For People Who Like to Sweat, Swear & Do Stuff
🇨🇦 Est 2010 🇨🇦
The Latest Stuff
- How to Hand Pollinate Your Squash & Zucchini
- How To Get Rid Of Powdery Mildew (Organic Treatment)
- Rooting a Tomato Sucker & Breaking all the Rules
- Picket Fence Building
- How to Make Homemade Mayonnaise
- Picket Fences
- It Was a Good Week to Sell Ice
- Does Boiling Water Really Kill Weeds?
- You Know You're Canadian When ...
- Dahlia Victory, Historic Gardens & A Very Naked Criminal
- How to Light a Charcoal BBQ Without Lighter Fluid (In 2 Minutes)
- Do You Know How to Sharpen Your Push Mower?
- The Things I Bought & Loved
- A Bug In My Bonnet, A Flow Blue Lamp & Pizza Politics: What I Did This Week
- 4 Easy Salad Dressings For Summer
- A Beginner's Guide to Apple Espaliers
- The Landscape Project Weeks 3 & 4: Tearing Things Out & Spending More Money
- I Fired Google
- The Evolution of Plastic Surgery
- A Really Good Curry Chicken Salad
BACKYARD HACKS & INSPIRATION
The Latest Stuff
GARDENING
Gardening tips, tricks & tutorials from 25 years of experience.
- How to Grow Zucchini: You've Been Doing It All Wrong.
- The English Cottage Garden - Year 6
- How to Grow Tomatoes - in Pots or the Ground
- Growing Your Own Loofah Sponge - Step-by-step
- How to Grow Potatoes - Complete Guide
- Installing an Electric Fence in Your Home Garden.
- From Seed to Sprout: Discover the Art of Seed Starting
- How to Grow Sweet Potatoes aka Kūmara
"To call planting a seed gardening is like calling boiling a pot of water cooking. Gardening is everything that comes before and after the seed is planted."
karen bertelsen
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FOOD
- Indian Street Corn. Kicking Your Plain Corn to the Curb.
- How to Make Homemade Hamburgers - My Way
- Roasted Asparagus with Shaved Parmesan
- Classic Caesar Salad. Please Don't Buy That Crap in a Jar
- Guaranteed Crispy, Roasted Potatoes with a Tangy Mustard/Dill Sauce
- The Best Cheese for Burgers. 7 Gooey Options.
- The Summery, Sugary, Lemon Drop Tart
- How to Cook Ribs. A Complete (seriously) Guide.
PROJECTS
HOW-TO TUTORIALS
Get them done now so your season doesn't suck later.
Bad Day? These'll Make You Laugh.
At the very least you'll grin at these stories of my misfortunes.
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About Karen
My name is Karen Bertelsen and I was a television host. In Canada. Which means in terms of notoriety and wealth, I was somewhere on par with the manager of a Sunset Tan in Wisconsin.
I quit television to start a blog with the goal that I could make my living through blogging and never have to host a television show again. And it's worked out. I'm making a living blogging. If you're curious, this is how I do that.
So I'm doing this in reverse basically. I'm the only blogger who is trying to NOT get a TV show.
The Posts That Made Me Famous
Thanks to Google, Pinterest & Design*Sponge (RIP) these are my most popular posts of all time.
- The Modern Chicken Coop
- How to Make a Tree Stump Table - DIY End Table
- How to Grow Zucchini: You've Been Doing It All Wrong.
- How to Make Homemade Hamburgers - My Way
- The Backyard Ideas Post! 26 Tips & Tricks For Creating A Beautiful Backyard.
- Have a Ryobi Battery That Won't Charge? You Can Fix That.
- Growing Your Own Loofah Sponge - Step-by-step
- How to Build Interior Window Shutters.
- Halloween Craft. The Pumpkin Diorama - An Update.
- How to Make a Pumpkin Pie With Fresh Pumpkin
- How to Recover a Chair in 5 minutes
- How to Avoid Courier Broker Fees From Online Shopping.
