A beginner’s garlic harvest is not exactly a huge feat when you look at the scheme of gardeners everywhere, but this was our first time intentionally planting and harvesting garlic. I think that seeing what a beginner’s garlic harvest looks like can be encouraging and motivating to prepare yourself for next summer. This post is […]
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Knowing what tomatoes we grew this year and reflecting on how we felt about each variety at the end of the season helps us know how to plan for next summer’s garden. We grew a total of 22 tomato plants this year, encompassing 8 different varieties. Most of them I grew last year but I
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A summer flower garden, flower garden, big flower garden, and an English flower garden were on the top of my Pinterest search history for months when I knew that I would be buying a house several years ago. I saw many posts with pictures of full gardens with towering flowers, flowers lining rock walls and
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A seashell craft is a great way to use souvenir shells from the beach. If you’ve ever gone to the beach and collected a bucket full of beautiful seashells only to come home and put that bucket away and forget about them, this craft is for you! Every summer we go on vacation with Bennett’s
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How to include a toddler in the kitchen can be a daunting thought. They are typically in the way, messy, and have almost no capability to contribute anything helpful to the project at hand. That is until we change our mindset and the goal of including them. Why should we include a toddler in the
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Mini peanut butter cheesecakes require only a few ingredients and only a half hour of hands-on time to produce a large quantity of a tasty and beautiful treat that will be hard to stop eating. I made these desserts in pie form when I went to a friend’s house, and we loved it so
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Preserving butternut squash when you don’t have a root cellar is a simple process that, although time-consuming, is worth it in the end! I spent a lot of time this summer researching how to preserve, cure, and store butternut squash. Last year we had a poor squash harvest. I thought that I had done a
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I’ve been making sourdough bread for 2 years now. In the realm of sourdough, that is not a lot of time at all. I hesitated for a long time to even try writing this post because I don’t want people to think that I view myself as an expert in sourdough. I don’t. This
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A chocolate chip cookie pie was introduced to me several years ago by a sweet friend. I don’t remember the occasion or who else was there, I just remember loving both the taste and the idea. We enjoy chocolate chip cookies and those are great to make when we have to bring a dessert
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This chicken soup happened by accident in my house. It’s fall and we were in the mood for soup so I was going to make a chicken noodle soup. I diced up the traditional beginnings of most soup, my carrots, celery, and onions, and started sauteing them. Then I thought that I would like
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