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A little garden help, a little home comfort, all in one spot. Simple posts that make planting easier and decorating feel less stressful.
A house so narrow that a bowling ball could roll directly from the front door to the back porch. Its
I love how celosia changes a garden the moment it goes in the ground. Some varieties look like little flames.
I planted two tomato seedlings six inches apart one May, and by August they looked nothing alike. One was a
A shower curtain and a liner look almost the same at first glance. I get asked about the difference all
Spider plant babies start growing roots while they are still attached to the mother plant. You just have to know
My first peony sat in the ground for two years without a single bloom, and I nearly gave up on
A dead basil plant typically results from a mismatch between its needs and environment, not bad luck. Fresh herbs year-round
Onion seeds are often dead within a year. Tomato seeds can still sprout after a decade in the same drawer.
Stand in the produce aisle long enough, and I find that the sheer number of lettuce varieties can quickly blur
Few flowers give a gardener as quick a reward as zinnias do. In my own beds, the first zinnia blooms
That piece of ginger in your fridge’s crisper can actually sprout into a real plant. Learning how to plant ginger
My first sunflower patch grew from three leftover seed packets and zero expectations. I stuck them along a fence, walked