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Beautiful, All Natural Birdseed Wreaths
When I first started making wreaths for the birds, I trialed three recipes I found on-line to see which ones the birds would like the very best. Two of the wreaths were made with suet…
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Potager Palaver #6 (Remembrance Day)
This past week went a bit awry. Hubby had surgery, they had a covid outbreak at the hospital, I caught it while visiting him. He did not and is recovering nicely. Ironic, eh? So, both…
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Make Pho At Home – Easy & Fast
As soon as September arrives, my body seems to instantly go into soup mode. Salads go out the door and soup cravings begin. There is just something so soothing about a nice, bowl of steaming…
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Potager Palaver #5 (Holiday Decor Gardener Style)
This week we got our first snowfall of the year. It started as rain and then turned into heavy, wet snow during the night. It was the wet kind of snow, the kind that can…
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November Garden & Holidays Tips
Updated for 2025. Happy November, garden friends! We have had our first bit of snow. It wasn’t a lot, but some of it is still sticking to the ground. I’m fairly certain the rest will…
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Sunday Potager Palaver #4 (Fall Has Come To The Potager)
Happy Sunday, gardening friends! We are having the most wonderful weather this weekend, perfect for walking in the woods, or the city trails, and finishing up gardening chores. How are you making out with your…
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Prepare Your Garden for Winter: 12 Easy Steps
As October comes to a close, many of us gardeners here in the northern hemisphere are ready to take a bit of a break from our gardens, and the yardwork. Even as a super avid…
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How To Put Your Potager Garden To Bed – 5 Easy Steps
Next year’s fantastic, healthy, organic, kitchen garden begins right here, right now. What you do now to winterise your beds, makes the difference between a great garden year ahead or a frustrating, pest filled one.…
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Sunday Potager Ramblings #3 (Unexpected Hard Frost While We Were Away)
Well, hi! How are you all making out? We are supposed to get snow tomorrow! I am not super stoked about that, hahaha. Yes, it should melt, and we will have some nicer days to…
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4 Ways To Over-Winter Dahlias
I have fallen back in love with dahlias this summer. Don’t get me wrong, I have always liked them and have grown them most every summer since I began my gardening journey, over three decades…
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Rosemary Wreath DIY
This post is a repost from November 28th, 2021 – from The Nitty Gritty Potager This lovely scented rosemary wreath is dead simple to make. Truly! If I can make it, anyone can! I…
Early April In The Potting Shed
Not too much to add this week as the weather just refuses to get spring like. It is so very hard to get into spring mode when it is cold and/or snowy. Sigh. Though, I looked back on last year’s temps and they were similar at the end of March. The first week of April…
Sunday Potager Ramblings #77
This week is all about spring and Easter… what are you all doing for Easter next weekend? I hope you spend it with family and friends. Although Easter is my second favourite holiday (after Thanksgiving), I am doing nothing this year. Have told the family that I am out, not participating… but I am kind…
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