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Crafts from the Fall Garden

Ideas for crafts and gifts from the fall garden.
How to Preserve Fruits and Vegetables
How to preserve fruits and vegetables by drying, canning, pickling and making jams and jellies. Keep the freshness of the harvest by preserving your own garden vegetables at home. There’s a method safe and easy enough for everyone, as well as tips for success and recipe suggestions.
Pressing Fall Leaves - How to Preserve the Beauty of Fall Foliage
Fall foliage is a highlight of the season. Colorful leaves may be even more attractive than flowers. However to make an indoor display of fall foliage, it helps if you dry or preserve the leaves first. Luckily this is easy to do and there are 4 basic methods for pressing and preserving colorful fall leaves below.
Fall Decorations from the Garden
Using flowers from the garden to decorate is a fast and easy routine during the summer. Fall lends itself to more sumptuous decorating. The richer colors, dried seed pods and grasses and ample harvest provide supplies for some wonderful centerpieces, swags, and crafts. Here are some ideas for fall decorating from the garden. Use them as is or let them feed your imagination.
Quick and Easy Thanksgiving Centerpieces from the Garden
Thanksgiving centerpieces can be elaborate creations or as simple as a basket full of colorful leaves and berries. Forage through your own yard and gardens for the making of a holiday display. What nature doesn’t supply can be easily found in grocery stores and nurseries, like roses and carnations in shades of orange and gold, russet sunflowers and spider mums and purple pikes of Liatris. Here are some suggestions to get your imagination going.
How to Dry or Cure Gourds
Ornamental gourds grow as easily as zucchini. But unlike zucchini, there is no limit to what you can do with gourds. By drying ornamental gourds, you can keep them intact indefinitely. Drying gourds is an easy process, but it takes time. Here’s all you need to know about how to dry gourds.
Garden Crafts - Evergreen Sachets from the Garden
Bring a little of the garden season inside with fragrant evergreen sachets.

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