Start with a block of Parmesan cheese..

b) Work towards creating a garden that’s full enough with plants that the weeds that do come through aren’t very noticeable at all.. A garden like that takes a lot of years to build up, but we were able to lay the ground work for what this garden will be in the future in just one afternoon..Eventually, we’re aiming for something that looks like this:.

This photo came from American Meadows.The garden is full, full, full and little bit wild-looking.We did have a lot of big mature plants like this at our old house and I can’t wait to get back to that stage of gardening here..

If you’d love a full, easy-to-deal-with, little-work-lotta-reward garden like this one too, but don’t have thousands to spend on it, here are our tips!.Shop at the right time.. We bought all of our plants on the May long weekend, which is generally considered here to be the “gardening weekend”.

That’s when the nurseries and big box stores had all their blowout deals for the season on and we were able to get a lot of good basic plants for a steal.

The big box stores don’t typically have the selection that the nurseries do, but they do have some great prices.Position your water bottle with the opening making contact with the yolk and release your squeeze to create suction.

Up goes the yolk!Repeat this with as may yolks as you need to remove.. Now you have a bottle of yolks!

If you need to use them elsewhere in the recipe, you can squeeze them out one at a time as needed.(I mean it both ways, as in “fun” and as in “tidy” as well!).