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Frugal Tips

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25.06.18 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Moneysaving Tips for Gardeners

do as I say + Frugal Tips + gardening tips

Dirt Cheap Garden Ideas Not everyone can afford a bath size water garden kit, but what about using an old tub that was cast off from a remodeling project? What about old teacups turned into bird feeders? Or signs made out of old lumber, or the newest trend… making stuff out of wooden pallets? In the…

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06.07.16 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Visit An Arboretum And Save Dollars On Your Landscape

Frugal Tips + Garden design ideas

What if you could see which shrubs and trees grow well in your landscape? Or learn of plants mature sizes without waiting for years? An Arboretum can show and tell.  What Is An Arboretum? An Arboretum is a place where trees are grown, but not only trees. Many are places to find shrubs, perennials, and…

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16.03.12 | Ilona Erwin | 5 Comments

More Than Pretty

Frugal Tips

 It’s true, and that was something I wrote about in these garden thoughts. But pretty can make some of life’s all too real tragedy bearable. It is that fine balance, really, that the making of art revolves around. There is a time for photo documentary and there is a time for photoshop… to put it…

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07.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Wall Street Guru Gives Gardening Advice

Food + Frugal Tips

Swiss Chard Not Swiss Banks There is an awful lot of speculation about the economy and where the financial shape of the world (and our future) is going and proffered advice on how we can protect ourselves from hard times. Jim Rogers, Well Known Investment Guru Jim Rogers, an expert investor, has good advice for…

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08.04.10 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

If you would like to follow more of my adventures…

Frugal Tips

Sometimes too many blogs in the fire are too much of a good thing, I know… for reading and writing. However (you knew that was coming, right?) I had decided to break up the topics that I write on into separate blogs some time ago (before blogging, actually, when making that first Geocities website). ANYWAY…

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12.01.10 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

Gardening, Greening, and Saving Society

Frugal Tips

Survivor, America is a financial oriented article/video from Yahoo Finance, today. It centers around a point of view that many of us have become familiar with- but I wanted to look at it from the Gardener’s perspective. In short, Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute, predicts that things are going to become much…

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29.04.09 | Ilona Erwin | 6 Comments

Eye on the Future: growing our food

Food + Frugal Tips + Vegetable garden

Article on what you might expect from planning a small market garden offers up this advice:         II. Creating Your Own Successful Market Garden How do you prepare? 1. START SMALL! Don’t plant more than you can care for properly, and sell or use. 2. Determine the market or markets you will…

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30.03.09 | Ilona Erwin | 6 Comments

Chickens in the City Controversy

Frugal Tips

Chickens vs Property Values. What ever happened to common sense? Regulatory powers and the thinking of martinets combine to make mountains out of molehills. Why not just apply the common sense rules that already apply to animals in an urban environment? Sanitation and flock size regulations make sense, but outlawing a generally beneficial animal does…

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17.02.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Oh Darling- You Will LOVE This

Frugal Tips + tomatoes

This video is for anyone who is interested in saving seeds, particularly tomato seeds, but it is most especially for my husband. Handyman has been very interested in Survival blogs and their know how… and ( happily for me) has voiced interest in helping me garden this year. This is good news, I’m tellin’ ya….

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05.02.09 | Ilona Erwin | 8 Comments

The Gardening Bubble

Frugal Tips

You’ve heard of the real estate bubble, and talk of other bubbles as well, but we gardeners have our own forms of the dreaded “bubble”. Remember history’s “Tulipomania”? Yep, everyone had to have tulips, the latest and rarest one, and a bubble was born to illustrate all other bubbles. Wherever the tale of tulips are…

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I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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