8 Lawn Games to Make For Summer Cookouts
8 Lawn Games to Make For Summer Cookouts Excerpt from DIY Backyard Games by Colleen Pastoor of...
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Category: Home & Garden
The Quest For a Classic Strawberry Jam Recipe
Savor the summer season with this strawberry jam recipe! From strawberry preserves to canning pickles, the new Preserving the Season book will inspire you to start canning.
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Grow Your Own Cocktails & Mocktails
A beverage garden combines two of the things I love most: great drinks and a garden filled with the ingredients to make them. Enjoy a excerpt including recipes from the new Growing Your Own Cocktails, Mocktails, Teas & Infusions Book.
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Earth Day Activities for Kids and Parents
One person can make a difference in helping Mother Earth! Here are three projects for kids and parents can do together to celebrate nature and the beautiful planet we call home.
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How to Compost
Composting makes the world go round. It recycles the nutrients that make plants (and animals) grow, feeds the bugs that keep the soil healthy and is a sustainable, low-cost way of dealing with “rubbish that rots.” And it can be fun too.
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Growing Tomatoes From Seeds
When you start your own tomatoes from seed, you can grow wonderful varieties that you just can’t find already started for you at a garden center.
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10 House Plant Species For Low Light
With limited windowsill space, partial shade plants are an essential indoor plant for every jungalow. Catherine Delvaux, the author of 50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens, shares her top 10 indoor plants that can live in a limited amount of soil and light, grow well, and resist diseases and pests.
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10 Tips for Growing a Bountiful Garden
Gardens are all things to all people – a place for reading, a place for growing tasty vegetables, a place for creating a private paradise, or even a place for breeding chickens. No matter if you have an urban or community garden or a huge yard filled with different plant species, here are 10 tips from our new books that will work for any garden size.
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Six Reasons to Grow Vegetable with Raised Beds
Gardening in raised beds is very efficient and offers plenty of benefits for anyone trying to cut down on the time spent maintaining a vegetable garden. It reduces what can be an overwhelming challenge into easily tackled chunks, saving time and effort.
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How To Create a Wood Pallet Bookshelf
The best thing about creating wood pallet projects is that the possibilities are endless! Indoor, outdoor, large, small, rustic, or finished, with a little sweat equity, as they say, “If you can dream it, you can build it.” This is a great project to use in any room! It will add a lot of character and function at the same time. It’s a decorative way to display and store books in your bedroom, kitchen, or den.
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8 Steps to Start Bullet Journaling (with examples!)
Bullet journaling, aka dot journals or grid notebooks, might be the solution for you to consolidate everything in one place.
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5 Tips for How To Design the Perfect Deck
Adding a new backyard deck is one of the most popular ways to enhance the outdoor living area of your home. For many people, the hardest part of building a new wood deck may be coming up with a design that meets all of your requirements and suits your terrain. Here are 5 tips to help you begin the design process.
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