For People Who Like to Sweat, Swear & Do Stuff
GARDENING
Gardening tips, tricks & tutorials from 25 years of experience.
- How to Grow Zucchini: You've Been Doing It All Wrong.
- The English Cottage Garden - Year 6
- How to Grow Tomatoes - in Pots or the Ground
- Growing Your Own Loofah Sponge - Step-by-step
- How to Grow Potatoes - Complete Guide
- Installing an Electric Fence in Your Home Garden.
- From Seed to Sprout: Discover the Art of Seed Starting
- How to Grow Sweet Potatoes aka Kūmara
"To call planting a seed gardening is like calling boiling a pot of water cooking. Gardening is everything that comes before and after the seed is planted."
karen bertelsen
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SUMMER FOOD
- Indian Street Corn. Kicking Your Plain Corn to the Curb.
- How to Make Homemade Hamburgers - My Way
- Roasted Asparagus with Shaved Parmesan
- Classic Caesar Salad. Please Don't Buy That Crap in a Jar
- Guaranteed Crispy, Roasted Potatoes with a Tangy Mustard/Dill Sauce
- The Best Cheese for Burgers. 7 Gooey Options.
- The Summery, Sugary, Lemon Drop Tart
- How to Cook Ribs. A Complete (seriously) Guide.
SUMMER PROJECTS
HOW-TO TUTORIALS
Get them done now so your season doesn't suck later.
BACKYARD HACKS & INSPIRATION
Bad Day? These'll Make You Laugh.
At the very least you'll grin at these stories of my misfortunes.
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About Karen
Recent Stuff
In order of appearance starting with the latest ...
- How to Make a Pumpkin Pie from Scratch with a Real Pumpkin
- A Guide to Pruning Boxwoods - How & When
- What I Did This Week - Soup & Scrap Snacks
- How to Dig, Divide & Store Dahlia Tubers
- An Easy, Creepy, DIY Witches Broom for Halloween.
- Tomato Overload? How to Store, Ripen, & Survive the End-of-Season Harvest
- A Beet & Carrot Update + Fall Harvest
- How to Make Vanilla Extract
- How to Hang an Owl Box
- How to Preserve Moss
- What I Did This Week: Sauce, Pollination & Drugs
- A Green Hairy Balls Flower Update
- Fall Maintenance Of Your Air Conditioner
- This Year's Garden Fails - Were Fantastic
- What I Did This Week - Two Flower Shows
- You Might Have Friggatriskaidekaphobia
- How to Store Your Vegetables Long Term.
- A Simple Guide to Canning Beets
- Would You Choose This or That?
- Can You Grow A Square Cucumber?
The Posts That Made Me Famous
Thanks to Google, Pinterest & Design*Sponge (RIP) these are my most popular posts of all time.
- The Modern Chicken Coop
- How to Make a Tree Stump Table - DIY End Table
- How to Grow Zucchini: You've Been Doing It All Wrong.
- How to Make Homemade Hamburgers - My Way
- The Backyard Ideas Post! 26 Tips & Tricks For Creating A Beautiful Backyard.
- Have a Ryobi Battery That Won't Charge? You Can Fix That.
- Growing Your Own Loofah Sponge - Step-by-step
- How to Build Interior Window Shutters.
- Halloween Craft. The Pumpkin Diorama - An Update.
- How to Make a Pumpkin Pie from Scratch with a Real Pumpkin
- How to Recover a Chair in 5 minutes
- How to Avoid UPS Broker Fees From Online Shopping.