Home and Garden

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.

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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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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Preserving Vegetables
How to preserve fruits and vegetables by drying, canning, pickling and making jams and jellies. Keep the freshness of the harvest by preserving your own garden vegetables at home. There’s a method safe and easy enough for everyone, as well as tips for success and recipe suggestions.

Currents | Q&A: Finding Musical Inspiration in the Ashes of a Home
Butch Walker, a music producer of acts like Avril Lavigne and Katy Perry, talks about the loss of his Malibu home to wildfires.

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Basil - Growing & Using
Basil is an easy to grow tender annual. The hardest thing about growing basil is choosing which varieties to grow. Give basil some sun and good soil and you can pick leaves daily all summer long. And picking the leaves is what will keep your basil producing for the whole season. Here are some suggestions for great basil varieties and how to grow basil in your home garden.

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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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After the House Is Gone
Inability to make mortgage payments is driving families to make difficult choices and forcing them to reconsider what home means.

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Cabbage & Kale
Cabbage and kale are among the hardiest and most nutritious vegetables a home gardener can grow. They are also very easy to grow, especially for home vegetable gardeners in cooler climates. Beautiful, in shades of pale yellow to wrinkled steel blue and ranging in flavor from sweet and crisp to tangy, cabbage and kale are versatile vegetables and there’s a variety suited to almost every garden.

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.

Seedlings to Spare? Time to Share
At the end of spring planting season I often think of the poem by Louise Bogan titled “Women,” which begins, “Women have no wilderness in them, /They are provident instead.” This comes to mind because all the female gardeners in my neighborhood, myself included, have spent those final weeks frantically finding homes for all our leftover seedlings.

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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.

Growing Tomatoes
Despite early worries about tomatoes being poisonous, tomatoes are now one of the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens. Widely adaptable and space efficient, a single tomato plants is able to produce 8 - 10 pounds of fruit. Tomatoes are heat lovers and will continue producing right through to the end of the growing season, if you provide them with these tomato growing basics.

Preserving Vegetables
How to preserve fruits and vegetables by drying, canning, pickling and making jams and jellies. Keep the freshness of the harvest by preserving your own garden vegetables at home. There’s a method safe and easy enough for everyone, as well as tips for success and recipe suggestions.

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Growing Tomatoes
Despite early worries about tomatoes being poisonous, tomatoes are now one of the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens. Widely adaptable and space efficient, a single tomato plants is able to produce 8 - 10 pounds of fruit. Tomatoes are heat lovers and will continue producing right through to the end of the growing season, if you provide them with these tomato growing basics.

Basil - Growing & Using
Basil is an easy to grow tender annual. The hardest thing about growing basil is choosing which varieties to grow. Give basil some sun and good soil and you can pick leaves daily all summer long. And picking the leaves is what will keep your basil producing for the whole season. Here are some suggestions for great basil varieties and how to grow basil in your home garden.

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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.

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.

Growing Tomatoes
Despite early worries about tomatoes being poisonous, tomatoes are now one of the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens. Widely adaptable and space efficient, a single tomato plants is able to produce 8 - 10 pounds of fruit. Tomatoes are heat lovers and will continue producing right through to the end of the growing season, if you provide them with these tomato growing basics.

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