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If you live in an area that gets freezing temperatures in winter, add one more task to your Fall To Do list: drain your rain barrel.

This is the area that won our family a Landscaping Makeover. Pitiful, isn't it?

See these? They look like pretty creek rock, don't they? Well they're not! They are clumps of Missouri clay soil, which are hard as rocks.

The volunteers are coffee-fueled and ready to work!

I had a ton of fresh tomatoes - what do to? I sent them to the deep freeze. Yes, it’s true. You can freeze tomatoes. Here’s how.

I got the itch to make something dare I say - a little punk rock? So grabbed some Doctor Martian boots and made them into a planter.

I tried to grow miniature sunflowers on my back patio from seed this summer. My first from seed project! Here's what happened.

We have, literally, a cucumber patch behind our main garden. I bought the cucumber plants as seedlings and never bothered to thin them.