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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.
🎃☕️IT'S AUTUMN🍁🍂
FALL FOOD
- Leek Quiche with Goat Cheese
- 7 FALL SOUPS TO KEEP THE CHILL OFF
- How to Make Delicious Turkey Pot Pie
- THE BEST GRILLED CHEESE YOU'LL EVER EAT.
- German Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage Recipe. Like Oma used to make.
- How to Make a Pumpkin Pie from Scratch with a Real Pumpkin
- Old Fashioned Baked Beans From Scratch
- CHEESECAKE IN AN INSTANT POT? UM, O.K.
FALL PROJECTS
HOW-TO TUTORIALS
Get them done now so your season doesn't suck later.
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."
karen bertelsen
See more Garden Posts ➡️
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
Recent Stuff
In order of appearance starting with the latest ...
- My 10 Best Thanksgiving Tips
- How to Grow Garlic. {Now's the time to plant!}
- A Vintage Tomato Canning Label (free download)
- I Don't Want to Admit it But This is Coming
- What My Weekend Looks Like
- How Showering is Taking Years Off of Your Life
- The September Vegetable Garden - Harvesting & Storing
- The English Cottage Garden Fall (Year 6)
- Death by Tomato - The Varieties
- What to Do With all the Tomatoes
- The Salt & Pepper Rule
- I Don't Think You Know This
- You're Filling Your Kong Wrong
- Red, White & Blue - The Puzzle
- A Cast Iron Tub Full of Flowers
- Wild Blueberry Banana Bread
- How to Hang an Owl Box. Again.
- The *I Hated Going To School* Puzzle
- 46 Summer Memories I Made
- Egg Carton Tomatoes - The Perfect Gift
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.