Jacki Cammidge is a Certified Horticulturist specializing in frugal, low-input gardening and propagation, with lifelong hands-on experience and years as a wholesale nursery head propagator.
The Frill Free Zone is where we get to the nitty gritty of living simply; eliminate all the unnecessary, useless, frivolous or giddy; it's where you get serious about creating your unique life that suits you to perfection.
The world is at the cusp of stopping waste in its tracks - what did our grand parents say? Waste not, want not...
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If you're growing organic vegetables, you'll need natural fertilizers to keep them healthy...
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Using Liquid Organic Fertilizer on your garden is one of the most sustainable practices you can imagine; you will never run out of this high nitrogen fertilizer
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Economy Hanging Baskets; there is no reason to spend lots of money on baskets and planters...
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Choose the Best Plants for a Hanging Basket with the options in this guide...
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Make a protective place for seedlings and more with an Old Window Cold Frame...
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Growing Lupins in your garden has multiple benefits; beauty, bee attracting, and nitrogen fixing...
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Live Rosemary Topiary for a dream window sill garden - with pictures...
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Techniques for better fruit production (and health); Fruit Tree Pruning...
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Learn how to produce the sweetest, crunchiest root vegetables in your organic garden; How to Grow Carrots organically; for nutrition the carrot can't be beaten...
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Grow more plants from cuttings off the seedlings, stretch your garden budget...
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Take an easy approach to your garden - Hens and Chicks Propagation
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Don't waste those thick peat moss bages - grow Potatoes in Plastic!
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If you grow Streptocarpus, you need to know what factors will trigger their flowering cycle - after all, those gorgeous orchid like blooms are why we grow them...
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Garden Planters - fill with annuals, plant with bulbs or even succulents...
With plants that need good drainage, this imperative must be met or they will not make it...
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Ways to save money while still having a gorgeous garden - use Burlap Hanging Basket Liners...
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Weed control and adding to the organic matter of a garden - Making a Dirty Bed
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Honey as a Rooting Hormone - could it be a myth that doesn't work, or does it magically help plants to root?
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Building a Dead Hedge for a sustainable way to outline boundaries, create a wind break and make a habitat...
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