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Home repairs: Do it yourself
In times of economic hardship, “do-it-yourself” is a tempting mantra for many homeowners with dripping faucets, running toilets, leaky windows or sticky locks. The savings can add up when you do...
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Associated Press A cat investigates a potted plant with toothpicks placed in the potting soil used to keep cats away from the soil in houseplants.
Cats, houseplants can mix
Cats like houseplants, but houseplants don’t like cats. Or, at least, cats don’t do houseplants any good. Take my ponytail palm, for example. My cat is an outdoor cat, but I know that if she cam...
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News and notes for the home and garden
Author encourages improving over moving Architect Duo Dickinson thinks there’s a positive fallout from the lackluster housing market: Instead of continually moving up, more people are staying in...
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Associated Press Plant mass groups of flowers that have similar watering and fertilizer needs. It will save a great deal of time and effort plus add visual impact.
Downsize, ease your gardening workload
If you’re gardening more but enjoying it less, maybe it’s time to add some labor-saving ideas to that list of New Year’s resolutions. Those can range from downsizing to mulching, from using nati...
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Serious gardeners already planning for next year’s crops
Remember how wonderful fresh off the vines tomatoes or raw green beans tasted this summer? Even though winter is just a few days old, it is time to start planning the spring, summer and fall garden...
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Do-it-yourselfer
Q: My older house has a number of cracks in the plaster walls and ceilings. In some cases, the plaster is pulling away from the wood lath behind it. Can I fix these like drywall cracks — taping ove...
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A rosemary by any other name would smell as sweet
The herb garden this year seemed to have a Scarborough Fair theme with parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme being predominant. Sage and thyme were content with whatever nature brought them. As parsley...
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Associated Press A weeping fig tree in New Paltz, N.Y. Weeping fig -- sometimes merely called ficus, which is the botanical name for the whole fig genus -- is among the prettiest figs.
Some figs are not for eating
Even if you don’t grow edible fruits, it’s likely you’ve grown some sort of ornamental fig. They range from creeping vines to majestic trees, most of them tropical, in which case they can make maje...
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Synthetic lawn is easy to install and maintain
The dream of a perfect lawn, if that’s your goal in life, is easier than you think. No watering. No fertilizing. No mowing. No weeding. Just sit back and enjoy the sight of green grass — synt...
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Personalize ornaments with clay
My parents bought me a new Christmas tree ornament every year when I was growing up, ensuring that I’d have quite a collection when I started my own family. But few are marked with the date, and it...
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