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Mixing Magic: Peach & Honey Bourbon with Lavender and a Thyme Twist

Looking to elevate your cocktail game? This Honey Peach Bourbon with Lavender and Thyme is a must-try. It’s the perfect blend of sweet, floral, and herbal notes, making it a unique and refreshing drink for any occasion. So when peach season is in full swing, don’t miss the chance top start a few bottles of this delicious treat that will ease your way into fall. Your November self will thank your August self!

DIY: How to add white string lights to your garden with seamless installation and removal!

This is one of my all time favorite DIY projects for the garden. String lights are so popular right now, especially for those who are trying to make their outdoor spaces more beautiful. But oh my have I seen some BAD ideas for how to do this. So many people fill small buckets with concrete only to see the poles and lights fall over in the slightest wind. Or others fill giant buckets with sand, which hold the poles up better, but are kind of ugly and very hard to move. This is an elegant and easy way to get the job done!

On Camomile and Failure…

“I’m just not a gardener…I have a brown thumb.” If you have ever said this, or if you have felt any kind of despair after a failure in the garden, this post is for YOU! All too often people imagine that I must have success with everything plant in my garden and that I don’t fail at anything after all these years. Not true! Failure is a part of gardening and farming every year – and it offers life lessons that are about more than gardening.

12 Days of Gifts for the Gardener in Your Life!

Gifts for your favorite gardener – or if YOU are the gardener, send this list to those who love you and are asking, “What can I get you?” Every year during the holiday, I struggle to think of gifts I might need in general, and then in the spring I think – shoot! I should have asked for garden stuff! Garden gifts may have to sit around for a few months until it’s time to use them, but once you need them, you’ll be so glad you don’t have to run out and buy them.

Beneficial Nematodes: A Powerful Organic Pest Control Method

There’s nothing worse for a gardener than to check on your crop and find it destroyed by pests – sometimes overnight! It’s enough to make an organic gardener run to the nearest store for some chemical pesticide. But wait – there are many other methods available that are safe and organic to help keep pests under control and keep your plants healthy and strong. Beneficial Nematodes are one of the most potent ways to protect your garden.

Saving Bean Seeds for Cooking and Replanting

Did you grow green beans this summer in your garden? Before you yank those spent plants out and throw them on your compost pile, stop! You can save seeds for next year and you won’t have to buy them. And if you tried growing beans for storing and cooking, you’ll need to use this same technique to harvest them. It’s easy. Let’s go!

Ugly Betty Tomato Sauce!

Are you so sad when your garden produces ugly tomatoes? Or you find tomatoes that are split, have spots or bug damage? Don’t despair! Make Ugly Betty Tomato Sauce. It’s delicious – and you’ll never have to waste a tomato again!

Saving All That Zucchini!

When the first few zucchini arrive in your garden, it’s so exciting! The season is new and you are so ready to make all your favorite zucchini recipes. But then, the zucchini keeps coming…and coming…and coming. There are a million jokes in the gardening community about gardeners trying to pawn off extra zucchini on unsuspecting neighbors. After you’ve become tired of all your tried and true zucchini recipes, what do you do with all the zucchini?

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