Home and Garden

The Fix: Job Gremlins and the Contract
Any home improvement job should account for the big unknown: a change of plans.

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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.

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.

Baby, You’re Home
A growing number of women have been opting to give birth in the intimate and familiar surroundings of home — even in small New York City apartments.

web admin :: Nov.18.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

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.

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.

Growing Asparagus
Asparagus is one of the few perennial plants for the home vegetable garden. Plant it once and it keeps on growing. There is some up front work to be done by the vegetable gardener, before you can enjoy an asparagus harvest, but a well-established asparagus bed can produce for decades. Here are some tips for growing great asparagus plants.

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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.

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.

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.

web admin :: Nov.16.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

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.

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.

How to Grow Potatoes
Growing potatoes in the home garden can be easy, if you learn to avoid the pest and disease problems. Potatoes are one of those mystery crops that develop out of sight, underground. You never really know how you’re doing until you harvest - and then it’s too late. Here are the basics on how to grow potatoes.

web admin :: Nov.15.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

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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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.

web admin :: Nov.13.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

How to Grow Potatoes
Growing potatoes in the home garden can be easy, if you learn to avoid the pest and disease problems. Potatoes are one of those mystery crops that develop out of sight, underground. You never really know how you’re doing until you harvest - and then it’s too late. Here are the basics on how to grow potatoes.

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.

web admin :: Nov.12.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Growing Spinach
Leafy vegetables always taste better fresh from the garden. Spinach, like lettuce, grows best in the cool weather of spring and fall. Spinach also grows extremely quickly, which means you don’t have to wait long to enjoy it, but you’ll also have to keep planting new spinach to extend the harvest. Getting spinach to grow is easy. Keeping your spinach growing takes some finesse. Tips for growing spinach in the home 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.

web admin :: Nov.11.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

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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