Improve Your Home and Garden
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Even if you have a large vegetable or flower garden, you may be able to start your own winter vegetables in a cold frame. You will save money, raise superior plants, get plants that are directly acclimatized to your locality, and you can produce a far greater variety of plants. A great advantage of starting [...]
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Today, more than ever, folks are struggling with the above question. There are many things that need to be considered before you find the answer. Let’s start with remodel. Should you go to the expense of remodeling your home, whether it is a new kitchen, bathroom, family room, windows or a new roof? The first [...]
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Very few gardeners in the United States, other than Martha Stewart use the English method of cloche gardening. However, it is interesting to study the process and perhaps adapt some aspects of this gardening technique in our own home gardens. A cloche looks like a tall glass water bottle with the bottom cut out. The [...]
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Garage floors take a beating. Concrete often cracks as the building settles. Fluids from cars and lawn mowers leave nasty stains. Paint spills dot the surface. After a few years all this can add up to an unsightly mess. Fortunately, there are more options than ever for renewing your garage floor surface. Garage Floor [...]
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Almost every yard has a spot that could use a ground cover for one reason or another. It’s a good idea to look over a comprehensive list of ground covers to help select just the right one. Ground covers are a practical addition to the yard and an important asset to the overall landscape theme. [...]
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October is a great time to work in your garden as leaves are dropping and that first frost hits. Getting lawns and flower beds ready for winter will make for a beautiful garden in the spring. Here is a list of things to do in your backyard in October. OCTOBER GARDEN TIPS: October Lawn Care [...]
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It is often said that planning is the most important part of a home improvement project, and this is never truer than for a home remodel. Because the kitchen is such an active, complex, multipurpose area, a remodel demands a great deal of foresight. Though a kitchen remodel may be at the top of your [...]
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Saving money with solar energy in the United States can be fairly simple if you set up the home to use the energy from the sun. There are several ways of achieving this from simple solutions such as bigger windows and using certain stones as flooring to installing solar panels on the roof or in [...]
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You spent your budget on hiring a landscaper to design and build a backyard pond for koi. It’s been a lifelong dream to be able to enjoy these jewels of the backyard and hand feed them on a nice summer day. Yet weeks after seeing your fishpond become a reality, you notice fish are starting [...]
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The Hibiscus plant is an interest one. Not only will some varieties add great beauty to your garden, but some varieties also extra bang for the buck by offering other benefits as well. It is said that the flowers from the hibiscus offers certain health benefits. There are Islanders in the South Pacific that drink [...]
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Several years ago, as I anxiously awaited the running of the Belmont and the destiny of War Emblem, the Triple Crown contender, it was not the fastest horse that ultimately captured my imagination but the slow and sure lifestyle of the Eastern box turtle. I caught a glimpse of the Eastern Box female in my [...]
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Hardy chrysanthemums are among the most popular and important garden flowers because of the long, colorful show they put on in late summer and fall. By choosing carefully from the hundreds of varieties, the gardener can have mums blooming from mid-August to heavy frost. They can be grown in containers if fed and watered carefully. [...]
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When my oldest son, Andy, was about three years old, I remember offering him the choice of one or two cookies for a snack. Being the clever and precocious child that he was, he said he wanted three cookies. I told him that wasn’t an option. As a grown man now–a healthy, slim adult, gratefully–he [...]
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September is a great time to work in your garden. Getting lawns and flower beds ready for winter will make for a beautiful garden in the spring. And the weather is usually cooperative as well. Here is a list of things to do in your backyard in September. Lawn Finish planting or reseeding lawns [...]
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Has it ever happened to you? When you really can’t find any walking space in your garage or in what used to be a guest room and is now a storage room? Let’s face it people, as human beings we like to stick to material things, we like keeping stuff, no matter its significance, they [...]
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As we age, we take carry on greater responsibilities, especially if we decide to grow a family, or purchase our own personal property. One of those great responsibilities is protecting our home and loved ones. There is no such thing as being “too careful” with what we value the most, especially if we don’t know [...]
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Its late summer and your container garden is not looking very good. The summer heat has taken its toll and some of the plants have stopped flowering. You could pull all of the plants out and replant the entire flower pot or you can rejuvenate the container garden using only a few new plants and leaving [...]
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In this bumpy economy, many people have turned to home remodeling and improvements rather than moving. Combining the practicality of a greenhouse and the charm of a sunroom, home conservatories are becoming a popular choice for homeowners seeking to update and improve their living space. History of Conservatories Conservatories were born when northern European explorers [...]
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