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6 Easy Fruits to Grow in Pots Inside Your Home
When we were buying our first house, we shopped a lot. Our realtor must have been exhausted by us. On one occasion, we saw a home that opened up to …
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Berries: Sweet Soil Secrets
Few things taste like summer more than a handful of sun-warmed berries. Whether it’s strawberries dipped straight from the patch, raspberries tumbling into morning yogurt, or blueberries staining your fingers, …
Buckets, Brambles, and Purple-Stained Smiles
When I was about 5-years old, Summer had a very specific soundtrack: cicadas buzzing, sneakers crunching gravel and a gaggle of kids loudly debating who had found the biggest blackberry. …
Planning a Backyard Orchard You Can Harvest Year-Round
Whether spring or fall, both are great times to start your backyard orchard! If you've been following along for some time, you know that when we bought our house, it …
The Surprise Potato
He opened his chubby fist and showed me what he had found: a tiny, grubby potato no bigger than a cherry. I smiled and told him what it was, promising …
A Portrait of a Garden
Lightly the fine brush traces, faintly the supple hairs draw. The upturned leaves, sketched in a freehand style, coil like wisps of smoke about the stems. Yellow heads peak behind …
Picking Blackberries to Your Heart’s Content
I'd be lying if I said this one didn't make me a little weepy. Here I was just minding my own business, paging through GreenPrints, when I stumbled upon this …
Garden-to-Glass Cocktails
There was no small push by our team to delve into the wild world of "garden-to-glass" cocktails. Can you blame them?
After all, fennel-infused cocktails are all the rage now, so …
The Mystical Garden Chronicles
One year, I am sorry to report, the females in my family backed into the sides of our garage on three separate occasions, causing damage not only to car doors …
Root Pruning Secrets to Convert Unruly Blackberry Plants into Productive Bushes
Let’s face it – blackberry plants have commitment issues. Give them an inch, and they’ll take over your entire yard! One minute you’re dreaming of summer cobblers, and the next …
