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.


Frill Free Zone

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.

  • Feel the pride of salvaging a piece of architectural molding and using it in an innovative way;

  • get off the recycling train and learn ways of using your packaging, instead of filling the landfill.

  • Find natural materials close at hand that make a vernacular building style work perfectly in your climate.

The world is at the cusp of stopping waste in its tracks - what did our grand parents say? Waste not, want not...

Find all the updates and new pages here...

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May 13, 2026

Natural Fertilizer - eco-friendly nutrients for organic vertables

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If you're growing organic vegetables, you'll need natural fertilizers to keep them healthy...

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May 12, 2026

Liquid Organic Fertilizer - waste not, want not

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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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May 11, 2026

Economy Hanging Baskets - beauty for less, all summer

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Economy Hanging Baskets; there is no reason to spend lots of money on baskets and planters...

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May 10, 2026

Best Plants For a Hanging Basket - lots of choices

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Choose the Best Plants for a Hanging Basket with the options in this guide...

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May 09, 2026

Old Window Cold Frame - make a protective place for seedlings

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Make a protective place for seedlings and more with an Old Window Cold Frame...

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May 08, 2026

Lupins - nitrogen fixing cover crop, and beautiful garden plant

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Growing Lupins in your garden has multiple benefits; beauty, bee attracting, and nitrogen fixing...

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May 07, 2026

Live Rosemary Topiary - herb flavored decor

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Live Rosemary Topiary for a dream window sill garden - with pictures...

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May 06, 2026

Fruit Tree Pruning - techniques for better fruit production

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Techniques for better fruit production (and health); Fruit Tree Pruning...

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May 05, 2026

How to Grow Carrots - everyones favorite root vegetable

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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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May 04, 2026

Economy Bedding Plants - stretch those dollars further

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Grow more plants from cuttings off the seedlings, stretch your garden budget...

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May 03, 2026

Hens and Chicks Propagation - making more of the best plants

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Take an easy approach to your garden - Hens and Chicks Propagation

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May 02, 2026

Potatoes in Plastic - don't waste those thick peat moss bags!

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Don't waste those thick peat moss bages - grow Potatoes in Plastic!

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May 01, 2026

Flowering Streptocarpus - ways to get the Cape Primrose to bloom

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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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Apr 30, 2026

Garden Planters for all kinds of plants

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Garden Planters - fill with annuals, plant with bulbs or even succulents...

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Apr 29, 2026

Growing Willows - how to grow Salix

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How To add Salix to the mix - Growing Willows...

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Apr 28, 2026

Gardening With Sempervivum - what happens next

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With plants that need good drainage, this imperative must be met or they will not make it...

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Apr 27, 2026

Burlap Hanging Basket Liners - tips and methods

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Ways to save money while still having a gorgeous garden - use Burlap Hanging Basket Liners...

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Apr 26, 2026

Making a Dirty Bed - it's not as bad as it sounds!

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Weed control and adding to the organic matter of a garden - Making a Dirty Bed

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Apr 25, 2026

Honey as a Rooting Hormone - myth or magic?

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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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Apr 24, 2026

Building a Dead Hedge for a sustainable habitat

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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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AUTHOR BIO

Jacki Cammidge is a Certified Horticulturist who helps gardeners grow more with less through low-input, budget-friendly gardening and propagation. She has gardened her whole life, served as head propagator at a wholesale nursery, and handled thousands of rose and juniper cuttings.

Readers can find her at Frill Free on Facebook and Pinterest. Her frill-free approach was forged in northern BC, where horse manure, leaves, salvaged sawdust, and a deer-tested raised bed built her garden from scratch.