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Easy Spiced Pickled Plums

Move over plum chutney, there’s another jar that needs to fit on the shelf – or in the fridge. It has something to do with plums and a whole lot of sweet and sour, with a generous amount of exotic...

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How to Choose the Best Garden Shed for Your Backyard

To find out if you could benefit from a garden shed, ask yourself: Do my growing number of garden tools need a new home? There’s your answer. Having clean tools, which all have their place, will...

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Leave The Leaves! 5 Reasons To Never Bag Up Leaves (& What To Do Instead)

It’s never too late to leave the leaves on the ground, right where they belong. That is, unless you’ve already raked them up, stuffed them in bags and sent them wherever the truck takes them – to a...

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9 Fall Jobs In Your No-Dig Garden – Planting, Harvesting, Mulching & More

There’s always a certain sadness when the gardening season comes to an end, but don’t despair quite yet – there are still a number of pleasurable chores to get done in your no-dig garden. Take in a...

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Super Easy DIY Printable Seed Packets – Free PDF Pattern

Saving seeds from your own garden is a valuable skill that every gardener can easily acquire and learn, even in their first growing season. Storing them, however, is a slightly different story. Yet,...

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Why Every Gardener Should Plant Zinnias This Year

When it comes to flowers in the vegetable garden, marigolds, nasturtiums and calendula are the first blossoms that pop into my mind. I can see them vividly, swaying in the breeze, bejeweled with...

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7 Plants That Should Never Grow Near Tomatoes

Every gardener’s dream is to harvest bucket upon bucket full of sun-ripened tomatoes. Even though tomatoes are relatively easy to grow, they can be finicky, which is why there is so much advice about...

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How To Build Your Own Cob Oven – Step-by-Step

Once in your lifetime, you should find the time to build a beautiful cob oven in your backyard. If you can’t find time, then you’ll have to “make time”, because you simply cannot live a full life...

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13 Ways to Celebrate the First Day of Spring – Gardeners’ Edition

When flowers begin to come up from the ground it can only mean one thing, that spring is finally on the way. Time to put the cold and snow of winter behind us, well, almost. Nature gets the final say...

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Pruning Grapevines In Spring & 5 More Vital Spring Jobs

Let me guess, you heard it through the grapevine that spring is a good time to prune your grapevines? I guess they are sending out the same message to us all, to clip, snip and give those overgrown...

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