Home and Garden
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Take time to enjoy the fruits of your laborSep 13, 2020 7:00 am - Continue to harvest vegetables as they ripen. Warm-season crops like peppers and tomatoes should be picked as soon as possible. Full-sized pumpkins need to remain on the...
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How to plant for fragrant summer nightsSep 13, 2020 7:00 am - Neither evening stocks nor jasmine tobacco are particularly worthy plants by day. But as darkness falls, the petals of each of these flowers unfurl to release a deliciou...
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The best interior design tool is a notebookSep 13, 2020 7:00 am - Once in a while, designers emerge to challenge the ideas about how we live and how we could live. They are ready to experiment with an idea, some that are quite beautifu...
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Work spaces that work for kids, parentsSep 13, 2020 7:00 am - Without warning last spring, millions of parents found themselves working from home while their kids attempted to do schoolwork under the same roof. The changes happened...
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Former Daily Herald garden writer earns honorSep 13, 2020 7:00 am - Mary B. Good, who wrote a garden column for the Daily Herald called “The Potting Shed” for more than 20 years, was honored in August as a Fellow by Garden Communicators ...
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Some gardeners in a pickle over scarce canning suppliesSep 13, 2020 6:00 am - MARSHFIELD, Vt. — It's the time of year when gardeners are turning their ripe tomatoes into sauces and salsas and cucumbers into pickles. But a boom in gardening and pre...
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Builder unwilling to repair defectsSep 13, 2020 6:00 am - Q: Our home is about a year old, and our builder has been unwilling to repair defects we've reported to him. The first thing we noted were cracks in the porcelain floor ...
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Now's the time to plant a fall container for your gardenSep 13, 2020 1:00 am - September is a perfect time to plant a beautiful fall container when many annual plants are beginning to decline because of temperature changes, summer heat stress, inse...
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Viatorian gardeners grow food to help families in needSep 11, 2020 6:00 am - With at least two more months of harvesting to go, Viatorian gardeners already have grown - and donated - nearly as many vegetables as all of last summer, or around 800 ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright home in Phoenix sells for $7.25 millionSep 09, 2020 4:00 pm - PHOENIX - A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Phoenix has sold more than $7 million. The Arizona Republic reported that the David and Gladys Wright House sold for $7.2...