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Gardening Humor

A Little Gardening Help?

I remember the first time someone ever asked me for gardening help. “Who, me?” I thought. I still considered myself a black thumb at that point, so I was excited when this neighbor thought my garden was so pretty that they wanted me to help them set up their vegetable garden, and I wanted to […]

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Gardening Humor

The Art of Productive Procrastination in the Garden

Do you ever feel like where you start on a garden project, and where you end, are never in the same place? And probably not even the same project? And maybe it’s by design because you’ve been putting off that first thing for too long? It’s an art I choose to call productive procrastination. And […]

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Food Preservation

The Easiest Method for Freezing Fresh Apples for Baking

Hooray! You Pumpkin-Spice-latte’d your way through your own apple trees and/or every apple orchard in town and found yourself barricaded in your kitchen with no less than 20 pounds of apples. You already baked everything in your recipe book and your family can’t eat another apple pie, crumble, sauce, or turnover.

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Buyers Guides

What to Buy and How to Build a Subterranean Greenhouse to Grow All Year

Subterranean greenhouse, underground greenhouse, deep winter greenhouse, or Walipini. If you want to grow vegetables throughout the year, this might be your go-to. “Walipini” means, “place of warmth” and comes from the indigenous Aymara people in the Altiplano regions of Peru and Bolivia. This in-ground greenhouse allows farmers to grow despite harsh climate conditions and […]

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Joy of Gardening

Are You Harvesting Garlic Scapes Wrong?

As a lover of garlic scapes—the more-delicious alternative to asparagus—I could hardly believe it when I read today’s piece, Scaping Lessons, and learned there are people on this planet that don’t love them. Sure, I’ve heard of people who don’t know what they are or have never tried them before, but people who don’t like […]

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Pests & Diseases

Yellow Leaves on Tomato Plants? 5 Reasons and Remedies

Grocery store tomatoes don’t stand a chance compared to the fresh homegrown variety. From cherry tomatoes grown in containers to heirloom and hybrid beefsteak varieties, nothing beats a tomato grown at home. That is unless you’re unlucky and find yellowing leaves on your tomato plants.

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Gardening Poems

A Gardening Poem About Life and Death

Today’s gardening poem about the rich diversity of a garden, “with plants of a hundred families, in the space between the trees,” is a lovely reminder of life and death, and how we witness it every year through our garden. Each Spring, we plant seeds of life and hope into the earth. We plant seeds […]

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Animals in the Garden

Pros and Cons of Owning Chickens for Your Backyard Garden

Does the thought of backyard chickens appeal to you? City dwellers interested in country living or those tired of the rising cost of eggs at the grocery store might consider it. However, seeing how quirky and adorable they are, it’s easy to forget to weigh the pros and cons of chickens before bringing them home. […]

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Easy Healthy Recipes

A Maple Pecan Sweet Potato Pie Recipe to Embrace Fall

Oh boy, gather ’round folks, because I’m about to spill the beans (or should I say, the sweet potatoes?) on my absolute favorite sweet potato pie recipe. Hold onto your aprons, because this isn’t just any old sweet potato pie. This is the pie that made my Uncle Bob, who swears he hates all things […]

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Food Preservation

5 Easy Ways to Preserve Cabbage from Your Garden

Cabbage is pretty easy to grow, especially if you live in a cooler climate. One only needs to think of a traditional Irish garden to understand how much cabbage you can grow if you live in areas with shorter summers and long temperate spells with high temperatures in the mid-60s. That means it’s entirely possible […]

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