Category: DIY
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Gazania (Treasure) Flowers Care Information
Growing Gazania Flowers is always am amazing experience because they are so beautiful. Watching all of the colors unfold is incredible. When we first started growing Gazania Flowers we had no information to go off of on how to grow them. The package they came in only had to pictures on it for care and…
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I Tested 3 Plant Self Watering Systems for 7 Weeks.
We have some vacations planned for the summer and we will be away for 2 weeks or longer. We needed a way to water our plants while we are away and we don’t know anyone who can come over and water them for us. Our sitting area also gets a lot of sun and our…
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How to Grow a Lemon Tree from Seed
Our children love trying to grow plants from seeds that they find in the food that they eat. So much so that we end up germinating seeds all year around. Citrus seeds are always very interesting to try and germinate, it’s not all always easy but once you learn how it is a lot of…
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How to Harvest and Save Tomato Seeds.
Tomatoes are one of our favorite and most used fruits here in Our Little Chateau. They are sweet and tangy and go with almost everything, they are also tasty on there own. We eat a lot of different type of tomatoes from big to small, and in many different colors. For this reason we like…
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5 Ways To Freeze Fresh Garden Herbs
Since our yard in the new house is mostly made or bricks and astroturf we have been growing most of our garden goods indoors. Items like tomatoes, olives, ginger, and more. The items we have been growing the most both in doors and out are herbs. Our herb garden has gotten so large that we…
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Crochet Play Spaghetti Free Pattern
We have all been having fun learning to pretend play with the baby, and one of his favorite dishes is homemade spaghetti. He always wants to help around the kitchen especially when his favorite foods are involved. We couldn’t find any pretend play spaghetti so I decided to crochet up a batch of play spaghetti.…
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How To Propagate And Plant Mint From Store Bought Cuttings
Mint is a very good plant to have around a chateau it helps with stomach ailments, is refreshing, is very aromatic, and taste heavenly. When we first moved to Ireland one of the first things we did was bought a mint plant and we soon established a small into and outdoor mint garden. Only in…
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How To Grow A Mandarin Orange Tree From A Seed.
Last year the baby decided he wanted to try and grow a mandarin tree from seeds he found in one of his oranges. He carefully collected all of the seeds from a couple of oranges and asked if we could grow them. Growing citrus plants from seeds isn’t as easy as growing other edible plants…
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Easy Play Dough Recipe
Play dough is always a fun playtime activity. We have very found memories of our two oldest making figure after figure out of play dough when they were younger a lot of them what looked like cats and hearts. The baby is getting older and it’s time for us to start practicing making homemade made…
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How To Care For Calamondin Tree Indoors
We have a calamondin tree here at Our Little Chateau that always has oranges on it. Flowers come and go all year round even in the winter. We get a lot of questions as to why and how we get our indoor calamondin tree to fruit all year long. Since we have gotten the tree…
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