There is much that home gardeners can do to adapt their gardening practices in the face of the increasing financial obligations to budgeting a household. In this year’s edition of The Prairie Garden, you can learn all about how the three R’s (reduce, reuse & recycle) can help you keep a garden. Learn how to save seeds & store rain water. Find out a way to keep pests like rabbits and deer from ravaging your tender new transplants. Whether you are a newcomer or a veteran gardener, there is much you can do to ensure that the garden you love does not need to go by the wayside. And, of course like always, there are numerous articles of general interest to all who garden during our brief and so sweet summers.