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Looking for the perfect companions for your hydrangeas? Try planting hostas, ferns, Japanese painted ferns, bleeding hearts, hellebores, and boxwood to create a layered landscape full of color and texture. These easy companion planting ideas will help your hydrangeas thrive.

The Best Plants to Grow with Hydrangeas

Want healthier, longer-blooming zinnias? Avoid planting them near mint, giant sunflowers, black walnut trees, and powdery mildew-prone plants like bee balm and phlox. Learn which plants can compete for space, block sunlight, or increase disease in your cottage garden.

What Not to Plant With Zinnias: 8 Plants to Avoid

Don't let fresh rhubarb go to waste! Learn how to preserve it with Rhubarb Jelly, Strawberry Rhubarb Jam, Rhubarb Butter, Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Filling, and Rhubarb Simple Syrup. These homemade recipes are perfect for stocking your pantry or giving as thoughtful gifts.

5 Rhubarb Recipes for Canning You’ll Want to Make Every Summer

Moist Blueberry Zucchini Bread You'll Make All Summer

Moist Blueberry Zucchini Bread You’ll Make All Summer

Cool off with this refreshing blueberry mojito made with fresh blueberries, mint, lime, white rum, and sparkling water. This easy summer cocktail is perfect for backyard BBQs, pool parties, and relaxing on the patio. A delicious drink recipe for summer food, simple homemade living, and from scratch living.

The Best Homemade Blueberry Mojito for Summer

Cool off with this refreshing homemade blueberry lemonade! Made with fresh blueberries, real lemons, and simple pantry ingredients, this easy summer drink is perfect for backyard barbecues, picnics, and hot afternoons. A delicious recipe for summer food, simple homemade living, and from scratch living.

The Best Blueberry Lemonade Recipe for Summer

The Best Nectarine Plum Jam for Canning

The Best Nectarine Plum Jam for Canning

Learn how to make delicious homemade Chinese-style plum sauce with fresh plums, gingerroot, onions, mustard seeds, and jalapeños. This easy canning recipe is perfect for preserving summer fruit and makes a flavorful sauce for egg rolls, grilled chicken, pork, and stir fry. A delicious addition to your from scratch living pantry.

Homemade Chinese Plum Sauce for Canning

Looking for the best ways to preserve plums? These delicious recipes include plum jelly, plum jam, blackberry plum jam, spiced plum jam, nectarine plum jam, and homemade plum sauce. Perfect for filling your pantry and enjoying simple homemade living all year long.

6 Easy Plum Canning Recipes You’ll Make Every Year

From sweet peach jam to savory peach salsa, these are some of the best recipes for canning peaches at home. Perfect for gardeners, homesteaders, and anyone who loves simple homemade living and from scratch living. Fill your pantry with homemade peach goodness this summer.

5 Favorite Peach Canning Recipes You’ll Make Every Year

This moist Pineapple Zucchini Bread is packed with sweet pineapple flavor and fresh garden zucchini. It's the perfect summer food for using up extra zucchini and fits beautifully into a from scratch living lifestyle. Enjoy a slice for breakfast, snacks, or dessert.

Pineapple Zucchini Bread Recipe You’ll Make All Summer

This Lemon Zucchini Bread is incredibly moist, packed with fresh lemon flavor, and topped with a sweet lemon glaze. It's the perfect way to use extra zucchini from the garden and makes a delicious treat for breakfast, brunch, or an afternoon snack.

Easy Lemon Zucchini Bread with Lemon Glaze

This Slow Cooker Shoyu Chicken is packed with sweet and savory flavor and tastes even better than takeout. If you love easy Asian food recipes, this tender chicken dinner is perfect for busy weeknights and family meals. Serve over rice for a simple dinner everyone will love.

Better Than Takeout Slow Cooker Shoyu Chicken

These Slow Cooker Mongolian Meatballs are sweet, savory, and packed with flavor. With minimal prep and a rich homemade sauce, this easy family dinner is perfect for busy weeknights. Serve over rice for a simple meal everyone will love.

Easy Crockpot Mongolian Meatballs for Busy Nights

Learn which plants can stunt sunflower growth and which cottage garden flowers help them thrive. Discover why potatoes, corn, and pole beans are poor companions and why nasturtiums, basil, lavender, ageratum, and marigolds are better choices for a beautiful garden.

What Not to Plant With Sunflowers (Avoid These Common Garden Mistakes)

Create a dreamy cottage garden filled with bee balm, climbing roses, lavender, and bright zinnias. These beautiful flowers provide nectar, color, and charm while attracting hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators to your backyard.

Cottage Garden Flowers That Attract Hummingbirds

Cool off with this refreshing Homemade Rhubarb Iced Tea recipe. Made with fresh rhubarb, real tea, and a touch of sweetness, this easy summer drink is perfect for porch sitting, backyard gatherings, and simple homemade living. If you love seasonal recipes made from garden-fresh ingredients, you'll want to add this one to your summer menu.

Refreshing Rhubarb Iced Tea for Summer

This homemade Rhubarb Chutney is one of the best ways to preserve the flavors of spring. Made with fresh rhubarb and pantry staples, it's a flavorful condiment that's perfect for entertaining or everyday meals. Ideal for anyone who enjoys old-fashioned recipes, country living, and creating homemade food from scratch.

Old-Fashioned Rhubarb Chutney Recipe

Learn how to make beautiful lavender closet sachets using dried lavender and simple fabric bags. This easy project adds natural fragrance to closets, drawers, and linens while fitting perfectly into a lifestyle of simple homemaking. One of my favorite DIY lavender recipes for using homegrown lavender.

DIY Lavender Closet Sachets You’ll Love Making

Create stunning layers in your cottage garden with tall flowers like hollyhocks, foxgloves, delphiniums, Joe Pye weed, and climbing roses. These beautiful blooms add height, structure, and old-fashioned charm to the back of garden borders.

Best Tall Flowers for a Dreamy Cottage Garden

The Best Homemade Peach Jam for Canning

The Best Homemade Peach Jam for Canning

This homemade Plum Jam is sweet, fruity, and bursting with fresh plum flavor. Whether you're preserving a backyard harvest or shopping the farmers market, this easy recipe is perfect for simple homemade living and from scratch living. Delicious on toast, biscuits, and desserts.

The Best Plum Jam for Canning Season

Discover delicious jelly recipes including root beer jelly, watermelon jelly, mint jelly, chokecherry jelly, plum jelly, and more. Whether you're looking for classic flavors or something unique, these homemade jelly recipes are perfect for your pantry and gift baskets.

10 Homemade Jelly Recipes to Make All Year Long

This easy plum jelly recipe creates a sweet, crystal-clear jelly that's perfect on toast, biscuits, and homemade bread. A wonderful recipe for from scratch living, preserving summer fruit, and filling your pantry with homemade goodness.

Old-Fashioned Plum Jelly You’ll Make Every Year

Capture the bold flavor of fresh pomegranates with this easy homemade jelly recipe. Whether you're a beginner canner or a seasoned pro, this beautiful preserve is a delicious addition to your pantry and holiday gift baskets.

Homemade Pomegranate Jelly You’ll Want Every Year

Bright, sweet, and full of citrus flavor, this homemade mandarin orange jelly recipe is a delicious addition to your pantry. Learn how to make and can mandarin jelly for toast, biscuits, English muffins, and more.

Easy Mandarin Orange Jelly Recipe for Canning

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