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How to Grow Hoya Kerrii (Hoya Heart Plant)
Hoya Kerrii, also known as the Hoya Heart Plant, is from Southeast Asia. It is a tropical/subtropical plant that likes to vine up trees in the forest. You can find this plant being sold in stores on Valentine’s Day worldwide. It is easy to care for, slow-growing, beautiful, and a symbol of enduring love and…
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Fried Green Tomatoes Recipe
Fall is in full swing my friends and that means that some of our tomatoes didn’t have time to ripen. This may sound like a bad thing, but it is actually exciting. Why, because we get to make fried green tomatoes! Green Tomatoes are prefect for frying because they are crispy, tangy, and won’t get…
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Sautéed Skillet Potatoes Recipe
Sautéing food is method of cooking that was invented in France. Sautéing is when you lightly fry food in a pan on high heat. This method makes the food crispy on the outside and soft on the inside and was invented in the 1800s. There are many different methods to sautéing food, some are healthy…
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How to Grow Sweet Basil
Sweet Basil is the green sweet basil that everyone all over the world uses in a wide variety of dishes. It originates from Africa and was first domesticated in India. Sweet Basil has also been found in Egyptian tombs and in artifacts from Greece. Sun – Sweet Basil needs 6-8 hours of full sun. …
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How To Grow Patiohit Roses
Mother’s Day is coming soon which means roses and flowers will be sold everywhere because we all love mummy, and grandma too! Patiohit Roses are miniature rose bushes that are cultivated to grow in small spaces. They were designed to grow on patios hints the name and are largely sold and giving out as present…
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How to Grow the Irish Shamrock Plant Seamróg
The Irish Shamrock plant originally named seamróg but also know as white shamrock is a summer clover plant with white flowers. The word seamróg in Irish means clover and is used to describe both three leaf and four clover. A little not so well known fact is that clover is also edible and in Ireland…
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How To Grow Daisy Fleabane Flowers
Daisy Fleabane is a multi steamed small flower plant that come in a verity of colors. These beautiful little flowers are used in crafts and bouquets but they can also be used as a natural pest control plant. A lot of small insects such as ladybugs also known as lady beetles and lady birds, small…
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Gingerbread House Recipe
We love making our own gingerbread dough for houses. This year we also made a gingerbread boat and it came out really good. This recipe can make about four or five houses depending on the size of houses you are making. We also use the scraps to make tiny houses to hang on cups and…
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How To Grow Snap Green Beans
Snap green peas can grow in a surprisingly small spaces. We love to grow these because our little one loves them. We started to grow them when he was a baby to mash up for his baby food. The photo above is of one of our snap green bean plants that we didn’t have room…
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How To Grow Blueberries
Home grown blueberries are very sweet. This delicious blue fruit is high in antioxidants and is a wonderful and easy edible plant to grow in your garden at home. Sun – Blueberry bushes need 6-8 hours of full sun day. They also need sunlight to help them grow through their dormancy phase it helps their…