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How to Grow Watermelon
How to Grow Watermelon**Watermelons are surprisingly easy to grow as long as the plants have plenty of room to spread, good drainage, lots of sunlight, and a sufficiently long growing season....
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Spring in Abundance: A Picture Tour of My Garden
Spring in Abundance**This is my first large garden at my first real homestead. I have been super busy getting my compost ready, making raised beds, and lovingly raising tons of plants from seed. So...
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10 Reasons Why I Love Watering My Garden By Hand
When I was a kid, my family had a large garden full of vegetables. It was one of the kids’ chores to water the garden daily, and I still remember how my watering chore went: I got up from the couch,...
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DIY Garden Trellis
DIY Garden Trellis (on a Budget!)Do you have a gardening budget? I try very hard to keep true to a tight gardening budget. I know that I am so in love with gardening that if I’m not careful, I could...
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Cover Crops in the Garden
Cover Crops in the GardenDid you know that many cover crops that are meant for winter garden protection are planted beginning in August? Yep. It’s time to start planning out what cover crop seeds you...
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How to Recover from a Poor Gardening Season
How to Recover from a Poor Gardening SeasonRemember my ‘Spring in Abundance‘ post? The one where I gushed about my beautiful garden? Well, things can sure change quickly. This has been a frustrating...
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High Quality Seed Companies for the Organic Gardener
High Quality Seed Companies for the Organic GardenerYou know you’re an obsessed gardener when….**The holidays are barely over and you immediately start researching your future garden. Yep, it’s time to...
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How to Properly Test Your Soil
How to Properly Test Your SoilLast fall, I decided that it was time to expand my gardening knowledge by taking a local gardening class at nearby Clemson University. Did you know that some of the bigger...
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How to Plan Your Garden
Confession: I am a planner-person. I am most happy when I can plan out my day/week/month/year and then follow through with those plans/goals. I am pretty sure that’s one of the reasons why I love...
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How to Grow Saffron
Welcome to my Spice Series!This is about How to Grow Saffron. Click here to learn more about saffron. Click here to see the rest of my Spice Series. Enjoy!How to Grow SaffronSaffron is the world’s most...
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How to Preserve Green Beans (4 ways)
How to Preserve Green Beans (4 ways)How does your garden grow? Unlike last year’s fiasco, I have a lovely thriving garden this year. True, my tomatoes and peppers did not grow past seedlings (possibly...
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8 Lessons from My Summer Garden
This year, my garden was much MUCH better. Unlike last year’s fiasco. Thank goodness. However, even though this year’s harvest was a happy thing, I still learned plenty of lessons from my summer...
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6 Gift Ideas for Gardeners
It’s that time of year. Time to think about clever, cute, and/or funny gift ideas for your loved ones (or for yourself!). Here is a list of 6 gift ideas for gardeners. I tried to focus on just a few...
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10 Plants for Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden
I love winter. It’s the best season for getting prepared for a new gardening season. I love to cuddle up by a fire, drink some tasty hot chocolate, drool over my favorite gardening catalogs, and plan...
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10 Plants for Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden
I love winter. It’s the best season for getting prepared for a new gardening season. I love to cuddle up by a fire, drink some tasty hot chocolate, drool over my favorite gardening catalogs, and plan...
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How to Grow Cumin
How to Grow Cumin Let’s talk about how to grow cumin. In America, cumin is not grown in many home gardens, possibly because of two factors: (1) A belief that it cannot be grown outside tropical areas....
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Finding Joy in the Garden in Winter
Finding Joy in the Garden in the Dead of Winter Let’s talk about ways for finding joy in the garden in winter. From a gardener’s perspective: what is your favorite season? If I had to number the...
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How to Deal with Problems Growing Root Vegetables
Hi, my name is Cris, and I am ready to admit that I am having problems growing root vegetables… I think one of the hardest things to deal with as an avid gardener is continual failure in the garden...
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Early Spring Gardening Chores
Let’s talk about early spring gardening chores. There’s plenty of things you can do to prepare your garden for healthy plants! I have lived in cold, northern climates and warm, southern climates. And...
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The Best Edible Flowers for a Vegetable Garden
This is a list of the best edible flowers for a vegetable garden. What does that mean? This list of edible flowers all have practical benefits for your vegetables and fruits, whether as companion...
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