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Best Chicken Marinade with Horseradish
Today I’m going to show you one of my favorite chicken marinade recipes and also unveil the secret ingredient… horseradish! Horseradish: The Basics In our kitchen garden we have always grown horseradish. It’s a perennial that’s base gets to be about 6 feet wide so be sure to plant it somewhere it will have lots of room. If your thinking of moving or transplanting your horseradish keep in mind that it is a root plant that is difficult to remove. I was in elementary school when we moved our horseradish, I vividly remember when we transplanted it because it took days! So consider before you make any decisions on planting…
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The Best Guide to Choosing the Right Lavender Varieties
There are so many lavender varieties that it can be a little bit overwhelming to navigate. We are here to help you understand which lavenders to choose for your own garden. Lavender Varieties Let’s start with a really quick basic biology lesson. Lavender is part of the lamiaceae (Lay-mi-a-see-aye) family it’s genus is lavandula and there are 47 know species of the lavandula genus. Okey dokey, so what does that mean? It means that all lavenders are part of the mint family and that there are 47 types of lavender to choose from. And they are all different. Lavindin There are also hybrids of each lavender called lavindins or lavender…
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The Best Spinach Artichoke Dip Harvested from Your Garden
Grow your own artichokes and make them into this delectable dish. This Recipe uses fresh grown artichoke and spinach added to creamy savory ingredients that combine into the best appetizer. This is one of my most requested recipes. A few years ago my mother got me a couple of artichoke plants because we love artichokes and we love to grow new things. We didn’t expect them to do as well as they’ve done but they are such a great plant! They are perennial which means they come back every year in the spring and produce artichokes. Plant once, harvest forever. That’s my kind of plant! How to Grow Artichoke Artichokes…
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How to Teach a Child to Garden 3 Best Tips and Tricks
Gardening with a child can be so fun… for them. The mud, the worms, the edible plants, the mud! So. Fun. I do enjoy gardening with my daughter even though it usually means more work. Cleaning said mud, replanting the beans because she decided to walk ON the rows to sing to the plants, potty breaks every ten minutes, and being urgently called away from what I’m doing to come look at a bug or find a worm. It’s all worth it though to be able to teach her the love of gardening and nature. She gets so excited when she pulls vegetables from the garden. And this is probably…
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Best How To Guide to Growing a Salsa Garden
Fresh salsa is the best! And it's so easy to make that growing the ingredients your own back yard just makes sense.
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The Best Edible Lavender Honey Teaspoon Recipe
This Lavender honey teaspoon recipe is tasty and beautiful. The easy thing about them is that you don't have to use a mould if you don't have one.
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How to Host The Best Garden Tea Party
What You’ll Need You don’t need to do anything fancy to have a fun tea party in your own garden. My daughter regularly asks for a tea party and sometimes our tea consists of toast and milk. I mean if you’re doing this on a regular basis with a child then you can’t be baking British tea scones every other day. Although they are so easy to make you probably could do them every other day if you wanted. What you do need is some good recipes, sweet and savory, and some cute teacups. There are even cute paper tea cups that are good to use with little fingers. Garden…
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Pea Fences
Pea Fence BasicsI love the look of cute little pea plants coming up out of the ground. Especially if they are accompanied by some woven or arched pea fences. Every spring, very early spring, I prune our fruit trees and I save the tall straight branches that grow each year. With these branches I build my sweet little pea fences.Build your own!The woven and the arched pea fences together are complimentary to each other and draw the eye. I get so many comments on my pea fences I thought I’d show how easy they are to put togetherThe woven fence starts with the branches stuck into the ground and about…
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Top Four Essential Oil Distillers
I am in search of the best home-use essential oil distiller. Now that may sound like an unnecessary expense in this day and age; why distil your own herbs when you can buy essential oils everywhere? But here are my reasonings: 1. If I make it myself then I know what’s in it, 2. I love a new project, 3. I grow my plants so that I can use them and 4.have you seen the prices of some EOs? They are getting ridiculous. Now, I know that buying a distiller can be pricey. But there are some out there that cost less than a 15ml bottle of Essential Oil and…
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Overwintering Your Lavender Plants
Lavender in the Winter Here in Utah our winters can be cold and dry. And most plants hate that combination but there are some plants that need that hibernation time and some that at least tolerate it. Some Lavender do very well over wintering as long as their roots can stay above -20 degrees Fahrenheit (-29 C) and they get a little water. This year was a very dry winter for our area but our lavender pulled through and is doing fine. Not all Lavender varieties are cold hardy so make sure to choose one that does well in your zone. Believe it or not this bed has 10 healthy little…
