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    Zucchini Flower Recipes – 20 Reasons To Pick Squash Blossoms

    Zucchini plants are a staple in almost every vegetable garden. Famous for being highly productive, you’ll often end up with more zucchini than you can handle come the height of summer. (In which case you’ll want to look at our ideas for preserving your zucchini harvest for the long term.) But...
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    Brandied Cherries Recipe – With (or Without) Syrup

    Mouthwateringly ripe cherries of the red or black kind hang but once a year on the most beloved trees. Picking a bowlful (one for the bowl, one for the mouth) or eating them without restraint straight from the tree is one easy option for taking care of a few, no matter what your age. When...
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    Easy Refrigerator Bread & Butter Pickles

    When cucumbers are in season, you’ve got to make at least one kind of pickle. Dill, garlic, 5-minute fridge pickles, or even bread and butter pickles if you are so inclined. My mom absolutely loves bread and butter pickles, but as a child, I didn’t care for a single bite. They were too sour and...
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    24 Things To Do With a Glut of Plums

    If you are lucky enough to have a productive plum tree in your garden producing buckets full of plums, then you may be familiar with the overwhelming task of harvesting and processing all of your fruit. If you have a heavily laden plum tree, the fruiting can be so prolific that branches can...
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    Eating Pea Leaves – 2 Garden Fresh Recipes to Try Out

    Did you know there are several fantastic reasons for growing peas in your garden? Spoiler alert – you don’t have to grow them for the sheer enjoyment of shelling peas alone. The leaves, shoots and flowers of the pea plant are all edible too. Why Grow Peas? Freshly shelled garden peas, destined...
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    Easy Spiced Pickled Plums

    Move over plum chutney, there’s another jar that needs to fit on the shelf – or in the fridge. It has something to do with plums and a whole lot of sweet and sour, with a generous amount of exotic spices tossed in for good measure. In late summer and early fall when plums are in season, it’s...
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    Turn Leftover Corn Cobs into Corn Broth

    I love sweetcorn season! Nothing says summer like golden ears of corn dripping with butter, salt and pepper, served so piping hot you burn your fingers trying to pick them up. Sweetcorn aficionados always have their favorite local stand they buy corn from. (Growing up, ours was Bishops, and...
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    9 Delicious Ways to Eat Watermelon Rinds

    Watermelon – the official fruit of summer picnics and barbecues everywhere. It’s hard to imagine a picnic table piled high with hotdogs, hamburgers, sweet corn, macaroni and potato salads without bright red triangles of watermelon as well. When the party is over, and you’re left with lots of...
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    Learn to Make Kombucha – It’s Easy

    Kombucha is gaining popularity as a drink of choice not only for its delicious taste, but its health benefits too. Kombucha is chock full of probiotics and antioxidants. Many people believe that drinking kombucha daily helps with gastrointestinal issues, inflammation, and can give a boost of...
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    Cowboy Candy – the Best Thing to Do With Homegrown Jalapeños

    When it comes to tomatoes and pepper plants, I’m always feeding an army, even though there isn’t an army in sight. I assume the worst and end up planting way more than I need. So right about now, I’m drowning in jalapeños, which is a weird thing to be drowning in. Perhaps that’s why my eyes...
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    10 Creative Things You Can Do With a Tree Stump

    There’s something uniquely special about trees. Trees give us cool shade in summertime and spectacular color in fall. They help take the dullness out of the winter landscape and are among the first plants to signal spring is on its way. But more than this, the slow but steady growth of trees...
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    15 Thrillers, Fillers & Spillers For Stunning Container Flower Displays

    Hanging baskets, window boxes, railing planters, and a healthy number of terracotta pots are just the thing to elevate a monotone porch or patio into a heavenly place filled with delightful sights and scents. Mixing flowers in a container is its own kind of art form, an interesting intersection...
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    10 Beautiful DIY Garden Paths For Your Backyard

    Where there are multiple garden path ideas, there’s bound to be at least one beautiful garden walkway that can be yours for the DIY-ing. All it takes to create a garden path are materials, hands-on labor, time and a bit of creativity. Why Create a Garden Path? Some winters, when this path gets...
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    How to Choose the Best Garden Shed for Your Backyard

    To find out if you could benefit from a garden shed, ask yourself: Do my growing number of garden tools need a new home? There’s your answer. Having clean tools, which all have their place, will elevate these feelings of contentment, too. Let’s get practical for a moment. Garden tools take up...
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    The 7 Best Online Permaculture Courses You Can Take Today

    The end of gardening season can be a time for contemplation and indoor tasks. You may find yourself with more time to focus on the educational aspects of growing plants. This makes fall and winter the perfect time to take an online permaculture course. What is Permaculture? Permaculture—a...
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    I Compared Stone vs. Wood Mulch – Here’s Why I Chose Stone

    Mulching flower beds is a sure sign that warmer weather has arrived each spring. Suddenly, everywhere you look, it’s nothing but flower beds sporting a fresh layer of dark brown mulch. But this essential practice is about more than keeping up appearances. Putting down mulch helps retain...
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    I’m Switching to Raised Beds with Vego Garden – Set Up & First Impressions

    I did not receive these raised beds for free from Vego Garden. I bought them myself because, after several weeks of research, they were the brand I liked most. I’m writing this up as a courtesy to our readers who asked which raised beds I chose and why. Rural Sprout is an Amazon affiliate, so we...
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    8 Landscaping Trends that Make Your Home Look Dated

    When was the last time you took a good look at your landscaping? If it’s been a few years, you might be wondering how well your landscaping has aged. Here are eight landscaping features that have fallen by the wayside. These former trends now make your home look dated and old-fashioned. Is it...
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    What I Wish I Knew Before Buying & Setting Up 9 Vego Garden Raised Beds

    Last fall, after another dismal harvest, I made the decision to switch to raised beds. I was fed up with fighting against the abysmally poor soil in our area year after year. After considering my options for building vs. buying raised beds, I chose to go with these Vego Garden 9-in-1 modular...
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    The Best Way to Water Raised Beds (& it’s Hands-free)

    Back in the late 90s there was a diaper commercial that said, “Live and learn, and get new Brand of Diapers.” This is how it is with watering raised beds. There’s an idea of how it’s going to be, and then there’s the reality. Over the years, I’ve given up on that ideal and found the perfect way...

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