Buying gifts for gardeners sounds easy until you actually start thinking about it and looking. There are endless lists recommending gardening mugs, decorative signs, random seed packets and every garden tool imaginable. But if you’re buying for someone who gardens regularly, there’s a good chance they already have most of the basics, and they can
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Every night I make myself a tea. Sometimes it’s a store-bought green tea, but most of the time it’s one of my homemade herbal tea blends. The herbs I choose nightly depend on my mood. If I’m tired I’ll make a restful tea or if I’ve noticed my brain being a little foggy (children –
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Mosquito bites are just part of summer unfortunately. Between gardening, watering the beds in the evening, and spending time outside with the kids, somebody always ends up getting bitten. Even with all the preventative things (DEET spray, long pants, herbs) even my 2 ingredient natural mosquito repellent. But – I have a mosquito bite home
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This is the simplest and easiest natural mosquito repellent recipe I’ve ever used – and it actually works. I’ve tried all the store bought repellents and while those do work, this homemade concoction that only uses 2 ingredients is the only thing I use on myself and my children when I’m focused on mosquito protection.
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We went too many gardening seasons without properly protecting our most vulnerable plants. Strawberries, lettuce, broccoli, and other cool-weather crops were constantly exposed to frost, pests, heavy rain, and sudden temperature swings. After searching for a better solution, we decided to build a hoop house for our raised garden beds. A hoop house is one
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