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Lavender: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!

Lavender is a beautiful bush that can be planted either in a raised bed or around your beds as a shrub. Its distinctive aroma is very pleasing and will attract all sorts of pollinators to your garden! It’s a wonderful companion plant for repelling slugs/snails, moths (such as cabbage moths), and deer as well. This blog post talks about how you can grow your own lavender using our free mobile app!

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Potato Soup Recipe

Instant Pot Creamy Baked Potato Soup

With the weather cooling down, nothing tastes better and warms you up more than a home-made soup! With the use of the instant pot, this potato soup is fast and simple to make when you are feeling the need to warm your soul. I hope you enjoy it as much as our entire family!

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From Seed to Spoon Was Featured as a Life-Changing App by Thrive Global!

“From Seed to Spoon is an app that teaches you how to grow your own produce and live a healthy lifestyle, from eating better, to figuring out what plants to grow in order to cure a migraine, sleep deprivation, and more. The founders have an amazing story too. They taught themselves how to grow food because they couldn’t afford expensive options. These amazing people are also a power couple: she’s an online nursing teacher and he’s a developer.”

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Opossums blog post

Critters: How Opossums (Possums) are Beneficial Garden Helpers!

Opossums (or possums) are nocturnal creatures that are generally good and beneficial to have in your garden! They help to get rid of ticks, cockroaches, snakes (even venomous ones), slugs/snails, rats, mice, and insects. Opossums will generally stay away from your garden as they prefer plants that are starting to rot, so they can actually a benefit in your garden by cleaning up the rotting fruit or vegetables! Many people get intimidated when they hiss,

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Mealybug blog post

Garden Pests: How to Manage Mealybugs in Your Vegetable Garden

Mealybugs are a small, white, soft-bodied insect typically found in the garden in warmer climates. Mealybugs will feed on plants by sucking sap out of them causing the leaves to yellow and curl. You may notice the plant getting sticky from the honeydew and this will attract ants as well. This blog post talks about how you can manage mealybugs in your garden with our free From Seed to Spoon mobile app!

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Pillbug blog post

Garden Pests: How To Manage Pillbugs (Roly Polys) in Your Backyard Vegetable Garden

Pillbugs, often called Roly Polys, can be commonly found in your garden. They are typically only a pest if there is an excess of them. These crustaceans are very important in the decomposition process in your garden. They like to feed primarily upon decaying matter but can also feed on seedlings or fruits/vegetables sitting on the ground if there is a lot in your garden.

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Herbs in Cool Weather video

How to Protect Your ? Herbs in ❄️ Cool Temperatures

Dale met with Ozzy from Smart Pots and discussed fall planting with smart pots. In this video, they discuss herbs and how to protect smart pots from cool temperatures.   Check out smart pots: https://amzn.to/2PGJcQs See the full video talking about fall crops in smart posts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOdIdsUeG_k&t=15s Dale discussing and showing our PVC row covers that we have in our garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxFZMII-zso&t=1s Watch Dale attach insect netting to one of our PVC raised bed covers:

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Cole Slaw recipe

Dale’s Mom’s Special Cole Slaw Recipe

This recipe comes from my mother-in-law who makes this cole slaw all the time for family parties. It is constantly requested and loved by all (even our 2 year old loves it!). It is not only tasty, but extremely fast and easy to make! I hope you enjoy as much as we do!

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How We Make Awesome 3D Garden Pictures on Facebook!

We’ve had so many people reach out to us about how we made our 3D garden pictures on Facebook! The first time that I saw this on Facebook I freaked out because it just looked so amazing and so real! I just had to figure out how to do this for myself. I was shocked to find out just how easy it was! The simple steps that you need to do to start posting your

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The Smart Pots tip that will change the way we water forever!

Dale and I spent the day working on transferring our plastic pots to smart pots on the garden. We seriously have shared the best Smart Pot tip that will change the way we water forever!! ?????? LOL!! ?   Learn more about growing over 70 different foods, including how to manage various pests in our FREE iOS, Android, or new Universal Web App! CarrieCarrie Spoonemore, co-founder of “From Seed to Spoon,” stands as a beacon

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Author: Carrie