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Homegrown Vegetables
All you need to know to grow food in your own backyard garden
Cut Flower Garden
How to grow flowers from seed and arrange those gorgeous blooms
Using the Harvest
Cooking from scratch, preserving food, drying herbs and more
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Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte with Simple Ingredients
It’s not fall without a pumpkin spice latte. Hot coffee with warming spices and sweet frothy milk. Fully customizable and made with homemade ingredients.
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Making a Natural Winter Planter with Foraged Evergreens
Using evergreen boughs and wintry garden elements, let’s make a winter planter together. Includes tips for making evergreens last all winter.
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How to Roast a Pumpkin and Make Pumpkin Puree
Roast a pumpkin for homemade pumpkin puree to use in all kinds of recipes. It’s easy to make pumpkin puree and stores well in the freezer.
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Are Heirloom Seeds Actually Better than Hybrid Seeds?
Navigating the different types of seeds—heirloom seeds, hybrid seeds, open-pollinated seeds, GMO seeds, F1 hybrid seeds—and deciding which to grow.
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How to Overwinter Dahlia Tubers to Grow Next Year
Learn how to dig up, clean, and store dahlia tubers safely over winter to grow them again next summer.
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How to Divide Dahlia Tubers to Get More Plants
Learn how to divide dahlia clumps into dahlia tubers to propagate your dahlia plants and have more flowers next year.
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