Home and Garden
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Bedroom desk? It's somewhere under all that junkJul 18, 2014 5:00 am - Alyssa Kimble, a soon-to-be sixth-grader in White Plains, New York, says she uses the desk in her bedroom for "everything" - creating lesson plans for her make-believe s...
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Tricks for bringing up summer spinachJul 17, 2014 5:30 am - Popeye ain't the only bloke who's gotta have spinach. Some gardeners also crave it, freshly picked. This isn't spinach season, though. Spinach is sensitive to cycles of ...
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There's still time to plant zucchiniJul 16, 2014 1:01 am - Q: Every year I plant zucchini, and every year I have the same problem arise with them. After a month or so of growing, I notice that the stems seem to start rotting rig...
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Courtyard garden at Inverness parish is a labor of loveJul 15, 2014 11:00 pm - A pair of blue herons, motionless, pose in the courtyard fountain at Holy Family Parish in Inverness. In fact, the statues hold the key to the success of the garden tha...
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Make your room pop with the right area rugJul 15, 2014 5:30 am - There is hardly a room that doesn't need an area rug. It is that item that puts a finishing touch on any room. Rugs can turn a room that seems not quite finished into a ...
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Agastache plants star as a summer perennial borderJul 13, 2014 6:15 am - If you were to imagine an ideal perennial, would it have dense spikes of tubular flowers that bloom from June to frost and don't require deadheading? Would it perform in...
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Garden Conservancy Open Days features area gardensJul 13, 2014 6:00 am - Horticultural delights like hydrangeas simultaneously producing both pink and blue blooms, a grass labyrinth, a vine-and-rose entwined pergola garden, a bed of Italian f...
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How to remodel a kitchen for $5,400Jul 13, 2014 12:01 am - Laurie Parman envisioned the type of home she ultimately wanted. It would be a fixer-upper, much smaller than the 3,500-square-foot Algonquin home where she reared her f...
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Stylish storage ideas for shelves and cabinetsJul 13, 2014 12:01 am - Open storage in any room can be both practical and dazzling fun. Granted, you need to exercise a sort of discipline when you intend to expose stored things to public vie...
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Pruning, watering will help keep your yard looking sharpJul 12, 2014 6:00 am - Prune shrubs as needed to keep them in the proper scale for your garden. New stems and branches that grew this spring will be mostly hardened off in early July, so pruni...