If you live in an area where you experience summer middle-of-the-day scorching temperatures that causes your garden to wither and wilt, you may find that some of your plants may need more watering than others. Reusing plastic water bottles for drip waterers may fit the bill, and do well to provide your plants much needed water. Reusing Plastic Water Bottles in the ...
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6 Simple Tomato Growing Tips for a Great Harvest
If growing tomatoes has been a thorn in your side and it seems like everyone else is able to grow them without even applying any tomato plant care rules, this post is for you! I've been there too, so I'm sharing my best tomato growing tips with you. For years, I would plant my tomato transplants that I bought from the local garden center, along with bags of manure....and ...
How to Grow Lemongrass and Ways to Use It
When it comes to growing herbs, lemongrass may be one of the most rewarding. Its uses span across culinary, medicinal, functional, and even ornamental uses. Here's how to grow lemongrass and some of the ways you can use it. How to Grow Lemongrass Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is a versatile herbaceous plant that can be grown to use fresh or dried for culinary use. ...
How to Have an Awesome Pomegranate Season
Pomegranates are a fantastic addition to a garden or fruit orchard, but not if the season doesn't yield the harvest you want. Here are some tips for planting, growing, and caring for your tree that will be sure to grant you a fabulous pomegranate season! Pomegranate flowers are one of the most beautiful flowers to grace your garden or orchard. Their lovely, abundant, deep ...
How to Prevent Weeds in the Vegetable Garden
Weeds. They are an age-old issue that gardeners have battled with season after season in their vegetable gardens. While this long-time battle respects no gardener, the better we learn how to prevent weeds in the vegetable garden, the better we can focus on growing our own food. Then we can head them off at the pass, creating an easier gardening experience for ourselves. If ...
How to Bottle Your Homemade Fruit Wine {4 Ways}
Making homemade wine is an excellent way to use up a burgeoning fruit harvest, and it's easy! This is step five in my fruit wine making series, and in this step, you will learn 4 different ways to bottle the wine you worked so hard to make. Steps for Bottling Your Homemade Wine Before we get started, you'll want to choose a bottling vessel. There are a few good ...
How To Make And Can Super Easy Salsa
If you love salsa, but don't have all the ingredients needed to make it from all fresh, you will love this recipe! It tastes great, has a lot less prep time, and comes together in a snap! Here's a recipe for making this delicious condiment and instructions on how to can salsa! Part of the goodness of having a tomato harvest is that you can make so many different products ...
How to Make and Can Cherry BBQ Sauce
When you think of cherries, maybe what comes to mind is eating them fresh, in a pie, or even as a jam. All of those are wonderful, but once you discover cherry bbq sauce, you will never forget it! Cherry BBQ Sauce to the Rescue Last year, Todd and I tried peach bbq sauce and fell in love. The marriage of fruity sweetness with the smoky and spicy herbs tasted perfect, ...
How to Make Homemade Strawberry Jam {Safe and Easy}
It's strawberry season and the fruit is fresh, sweet, and delicious! Making wine, syrup or just eaten raw, they are a wonderful summer treat! But don't forget to bring summer to the table with homemade strawberry jam--fill your shelves for the year! Homemade Strawberry Jam is Super Easy Making jam is a great place to start if you are new to canning. It's quick and ...
How to Make a Summer Face Cover + Sewing Pattern
With 2020 having been crazy with illness affecting so many in our country and some states mandating face coverings, sewing this summer face covering will allow you to protect others, be protected (to a certain degree), and wear a mask this summer with all your own style. This post includes the pattern so you can make masks for yourself, your family, or to sell in your ...
How to Make the Best Fermented Garlic Dill Pickles
Making pickles from scratch sounds like a hard thing to do, doesn't it? Wrong! Fermenting is one of the easiest of all food preservation techniques. The summer flavor of these fermented garlic dill pickles recipe will blow your mind--and, they are ready inside a week! Dill pickles have been a favorite of mine ever since I was a little girl. I could eat a whole jar of Del ...
How to Make the Best Salsa {Recipe for Canning}
Summer is a fantastic time for not only eating delicious salsa made from your huge tomato harvest, but for canning salsa too! This is the best salsa recipe for canning, and is wonderful to make for your shelf every year. It has been tested and found to be safe when you follow the given instructions, so you don't have to worry that you'll mess up! Part of the goodness of ...