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(And Taking Up Less Space Isn’t One Of Them)Five reasons why you should grow cucumbers up on a trellis no matter how big your garden is for the best results. While cucumbers are easy to grow vertically, there are just three things you’ll need to do differently to grow cucumbers up instead of out. Use this free printable Garden Success Notebook to keep track of all your garden experiments: Plan, dream, record and collect information for your best garden yet with AOC's 10-page Garden Success Plan Notebook - a simple system to help keep you organized. The very first cucumbers grown on a trellis will appear at the bottom (like the photo in #3 above), and may be a bit dirty, but once the plants have grown up the trellis a bit more, you will just be able pick just by reaching in, push the leaves aside and grab a perfect, mostly straight fully colored cucumber!

This recipe is one of AOC’s Pantry Basic series – basic foods you can find in almost everyone’s pantries that we buy from the store, thinking (like I did! ) that they can’t be made at home. Here’s a video I made to show you just how easy: For this easy homemade ketchup recipe you’ll need these pantry staples: • tomato paste (Only one can is pictured, you’ll need two 6 ounce or one 12 ounce for a full recipe.) Once it’s simmered, cool the ketchup a bit, testing to make sure it’s the consistency you like, and use the metal funnel to carefully pour it into a glass bottle. I haven’t tried others and don’t use sugar substitutes, so can’t speak for them.

Seafood Chowder with Green ChiliesA recipe for classic creamy seafood chowder that adds an interesting south-of-the-border taste with green chilies, paprika, and a splash of lemon juice. In order to find out, I created a recipe using one of my favorite chowder recipes and adding the chilies, paprika, and lemon juice I had seen in the other recipe. You cook the vegetables in a bit of butter and add spices and flour for thickening, cook that around a bit, and cover with water or broth before bringing to a boil in order to fully cook the potatoes. PrintA recipe for classic creamy seafood chowder that adds an interesting south-of-the-border taste with green chilies, paprika, and a splash of lemon juice.

I’ve discovered how to minimize weeds in: But the most life-changing (at least in my gardening life) for me are the five easy steps I use to control weeds in our garden shrub and flower beds – and not just for spring, but for the whole year! You can use garden compost like we do (don’t use homemade compost for this, though, as the weed seeds won’t have been killed like commercial compost), bark chips, tree trimmings, pine needles and even straw (though it won’t look as good in flower beds). * Garden compost: we like the brown color of the mulch garden centers call “garden compost. You can also use cardboard, but since it’s thicker, use it only in areas you don’t want to plant any annuals (like under trees or between large, established shrubs).