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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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.
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 Carve a Turkey - So It Still Looks Like a Turkey
- The Holiday Gift Guide 2024
- Dried Orange Slices for an Old Fashioned Christmas
- An Update on - The $25 Eyelash Growing Serum
- 26 Advent Calendars for Christmas 2024
- What I Did This Week & What I'm Doing Today
- How to Make a DIY Wood Charcuterie Board
- Bookcase Decorating for Christmas
- 2 Ways Climate Shifted My Garden Routine This Year
- The Last Little Bouquet of Flowers
- Get Your Garlic In The Ground
- The Art of Doing Nothing
- Pot Your Tulips Up Now
- What I Did This Week
- The Christmas Pledge Post for Everyone
- Shrunken Halloween Apple Heads
- What I've Been Doing (Where did I go?) This Week
- Homemade Dog (and Cat!) Treats
- A Recipe for Thanksgiving
- Frost Warning Harvest
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.