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.
- How to Make Authentic Maple Syrup - By Tapping Maple Trees
- How to Lay Sod for a Beautiful Lawn
- How to Replace a Window Screen
- How to Replace a Broken Gas Grill Igniter.
- 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.
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 ...
- A Photo of my Soul (For the Puzzle People)
- The 5 Minute Backyard Hose Hack for Spring 🌷
- The 12 Books That Will Make You A Better Gardener
- The Accidental Sour Cream Artwork
- Kiss Me, I'm Irish. Wait. What? I'm Irish??
- 12 Cleaning Tips You Need To Know
- Things To Read, Watch & Listen to: March 2023
- It Snowed Again
- The 10 Incredible Tips From Chef School
- Life After Sprouting. Seedling Care.
- Your Saturday Puzzle - An Historic Kitchen Garden
- How to Screen Print at Home
- Are You Ready? Your free Stand Mixer Decal is Here.
- It's Puzzle Day
- What You Are About to Read is A True Story
- Grow Lights For Beginners
- An "Out of The Blue" Puzzle
- What I'm Doing This Weekend - With Tips for You to do it Too
- The Stand Mixer Decal Arrived - I Love It
- How to Add a Switch to a Lamp Cord (no wiring)
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.
