Learn how to grow vegetables from scraps with this easy guide on growing window sill plants from kitchen scraps. Plus discover how to propagate herb cuttings to regrow herbs in both water and dirt indoors. Explore these easy garden hacks to save you time and money, while also feeding your family healthy, delicious produce. Growing Vegetables From Scraps Growing your own food is a rewarding experience. However, planting a garden…
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How to Make Painted Terracotta Pots: Watermelon Painted Planter Ideas
Learn how to make painted terracotta pots with a cute watermelon design for fun painted planter ideas for your outdoor home and garden decor. Painted Planter Ideas Need painted planter ideas? These painted terracotta pots are a fun and fresh way to decorate your clay pots for use on your porch or patio. Discover how to paint terracotta flower pots with a cute watermelon design with this easy craft tutorial…
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How Long Does Produce Last? Plus How to Use Ripe Produce to Make Soap
Wondering how long does produce last? Check out these handy tips and tricks for storing fresh fruits and veggies and learn how long your fresh produce will last with proper storage. Plus discover how to use overripe fruit and vegetables to make homemade cold process soap as a fun twist when produce becomes too ripe or soft to eat. I try to eat healthy, which isn’t cheap. I only go…
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DIY Succulent Container Garden
Learn how to make your own DIY succulent container garden. Not only do these succulent container gardens make a beautiful home accent, but they are also extremely low maintenance! In fact, my succulents tend to fare best when I forget to water them. (Go figure.) So whether you have a green thumb – or a not so green thumb – you’ll love the natural beauty a succulent container garden offers!…
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Homemade Lavender Calendula Coconut Salve Recipe
Learn how to make this Homemade Lavender Calendula Coconut Salve Recipe via Traditional Medicinals! This soothing homemade coconut salve recipe nourishes dry, chapped skin and also works great as a healing lip balm. It’s golden color is enhanced with a pinch of turmeric powder and it smells delicious! The coconut oil adds a sweet smell, and the lavender essential oil adds a nice, relaxing aroma. This homemade lavender calendula coconut salve recipe also makes a great homemade…
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How to Use Neem Oil for Plants as a Natural Pesticide
Do you need a non-toxic natural pesticide alternative for your home and garden? Learn how to use neem oil for plants as a natural non-toxic pesticide! In addition to neem oil’s many medicinal uses – for which I’ve already created multiple recipes for soap, shampoo, salves and lip balm – you can also use neem oil for plants in your garden as a natural broad spectrum pesticide. Neem oil is extracted from the seed of…
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Exfoliating Spring Gardeners Cold Process Soap Recipe
With spring right around the corner now is the perfect time to start making this exfoliating gardeners cold process soap recipe. Make it now and it will be cured and ready right about time to put your first seedlings in the ground. I made this homemade pink and green exfoliating soap using two different batches of cold process soap and three fragrances – Farmer’s Market Baby Bibb fragrance oil, lemongrass…
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How to Create New Succulents from Clippings
My succulent container gardens that I made back in May for Mother’s Day have been, of course, growing. So in order to keep them looking great, I had to trim a few of the taller succulents. I decided it would be great to re-grow these clippings into new plants that I could pot for other areas of my home and office at work that needed a little bit of greenery.…
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DIY Container Succulent Garden – Last Minute Homemade Mother’s Day Gift Idea
Need a last minute homemade Mother’s Day gift idea for mom? Skip the bouquet of flowers and instead gift her with a gorgeous DIY Succulent Container Garden Arrangement! Not only is it inexpensive to make – definitely less than a florist’s flower bouquet – but it will last and last even if Mom doesn’t have a green thumb! To get started you’ll need to purchase an assortment of your favorite…
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DIY Herb Garden Markers – Homemade Mother’s Day Gift Idea
With spring in full force and planting underway, now is the perfect time to whip up some garden markers for your new plants! This herb garden marker is so easy to make with materials you probably already have on hand. Plus, they’re simple enough the kids can craft some for all of mom’s favorite plants as a homemade Mother’s Day gift! Herb Garden Marker Craft Project What you need: popsicle…
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DIY Herb Markers or Garden Stakes for Your Garden
Learn how to make customizable DIY herb markers for your garden. These easy garden markers are made using shrinky dink paper for lasting durability. Simply print out the template then design your own garden stakes to mark your herbs, flower or garden vegetables however you like! DIY Herb Markers Now that the threat of frost is finally over here in Southwestern Virginia, I can start some serious outdoor planting. For…
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How to Grow Garlic
Did you know that one clove or bulb of garlic, when planted, can produce up to an additional twenty cloves? So instead of tossing out your garlic that’s started to sprout, plant it instead and learn how to grow garlic. How to Grow Garlic Learning how to grow garlic is a snap! Simply plant garlic cloves individually in early fall. It doesn’t matter if they’ve already started to sprout. If…
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DIY Spring Gardening Projects, Tips & Tricks
Get started on your spring garden now with this wonderful collection of DIY spring gardening projects, tips and tricks! It’s almost time to start planting here in Southwestern Virginia! Our last danger of frost usually passes towards the end of April, though with the warm weather we’ve had recently it’s hard to believe we could still end up with a snow storm. (And we have before. I remember back in…
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Printable Garden Seed Packets for Saving, Gifting, or Favors
With spring right around the corner you may be thinking about your upcoming gardening project or even easy party or wedding favor ideas for a spring wedding. So I’ve created some fun printable seed packets with matching labels and even red pepper gift wrap to make saving your seeds for the following year, creating seed packets as favors or including seed packets in spring gifts that much easier! Just download…
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How to Grow Stevia to Use as a Natural Sweetener & Sugar Substitute
Learn how to grow stevia from seeds, plants and cuttings to use as a natural sweetener or sugar alternative. Stevia is an herb that has a naturally sweet taste. As it doesn’t affect blood sugar, it makes a wonderful, all natural sugar substitute that is safe for diabetics as well as for use in keto recipes. Growing Stevia as a Natural Sugar Substitute Stevia is a wonderful, natural sugar substitute. Not…
