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The end of the year is always a good time to reflect on the gardening articles that received the highest views, so I can see which posts you find the most helpful and useful. Evaluating the most popular posts helps me understand what kinds of information you are looking for and will shape the articles I write in the year to come as we share the journey to Grow a Good Life.

Top 10 Gardening Posts of 2015

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Tourtière: A French-Canadian Meat Pie Recipe

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Seasoned Tomato Sauce Recipe for Home Canning

Taking the effort to clean up the vegetable garden beds in fall makes it very easy to begin growing the following spring. Tips to do before the snow flies.

7 Tips to Prepare Your Vegetable Garden for Winter

What do you do after you have preserved all the harvest that you can and the garden is still producing? Even when you take the time to try to estimate how many plants to grow for fresh produce and enough to preserve, often times there is a bumper crop of one thing or another. Here are some ways to share the harvest bounty instead of tossing the extras into the compost bin.

4 Ways to Share the Garden Harvest Bounty

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Canning Green Beans for Food Storage

This easy, crockpot tomato sauce made with fresh tomatoes is rich and flavorful. It takes little effort to fill the slow cooker up with all the ingredients and let it simmer all day.

Crockpot Tomato Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes

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Homemade Crabapple Jelly with No Added Pectin

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6 Tips to Prepare for Canning Season

This garden fresh salsa recipe takes advantage of seasonal ingredients. It is so easy to make, just toss the ingredients into a food processor or blender, pulse it to the consistency you like, and enjoy.

Garden Fresh Salsa

Mulching is one of the best things you can do for your garden. A generous layer of mulch over the soil surface will suppress weeds, retain moisture, and provide and soil enrichment as it decomposes. Mulch also helps protect the soil from erosion, moderates the soil temperature, and makes the garden look neat and tidy. Mulching has some disadvantages as well. It can smother your plants, tie up nutrients, add unwanted chemicals, grow fungus, and slow water penetration.

20 Garden Mulching Tips from Seasoned Growers

The goal of succession planting is to make the most of your garden space and keep the beds growing and producing fresh harvests.

3 Succession Planting Tips to Maximize Your Harvest

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