Suzie Homemaker is here to help you live more frugally and save money. In my blog, I will show you how to can vegetable, fruits.and to make and do things cheaply.Why spend more time and money when you can make and do things a lot cheaper.
Welcome back to Suzie Homemakers helpful tips and ideas. Hope you liked your homemade fruit roll-ups. Today I would like to continue on with more dehydrating ideas. Like I said my dehydrator gets used at least once a week. Another thing I like to make with my dehydrator is apple and banana and pear chips plus homemade raisins. My children don’t like to eat fresh bananas but when I make banana chips it’s like candy to them. I like to watch when the grocery stores have bananas getting too ripe and I buy several pounds at a time. Most grocery stores will sell these bananas at a discounted price. Watch for pears and apples to be on sale too so you can dehydrate these also. I like to buy the purple grapes to dehydrate for homemade raisins. There are so many different kinds of fruits you can dehydrate. If you ever priced dry fruit out in the store it is very expensive. Dehydrating your own saves a lot of money.I like to make my own trail mix this way and it’s much cheaper than buying it in the store. Dehydrating fresh fruit cut into pieces is another great way to save money. You can sprinkles then on your favorite cereal in the morning. Just remember that dehydrating fruit will take you most of the day. The raisins and bananas took over 10 hours to dehydrate. The apples took a little less time.
In my short video, I will show you step by step how to make banana and apple chips, plus homemade raisins with the dehydrator. It’s easy and fun to do plus it saves you money. The whole family will love them.
Have more fun dehydrating from Suzie Homemaker
Since most people have their gardens in already, it’s time
to talk about those darn weeds. Weeds are a job that never ends. Yes, fresh vegetables are nice, but weeds are
a pain. I thought I would give some tips
on how to help limit the infestation of weeds so you can enjoy the rewards of
gardening. No garden is weed free and here
a three ways that can help you when you’re gardening.
Use
grass clippings as weed control
You can use grass clippings
anywhere you have gardens.For me, it is
really nice because while my husband is mowing lawn he blows most of the grass
clippings on one of my onion gardens for me. I take the rest of the clippings
and I sprinkle a thin layer around all the rows that don’t get covered. Every
time he mows the lawn I sprinkle another thin layer of grass clippings down and
this helps keep the weeds down.If you
want to save lawn clippings for other projects, just put in a garbage can.
Use cardboard for weed control
Cardboard
is another good way to control weeds. Placing cardboard in-between the rows
with wood chips on top really works very well. This method is also good around
trees and bushes. Cardboard is biodegradable so over the next year the
cardboard will break down. Next year, all you have to do is till the cardboard
back into your soil.
Use wood chips for weed control
If you don’t want to use cardboard,
trying using just wood chips. Sprinkling these around the plants and in-between
the rows helps keep the weeds down. Plus wood chips help keep moisture in by
letting the water seep through. In some areas you can even get wood chips for
free. Wood chips also look nice around trees and bushes.
In my short video, I will show how
I use all three ways in my gardens as weed control.
