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Printable Strawberry Recipe Card

April 18, 2022 By Karen Creel

Printable Strawberry Recipe Card

If you have read my previous post Tips on Growing Strawberries, you know I love strawberries!  Strawberry jam, strawberry smoothies, strawberry shortcake!  And where am I going to keep all those great strawberry recipes?  I have created a  downloadable, printable strawberry recipe page for your recipe book.  I prefer to keep mine in a binder,… 

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Tips for Growing Strawberries

March 24, 2022 By Karen Creel

Plant strawberries at the same depth as the pot they came in.

I love fresh strawberries from the garden as a snack, or to put in my salad.  Strawberry shortcake, strawberry shakes, and oh so many uses for strawberries.   Follow these simple tips for growing strawberries, and you’ll be eating fresh strawberries in no time.  Strawberries fresh from the garden taste much better than the ones you… 

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How to Grow Peas

March 19, 2022 By Karen Creel

Sugar snap peas

Peas thrive in cool weather, and one of the first vegetables you can sow outdoors in early spring.  If you haven’t grown peas in your garden before you are in for a treat.  My garden wouldn’t be complete without sugar snap peas growing on the trellis in my raised bed. If the weather co-operates,  I… 

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What a Seed Packet Can Tell You

February 9, 2022 By Karen Creel

Seed packets provide a wealth of information on growing plants

What can you learn about growing vegetables from a seed packet? In the garden classes I teach,  I’m often asked “how do you know when you can plant a certain vegetable in the garden and should I plant the seed directly in the garden, or should it be started indoors?”  You can spend a lot… 

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Thrift Shop Seed Packet Makeover

January 25, 2022 By Karen Creel

Thrift store letter holder repurposed to hold seed packets.

I dropped a few things off at our local thrift store last week.   I try to drop them off at the desk and walk straight back out.  That’s because my goal is to clean out, instead of bring in!.  What’s my rule?  Take 5 things to the thrift store, and you can bring one back… 

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Planning Your Garden Projects

January 12, 2022 By Karen Creel

Plan your garden project on paper

January is all about garden planning.  If you are like me, you have all sorts of ideas and projects in your head that you want for your garden.  Sometimes they just stay there….in your head.  You get caught up in all the things you want, how much will it cost, how do I get started,… 

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Holiday Fragrance

November 22, 2021 By Karen Creel

I start my Christmas decorating after Thanksgiving, and love to have the fragrance of the Holiday to fill the air.  Add a little Christmas music, and let the decorating begin!   This holiday fragrance potpourri, simmered on the stove, makes the house smell wonderful.  You can make a large batch, and package some to place in… 

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Herbal Dream Pillows

October 25, 2021 By Karen Creel

Herbal Dream Pillows

According to Jim Long in his book “Making Herbal Dream Pillows”, dream pillows were once called comfort pillows, and were used in sickrooms to “ease the nightmares that may come with medicine, and the smell of illness.” Little herbal dream pillows were made with calming herbs such as lavender to help ease the sleep of… 

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Tips on Growing Garlic

October 1, 2021 By Karen Creel

Garlic is easy to grow in the home garden

I’ve decided to use one of my raised beds to grow garlic this fall.  Since this is my first time growing garlic, we’ll learn together if you’ve never grown it either.  Planting garlic in one of your beds is a commitment to space because garlic planted in the fall will be harvested in the summer…. 

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Seed Saving Packets

September 7, 2021 By Karen Creel

Seed packets for saving seeds

Saving your seeds for next years garden is a great way to save money, and share your garden with friends.  I’ve created these seed packet templates for you to use.   I planted zinnias this year from seeds that I purchased from Botanical Interest.  They did great in our hot humid summer weather. I picked this… 

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