Tired of the same old Christmas baking? These easy Chocolate Covered Rice Krispie Treats will shake up your usual holiday baking. The recipe comes together in minutes and is sure to impress. Your only problem will be keeping enough on hand for friends and family.
Finding a gift for the gardener in your life can be challenging. Sure, tools or gardening gloves are the obvious choice, but they will probably only be appreciated by the most serious of gardeners. I’ve come up with some pretty and practical suggestions for beginners and advanced gardener’s alike, as well as a few options for kids who love tagging along in the garden.
Bonus! Most of these gifts are $30 or less!!
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We’ve all picked up a cute little succulent from the garden centre or grocery store, only to have it die a horrible death a few months later. How could this happen? Succulents are supposed to be easy!!
While succulents don’t require as much maintenance as other plants, they’re not fool-proof. Here’s what you need to know to keep yours alive and thriving over the winter months.
Disclaimer: I garden in zone 3b on the Canadian Prairies. While I make every effort to make my advice as applicable to as many people as possible, growing conditions in your area might be vastly different. However, I love to hear from readers in other areas, so let us know in the comments if there’s a different way to keep succulents alive where you live!
Do you have any special traditions on your birthday? For my Mom, she likes poppyseed cake with caramel icing. Her Mom used to make it for her every year, until one year she decided for some crazy reason that peanut butter icing would be much better.
My Mom can’t stand peanut butter.
Needless to say, my Mom didn’t get her special cake for years afterward.
Around 10 years ago, I asked my Mom what her favourite cake was and she told me about the poppyseed cake with caramel frosting. At first I thought it sounded kind of weird, but once I tasted it, I understood why it was her favourite.
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Do you dream of a yard full of beautiful cut flowers and filling your Instagram feed with their gorgeous blooms? If you’ve read the Floret Farm’s Cut Flower book or seen their Instagram feed, chances are you’ve caught the flower bug and are wondering how you could ever make your flower fantasies come true. Just me? Anyway.
I interviewed Saskatoon’s Danielle Fulawka, a full-time artist and cut flower gardener (yes, you read that correctly!!) and asked her to spill her secrets on how she was able to start a Floret-style flower farm in her small city backyard on the cheap. She was able to start her business from scratch for $2000 and break even in the first year.
