Halloween is around the corner and people are starting to decorate with the many types of pumpkins available at the farmer's market. The past 10 years have seen an explosion of all kinds of colors, sizes, and shapes of pumpkins, but I am in love with a diminutive one, which actually isn't a real pumpkin, …
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What do you do with containers on your front porch or deck once you have yanked out those sorry-looking frost-killed petunias? Segue into the holiday season with beautiful fall/winter containers using "yard" material. Forage for material from your property on or around your home. Snips in hand, I venture into roadside edges and woods and …
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Having Thanksgiving at your house? Whipping up a table centerpiece now will save you a lot of time on Thanksgiving Day. Living on a pretty large property (2 acres), is a lot of work with weeding, pruning, mulching, etc. The chores are endless. But it is all worth it when I look out my window …
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Pumpkin on a Stick is actually an eggplant but looks like tiny dancing pumpkins. Easy to grow, you can use them in stir fry dishes or dry for fall arrangements.
