When I was at the grocery store last week, I picked up some ground beef to make spaghetti sauce. I have been using a Southern-style meat sauce recipe for over a year now that I picked up on allrecipes.com. I started out just following the recipe but now I’ve totally...
Here in South Florida, we're just getting our primary growing season going because the summer fight against the weeds is too much for many gardeners. But as fall approaches in many other parts of the world, gardeners are now asking themselves how they can get at least...
Here in our apartment in Berlin, we currently only have a limited number of plants growing. I've managed to keep a store-bought basil plant alive in our kitchen window for the last few weeks, which feels like a huge accomplishment since it seems that most store-bought...
During the summer, the warm heat outside tends to raise the temperature inside the house. Bugs require a warm place of residence and shelter from the boiling sun, so your home becomes a welcome accommodation for them. Termites, cockroaches, slugs, ants and every other...
Did you know that your herb garden is not only useful for cooking and medicinal reasons? Herbs have many other uses and have long been used in making dyes. You can use them to dye your own fabrics, yarns, and more, as well as use it to make hair dyes. And of course,...
We've all been there. You plant some new flowers or delightful little seedlings in the ground, excited that the growing season is starting out and you'll soon have delicious fruits and vegetables ripening on the vine. You water them and make sure they are tucked into...
Farmers’ Markets are really great places to find local products and support local businesses. Although not everything you find there will be handmade and grown local (unless the market you visit only permits local goods,) you are certain to find a very wide variety of...
Hi, my name is Tiffany...and I am a book junkie. I love books and the fact that you can learn a lifetime worth of information from one book and be able to go back and reference it time after time, generation after generation. Don't get me wrong, I love the Internet...
Have you ever woken up after a great party (say a New Year's Eve celebration) and realized that you were so wrapped up in the partying that you ended up with 4 half-empty bottles of champagne left standing around ? Or have you found a great deal on cheap sparkling...
If your garden is anything like my own, there is always a lot going on in your garden (and in your life) so the likelihood that you will remember how your plants grew or what made your tomatoes really flourish the year before is slim to none. And that's why keeping a...
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