For People Who Like to Sweat, Swear & Do Stuff
From how to make your own Starbucks Latte to building a chicken coop, browse hundreds of DIY tutorials and How-To Guides covering Food, Garden and Home projects you had no idea you needed to do.
SPRING PROJECTS
HOW-TO TUTORIALS
Get them done now so your season doesn't suck later.
- Spray Painting a Potting Shed
- Glowing Orb Landscape Lights. A 5 minute, $5 DIY.
- How to Fix Loose Gutters | 3 Different Ways.
- Installing Drip Irrigation in Your Home Garden.
- How to Maintain Your Garden Tools
- How to Lay Sod for a Beautiful Lawn
- How to Replace a Window Screen
- How to Replace a Broken Gas Grill Igniter.
SPRING GARDENING
How to start your very first full vegetable garden or learn how to successfully grow potatoes, tomatoes, asparagus and so much more.
- How to Plant Asparagus. Now's the Time!
- How to Grow Sweet Potatoes aka Kūmara
- Growing Your Own Loofah Sponge - Step-by-step
- How to Grow Potatoes. Chitting, Planting, Harvesting.
- How to Grow Tomatoes - in Pots or the Ground
- The 25 Varieties of Dahlias For 2021
- From Seed to Sprout: Discover the Art of Seed Starting
- The English Cottage Garden Spring
"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."
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🌼 IT'S SPRING 🌼
SPRING EATS
- Rhubarb Fizz. A Bursting with Bubbles Summertime Drink.
- Homemade Fruit Roll Ups
- How to Make Strawberry Jam
- Traditional Hand Stirred Maple Cream aka Maple Butter
- Apple Fennel Salad with Korean Mint
- Make an Easy Pavlova with a Raspberry Compote.
- It's The 2 Week Window For Strawberry Rhubarb Pie.
- Rhubarb Crisp. A Recipe for Summer's Sweet Tart Delight.
BACKYARD HACKS & INSPIRATION
Bad Day? These'll Make You Laugh.
At the very least you'll grin at these stories of my misfortunes.
See more Wintery Recipes ➡️
About Karen
My name is Karen Bertelsen and I was a television host. In Canada. Which means in terms of notoriety and wealth, I was somewhere on par with the manager of a Sunset Tan in Wisconsin.
I quit television to start a blog with the goal that I could make my living through blogging and never have to host a television show again. And it’s worked out. I’m making a living blogging. If you’re curious, this is how I do that.
So I’m doing this in reverse basically. I’m the only blogger who is trying to NOT get a TV show.
Recent Stuff
In order of appearance starting with the latest ...
- This Was a Fun Surprise
- The 5 Summer Projects That Will Make Your Summer Epic
- Rhubarb Crisp. A Recipe for Summer's Sweet Tart Delight.
- Things To Read, Watch & Listen to: May 2023
- Puzzled About Berry Season
- I Know You do Dumb Things Like This too
- Aberfoyle Antique Market Spring 2023
- Antique Show Finds Sneak Peak
- The Season of Liquified Cucumbers & Bad Hair Is Here
- We Don't Know How to Store Bread Anymore - Here's How
- The 18 Dahlia Varieties I'm Growing
- Dahlia Variety Puzzle
- I Went to a Mall For the First Time in 10 Years
- If You're a Gravy Person But Also a Lazy Person - Sour Cream Pan Sauce
- Vegetable Gardening Ideas for May
- I Started Seeds 8 Weeks Ago - This is What they Look Like Now
- My Curious Relationship with Jerry Springer
- I Didn't Even Know I *Had* A Salt & Pepper Collection
- The #1 Way to Use Up Your Soft, Sprouting Potatoes
- The Cherry Blossoms are in Bloom
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
- You've Been Growing Your Zucchini Plants 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.
