Home and Garden

Growing Onions
Growing onions takes patience, since all the action takes place under ground. If you can provide a rich soil and a full day of sun, you can grow a good sized harvest of onions for eating fresh and storing for later. And as with most fresh vegetables, onions from the garden will have far more flavor than onions from the produce aisle. Home grown onions can be more pungent too. Here are some tips for choosing and growing the right onions for your home garden.

Tomato Blossom Drop
Blossom drop is a common tomato growing problem that can be extremely frustrating to the home gardener. Otherwise healthy looking tomato plants set flower blossoms, only to have them dry up and fall off the plant before a fruit is formed. Blossom drop can be attributed to several causes, most often related to either temperature and / or stress.

Growing Kale
Growing kale is an easy and very rewarding crop for the home gardener. This cooking green is as beautiful to look at as it is tasty to eat and it attracts very few pests or problems. The secret to growing great kale is cool temperatures and plenty of water. Here’s how to have your best crop ever.

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Patio Garden Design
Gardening on your patio or terrace creates an extension of your home. An outdoor room that serves the dual purpose of being an outdoor room without walls and a place to indulge in gardening. A patio garden is limited only by your aspirations. Designing a garden on or around your patio or terrace can create a place to enjoy and entertain or a place to indulge your green thumb on a smaller scale.

Long Island
Home and garden tours in the city, around the region and across the country.

Eggplant
Eggplants are sun and heat loving vegetables, in the same family as tomatoes, peppers and potatoes. Eggplant actually does come in a small, white egg-shaped variety. Most Americans have never seen one, so the name seems inappropriate. There is actually a great variety of eggplants, many much easier to grow in the home vegetable garden than the large, oblong, purple varieties we are used to.

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Growing Winter Squash - Winter Squash is More Than Pumpkins
Many winter squash varieties are good choices for the home vegetable garden.

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New Jersey
Home and garden tours in the city, around the region and across the country.

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Benefits of Home Canning
Home canning is a traditional skill with outstanding applications for today. Home canning enables you to preserve the great taste and nutritional value of your backyard garden or locally grown foods, reduce your exposure to pesticides and other chemicals, and increase your sense of self-reliance. Find out how easy it is to get started.

Shopping With Kelly Wearstler: Shopping for Hard-to-Find Design Books With Kelly Wearstler
Kelly Wearstler, who designs resorts, residences and home furnishings and accessories, browsed her favorite design bookstore in Los Angeles for ideas and inspiration.

Growing Garlic
Garlic is very easy to grow in the home garden. There are hundreds of garlic varieties and the only way you are gong to get to taste them is if you grow them yourself. Read on to learn what types of garlic to grow and how to grow and store your garlic.

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Tomato Problems - Tomato Disea
There are many diseases that affect tomatoes. Tomato diseases are often weather dependent and can spread rapidly. Here are some common tomato diseases, their symptoms and what to do if tomato diseases threaten your home vegetable garden.

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Two eco-celebrities vie for greenest

On a tree-lined corner of Los Angeles filled with modest homes, flower gardens and neighbors who chat across back fences, two wiry celebrities are engaged in a green grudge match.

Tomato Blossom Drop
Blossom drop is a common tomato growing problem that can be extremely frustrating to the home gardener. Otherwise healthy looking tomato plants set flower blossoms, only to have them dry up and fall off the plant before a fruit is formed. Blossom drop can be attributed to several causes, most often related to either temperature and / or stress.

Photo Tour of TALIESIN WEST - The main studio and sunken garden
Join us on this photo tour of Taliesin West, the Arizona home and workshop of Frank Lloyd Wright and his students. Shown here: The main studio and sunken garden

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Eggplant
Eggplants are sun and heat loving vegetables, in the same family as tomatoes, peppers and potatoes. Eggplant actually does come in a small, white egg-shaped variety. Most Americans have never seen one, so the name seems inappropriate. There is actually a great variety of eggplants, many much easier to grow in the home vegetable garden than the large, oblong, purple varieties we are used to.

Growing Garlic
Garlic is very easy to grow in the home garden. There are hundreds of garlic varieties and the only way you are gong to get to taste them is if you grow them yourself. Read on to learn what types of garlic to grow and how to grow and store your garlic.

Patio Garden Design
Gardening on your patio or terrace creates an extension of your home. An outdoor room that serves the dual purpose of being an outdoor room without walls and a place to indulge in gardening. A patio garden is limited only by your aspirations. Designing a garden on or around your patio or terrace can create a place to enjoy and entertain or a place to indulge your green thumb on a smaller scale.

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Growing Kale
Growing kale is an easy and very rewarding crop for the home gardener. This cooking green is as beautiful to look at as it is tasty to eat and it attracts very few pests or problems. The secret to growing great kale is cool temperatures and plenty of water. Here’s how to have your best crop ever.

New Jersey
Home and garden tours in the city, around the region and across the country.

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4-Step Pruning Plan
Taking care of small trees and shrubs by pruning is pretty simple if you follow a few time-tested rules and take advantage of new tools that cut quickly and cleanly. If only all home improvement projects were as straightforward.

SmVegetableGarden
You don’t need a farm to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits. You don’t really even need a garden. Plant breeders know that after taste, home gardeners want a high yield in a small space. So they’ve been developing more varieties that can grow in a small foot print or even live in containers all year long.

Liberty 77, Mystics 56: 19-1 Surge Lifts Liberty Past Mystics
The Liberty moved three games above .500 for the first time since it was 6-3 last year, and won its fifth straight at home to improve to 8-2 at Madison Square Garden.

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