hey i just discovered that my sweet potatoe plant that my hsuband had started in teh house, aactually had babies... so now i want to know how to do taht in a big container or tires piled up, cause this little one was just in a regular window container.
as for the person with the veggies all over: try containers. try going vertical. i have very little space with almost no sun so i spent half of last year watching where the sun stayed the most and now have started using tires and wooden boxes and hanging things and layer things upward. there is a lot of information about vertical gardening, container gardening, using recycled stuff for gardening. my husband plants stuff like they do in his village inthailand, he just flings seeds of all the differnt stuff he saved, and when all the stuff is high enough to identify, he starts moving seedlings around and puts things in every available space which is wy i had hot chili peppers in my fushia container, and basil among the geraniums... i do flowers and herbs (medicinal) and he does veggies (any thai seeds that the workers here trade among eachother, rotten veggies flung in the ground, pits, cuttings, whatever, not always successfuly). for us, chilis are a real savings since he eats so many per meal. the same for coriander, basils, and for me, all the herbs. other veggies were less successful , and water here is very very expensive so buying was cheaper then growing, althoug i intend to do cherry tomatoes from hanging bottles (internet idea). and i cheat also. i buy seedlings that are proven to work in jerusalem (up the mountain is the name of our climate area: arid, winter rainfall, cold nights even in summer, cold almost frost winters, rocky soil, rocks everywhere, a glut of rocks, alkaline soil, rocks, and , did i say rocks? so a lot of stuff doesnt work.
as for other frugal things: close to pesach(passsover for us) and although i was one step int eh direction of going shopping for a table cloth and some kitchen thingsy for refurbishing the kitchen /dining /salon area, i stopped at the door and thought. WAIT. can i not cut up and redo some of the older table clothes, AND make cloth napkins? so i will be doing that instead. also redoing our bed/sofa (we have dogs so need washable changeable comfortable sofa covers) and waiting for when everyone starts to throw out all their old sofas/beds/kitchen stuff. already found a NEW teflon/natural frying pan, never used but the handle had broken. hubbby is good with welding so he will re vamp the pan. found shelves for storeage area under our otuside apartment stairs, they just need some extra metal supports. AND i found 15 matching dinner plates that someone had apparently left outdoors for a year, and didnt want them (probably a guy who received a gift and a new girlfriend didnt like them), so now we have a matching set of plates (all my plates and bowls and such are also from others' throwaways so nothing matches, not even a on purpose non matching set which is like junk chic. they just didnt match. at all. so now my kids cant complain we dont have plates . (hubby and i eat out of bowls, thai style, also,no forks, so waiting for someone to throw out some silverwear too). in one more week, every curb in every town/city/moshav/kibbutz will have tons of household items, some brand new, others needing repair, and all waiting to be adopted by us 'curb shoppers'.
even pesach(passover) presents to my kdis this year were made and not bought except for the youngest since she is only now setting up home(studio size).
i am getting ready to crank up my electrical and solar company so it will take me away from being here and being a farmer, but will give us the money to be more efecient farmers in the long run. it's a lot of work but folks have accused me of not letting any weeds grow around me, and i ain't stopping yet. 
