be frozen. Despite saying as a child that I would never do that again – I am doing that again, and loving and appreciating it so much.
raised garden boxes
I am just into my second year of vegetable gardening on my own, with the initial goal of producing healthy, seasonal food during the summer- and preserving what I can for the colder, winter months for myself and soon-to-be-husband. Last minute, by chance, I entered some produce into my local fall fair my first year of gardening, and that spurred a sense of competitiveness in me with my dear vegetables, that definitely affected what I grew this year.

sweet pea flowers

The first year, I stuck with tried and true vegetables, and this year I am leaping out and trying all sort of different varieties with many different methods. I love reading up about how others have achieved their success in their gardens, and trying it out on my own – despite maybe not being the most conventional gardening methods in my local area.
fresh garden vegetables
I started with raised beds, using the square-foot-gardening technique mostly – changing it where I saw fit / needed, and just tried to squeeze as much as I could into my little three boxes (hopefully growing to four or five in the future). I try to start as many of the seedlings as I can myself – I have a great sense of accomplishment that I feel when I can bring a tiny tomato seed to a monstrous tomato plant.prize winning peppers
It also allows me to try very different vegetables in my gardens  – watermelon radish! Bok Choy! Purple peppers! Yum! But I do supplement with nursery seedlings – mostly where my seedlings have failed (my cat ate all my pepper seedlings last year), did not have enough of – or the random variety I see last minute and snag up to plant (hello?! Eggplant?!)
raised garden boxes
I have a new companion, Chewie, this year to help – he is my (now) 11 month old Bernese. We got him last October, after all the harvesting was done. So this is his first year with the garden. He helps by mostly chewing on the sticks I pull out. But he thought the pea seedlings needed rearranging one day, and jumped in the garden beds to take care of that. He has since stuck to his stick chewing. Hehe.

seedlings

I love to share my gardening on my blog, along with art work that I create (and other musings) at Part-timecreative.blogspot.com I know I love reading what other people are growing and how their gardens are coming along – so I hope by sharing my pictures, I inspire the same in someone else.

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From a part of Canada that sees a lot of snow, I’m happy to say, we see a lot of garden in our quick summers.
Smiles, Angie 🙂
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If you would like to have your garden, chicken coop or something you’ve made featured on One Hundred Dollars a Month, here’s what I’m looking for:

  • Your Garden Pictures and Tips – I’d especially like to see your garden set ups, growing areas, and know if you are starting seeds indoors this year. If so,  show me some picture of how you are going about it.
  • Your Chicken and Chicken Related Stories – Coops, Chicks, Hen’s, Roosters, Eggs, you name it. If it clucks, send us some pictures to share with the world.
  • Cool Arts & Crafts – Made from your very own hands with detailed {and well photographed} pictures and instructions.
  • Your pictures and stories about your pets. The more pictures and details the better.
  • Garage Sale, Thrift Store and Dumpster Diving pictures and the stories behind the treasures you found including how much you paid for them.

If I feature your pictures and the stories behind them on One Hundred Dollars a Month, I will send you a $20.00 gift card to the greatest store in the world: Amazon.com.

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