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10 Steps for Creating Better Garden Soil You don’t have to accept the way your soil is right now. Creating the best garden soil takes some work and a plan, but it can drastically change the output of your vegetable garden. What you start with isn’t what you need to …

Creative Rain Gutter Planter Ideas To Spruce Up Your Garden You may be wondering why bother with a rain gutter garden? Well one reason is that gutter gardens take advantage of the vertical spaces around your home to grow flowers, edibles and create a stylish space divider or privacy screen …

9 Ways to Grow More Food Without Spending Money Gardening saves you money and produces healthy food for your family. The more food you grow, the more money you save, but how can you grow more food without spending more money? If you have to invest more money into your …

Keep The Bugs Away With These Homemade Bug Sprays Spending time outside is a favorite pastime, but dealing with bugs that won’t leave you alone is fun for no one. Everyone needs to have a recipe or two for homemade bug sprays that they can keep in diaper bags or …

20+ Awesome Camping Recipes Whether you prepare your meals beforehand or start from scratch on site, camping and survival food no longer have to be lame. These are killer recipes that are sure to please on your next camping trip. Plus, if you can master camp fire cooking,you will be …

14 Plants that Naturally Repel Fleas and Other Insects Are you sick of dealing with fleas and insects? Unfortunately, your pets can gather fleas in all seasons, including winter. Insect and flea problems exist year-round, and it’s a frustrating problem to have. Plants are a powerful way to repel fleas …

Survival Tips: How to Find drinking Water Humans can survive almost a week without food, but 72 hours without water leaves a human knocking on death’s door. Water is key to survival in any disaster scenario, and it should come before everything else. Water makes up about 60% of your body, flushes …

The Everlasting Garden: 10 Fruits and Vegetables You Can Plant Once and Enjoy Forever! Imagine a garden that once established, required no tilling or planting, but provided years and years of tasty and bountiful crops to harvest throughout the growing season. Sound too good to be true? It is very possible, …

Chicken Peri Peri Recipe Ingredients 1 kg Chicken 100 ml Extra Virgin olive oil 10 – 13 garlic cloves 5 ripe Serrano chillies 10- 12 African devil red chillies 3 Bay leaves 1 tsp smoked paprika Sea salt as required 1 lemon juice Parsley 3-4 charcoal chunks 1 tbsp oil …

How To Prepare Your Garden for Winter The term “Fall gardening” doesn’t mean sitting in a lawn chair and watching the stalks of your spent vegetable plants tip over. In fact, as the summer gardening season comes to a close, the work in your garden is far from over. The …

Storing Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs It’s harvest time! For many home gardeners that means a beautiful bounty of home-grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, while others prefer to take advantage of the work of others by finding the best bargains on fresh items at the local farmer’s market or grocery store. …

How to Re-Make Sweat Pants Sunny days and warmer temperatures are here for a lot of us. While you switch over your clothes from winter sweaters and long-johns to shorts and summer dresses, make sure not to though those old beloved sweat pants away quite yet. Here is a great DIY …