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 28, 2026

Using Super Thrive - taking cuttings and giving them a boost

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You can give your cuttings the best chance ever at success, but using Super Thrive will do just that...

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May 27, 2026

Spiral Garden - mystical, intuitive garden designs

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A Spiral Garden adds a mystical and intuitive design to your organic garden; for herbs, a bee garden, vegetables or flowers; try using this unique design in your garden...

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May 26, 2026

Aminopyralid Herbicide Damage in Tomato Plants - what it looks like

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How to Fix Aminopyralid Herbicide Damage in Tomato Plants

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May 25, 2026

Bat Guano - high nitrogen natural fertilizer

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Bat Guano - high nitrogen natural fertilizer - but make sure to use it judiciously...

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May 24, 2026

Garden Bugs - pests, predators & prey insects

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Pests, predators and prey insects - what are the Bugs in your Garden?

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May 23, 2026

How to Kill Flies - simple, non-toxic solutions to an annoying problem

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Flies buzzing around your face and landing on your food as you're trying to eat, how annoying is that? Learn some simple ways to get rid of them once and for all...

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May 22, 2026

Starting a Gardening Business - make money homesteading

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Make money with horticulture - by Starting a Gardening Business where you have complete control...

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May 21, 2026

Living Roof; green, growing and lush to protect the home

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A Living Roof over your dwelling provides shelter for the roof itself, as well as habitat for small creatures and insects, water collection and storm water abatement; there is no downside

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May 20, 2026

Syrphid Flies, that ubiquitous hover fly...

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Sometimes known by other names, the syrphid fly can be found hovering near dill or other plants, looking for aphids...

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May 19, 2026

Redo Your Hanging Baskets for a refresh

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Redo Your Hanging Baskets for a refresh...

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May 18, 2026

A Guest Post; How Do You Adjust Soil pH Organically?

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How Do You Adjust Soil pH Organically? A Guest Post to show you how...

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May 17, 2026

Square Foot Gardening Method - raised beds, intensively gardened

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Follow the Square Foot Gardening Method outlined here for your intensive garden...

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May 16, 2026

Sprinkle Bottle to give your plants a gentle wash

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Need a DIY sprinkle bottle for your plants that won't wash the soil away, but gives a good drenching? Here the instructions...

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May 15, 2026

5000 Kilometer Sempervivum - how did they survive the trip?

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Moving thousands of plants across the continent is a trek like no other - The 5000 Kilometer Sempervivum

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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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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.