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Easy Ways to Start Growing Vegetables from Scraps
I admit it, I’m a scrapper. I love growing vegetables from scraps. It doesn’t always work, but when it does you get to give yourself a little pat on the ... Read More
5 Benefits of Fermenting Compost for Your Garden
Compost, that black gold of the garden, has a very intriguing inner life. Bacteria, fungi, microorganisms, chemical reactions, and fascinating transformations are all present in the midst of our compost ... Read More
How to Decorate Jam Jars for Holiday Gift Giving
Throughout the year, as different fruits come into season, I make a fair share of jams—strawberry, peach, blueberry, blackberry, and so on. There are several reasons I enjoy doing this, ... Read More
How to Grow Grafted Fruit Trees to Increase Variety in Your Garden
Before I get into all the reasons grafted fruit trees are a good option for your garden, I'd like to talk about comic books. In the late 1970s, DC Comics ... Read More
5 of the Quickest Vegetables to Grow All Year Round
I admit that subtitle is a bit misleading. No matter how much of a hurry you might be in, the magic of nature takes time. So “hurry” is pretty relative ... Read More
12 Tips for Curing Garlic So It Lasts Longer
Okay. Maybe not forever and ever. Still, curing garlic does make it last a lot longer. And as far as I'm concerned, you can never have too much garlic on ... Read More
How to Make Natural Compost from Everyday Food Waste
Did you know that, according to the EPA, the United States produces more than 42 million tons of food waste every year? That's 210 cruise ships filled top to bottom, ... Read More
15 Long Lasting Root Cellar Vegetables and Fruits
There's a true joy in going to the garden and picking some ripe eggplant, tomatoes, and herbs for a late summer dinner. I love walking friends through my garden in ... Read More
5 Hacks for Watering a Container Garden
There's probably not a gardener among us who doesn't have a few stories of the zucchini they overwatered or the tomatoes that cracked because they let it dry too much ... Read More
Canning Cranberry Sauce: How to Get Perfect Results Every Time
I feel like maybe writing about canning cranberry sauce is tricky territory. As much as we all may enjoy homemade goodies, there's something about that tin can of jellied cranberry ... Read More