So I’m in my second month of saving money by shopping only once a month. I’ve also decided to eat out less. Much, much less. I’ve broken down once and gone out to eat, spending $10.50 for lunch at a great Japanese restaurant. But I only spent about $50 on groceries so far, and I’m not expecting to spend much more, except on a few veggies from the market. I’ll be planting my garden at the end of this month and beginning of the next, so I’m planning to only spend about $20 on food next month. I think I can do it, considering how full my pantry is right now. I have to do better at saying no to going out, especially when I have so much food at home.
In my garden I’m planning to plant 5 heirloom tomatoes, 18 sauce tomatoes, 1 tomatillo, 2-3 squash, 2-3 eggplant, 1 or 2 cucumbers, bunches of green beans, and 24 peppers. I doubt I’ll do melon this year, as my melons were not very successful last year. Right now I have beets, carrots, onions, shallots, leeks, cabbage and lettuce growing, all of which I’m really excited about, but especially the beets and shallots. Yum! I think I also have some volunteer garlic, but I won’t really know until it’s time to harvest. I had a few cloves of garlic that started sprouting in my fridge, so I planted them in the little planter outside my living room window. Stacey warned me that they probably won’t form bulbs (I don’t know why), so I’ll just use them as green garlic, an ingredient that I almost never use, but that I’d like to use.
At the moment, my garden is doing fantastically. My beets and carrots are growing quickly, the onions and shallots look great, and I have tons of lettuce. It's really fantastic! The two things that didn't do well are spinach and cabbage, and I'm not sure why.
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