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Why we should love our garden worms
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Bored children? get them to count worms as part of a national census of our wriggly friends Earth worms are nature's natural composters. Increase their numbers by a good thick mulch Photo: WRIGGLY WRIGGLERS If the summer holidays have reached that ''Mum,

Tomatoes
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Native to South America, the tomato was first domesticated by the Aztecs of Central Mexico around 1519-21. There are now around 7,500 varieties of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), which are close cousins of the tobacco plant, potatoes, aubergines and

Your garden: Welcome signs of spring
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Home » Lifestyle » Home & Garden Home & Garden | Your Garden Click photo to enlarge Blossoms on early-flowering camellias are a welcome sign of spring. Photo by Gillian Vine. What to do in your garden this week. Vegetables Gardeners can be

Laminate Flooring: Pros and Cons
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Laminate flooring has become a popular way to update the look of a home. It offers the look of hardwood or stone flooring, but without the expense and required maintenance. Laminate flooring usually is made from high-density fiber or wood particles, with

Mulching and irrigation
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Keep watering to a minimum with a good layer of mulch With the right choice of plants for your soil and situation, watering can be kept to a minimum. When you plant trees and shrubs, it can take two years for them to become established. Ensuring that

Native plants and grasses give Dallas city home a wild feel
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When landscape architect David Hocker walks across his Lawther Drive client's front lawn, he feels like tiptoeing for fear of disturbing the mourning doves, bees, butterflies, hummers and mockingbirds. No sooner than it developed last spring, the

Best plants for Dallas landscapes
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H.S. Stevens, former garden columnist for The Dallas Morning News, compiled a helpful list of 135 plants well-suited for North Central Texas growing conditions. Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) Big-tooth maple (Acer grandidentatum) Black walnut (Juglans

Sow garden seeds now for fall harvest
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Although we're still suffering through some of the worst heat of summer, it's time for fall vegetable gardening. If you want your own fall harvest, you must sow seeds now. Yes, it seems much too hot to plant anything. But the calendar can't wait for

Renovating an Industry
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The recession has prompted a makeover for interior designers, who must find a way to make design more accessible and less expensive for their customers.

Faded Glory: Polishing Flints Jewels
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While many neighborhoods in Flint, Mich., feel all but abandoned, in Carriage Town a group of persistent residents have restored dozens of Victorian-era houses. Member ID orE-Mail Address: Password: Remember me on this computer.

In Plain Sight, an Actors Hideout
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Property in Sag Harbor, N.Y., inherited from a great aunt and uncle, became the setting for a Manhattanite?s simple, secluded home.

Life as a Castaway
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The model and author India Hicks, who has made the Bahamas her home, shopped for accessories that create a beach resort feel, minus the pink flamingos.

Skulduggery in the undergrowth as greencollar crime blossoms
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At horticultural shows around the country, fraud, theft and murder are on the rise. Green-collar crime is growing faster than weeds. Award-winning gardener Richard Patewski, 57, from Newton Abbot, Devon had his prize winning Dahlias sprayed with

Holly House Makeover
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Decorating isn't part of Linda Meixner's job description. As the development director at a nonprofit organization for D.C. residents with mental disabilities, she works mostly on fundraising. But recently, Meixner pulled off her own version of an HGTV

A Modern Room for the Modern Baby
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Sorry, Winnie the Pooh. These days, parents are as likely to deck out Junior's nursery with the jolly old bear as they are to get matching Barney tattoos. 'Clients aren't doing themes. They're doing rooms that mimic the rest of their homes,' says Dana

High-Style Buys
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Teach your young ones high design with these products: Alvar Aalto children's chair is available in four heights and five colors ($385, http://www.kidonyc.com). Aunt Bucky's Granny Garden crib bumper set is colorful and whimsical ($225,

Where to Shop
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-- Daisy Baby. This boutique specializes in custom linens and furnishings. Choose from 15 lines of bedding, plus furniture that's contemporary (Nurseryworks, NettoCollection) or traditional (Bratt Decor). 4294 Del Ray Ave., Bethesda. 301-654-7477.

Home Theater Term of the Week - Plasma Television
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A Plasma television is a type of Flat Panel video display device. Plasma television technology is based loosely on the fluorescent lightbulb. The display itself consists of cells. Within each cell two glass panels are separated by a narrow gap in which

CBHD Overtakes Blu-ray In China
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While HD-DVD lost to Blu-ray Disc in the West for high definition dominance back in February 2008, it looks like the Chinese-modified version of HD-DVD, known as CBHD (China Blue High Definition) is outselling Blu-ray in China by a margin of 3 to 1. For

Pros and Cons of Hardwood Flooring
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Hardwood floors are one of the amenities that home buyers often look for when buying a house. However, the purchase and installation of this type of flooring can be pricey and its care and maintenance can be challenging. If you are debating whether to

Why English Heritage deserves praise
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English Heritage's garden restoration programme is bound to be a crowd-pleaser English Heritage's 3m restoration of the Elizabethan garden at Kennilworth Castle caused huge rows One would have thought that English Heritage would be reeling from shock

Hampton Court - sparks fly
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A debate over the RHS judging system raises the temperature in The Daily Telegraph Gardening Theatre Tim Richardson Published: 2:52PM BST 10 Jul 2009 Comments 6 | Comment on this article Tim Richardson, who took part in a heated debate in The Daily

Garden calendar
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Introduction to smallholding, 10.15am-1pm, Daylesford Organic Farm, Daylesford, Glos. Livestock breeds, organic tastings. Tickets 25 (01608 731700; www.daylesfordorganic.com). 22 August Chatsworth Horticultural and Produce show, 2pm, Cavendish Hall,

Property gallery: Trading up, trading down
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Trading up: Norfolk. The village of Castle Acre has its own copious seductions ? priory and castle ruins, a green and a river ? and this three-bedder is a suitably fetching perch within it. It's been Farrow and Balled inside and out, and has exposed

Guilt trip
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Seeking advice from more experience gardeners and allotment holders out there, or anyone with common sense as mine seems to be deserting me. You see, we're going away for just over a week from Saturday and concerned about the plot (and the pots on the

Beekeeping diary: staying away
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Ian Douglas thinks his bees are better off without him for a week. The hive, left, fending for itself Photo: Ian Douglas Bees are still wild animals, no matter how much we tend to them and try to make them work for us. This week, for the first time this

Character building
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By combining stone with water and ancient with modern elements, James Dyson has created an ambitious and beautiful terraced garden. Words by Tim Richardson. Pictures by Jerry Harpur Tim Richardson Published: 12:01AM BST 03 May 2003 For many English

Arachnophobia? There's (mostly) nothing to fear
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Q: Why are people so afraid of spiders? Basically, they are harmless and they eat insects. We should respect them. - H.K., Redwood City A: I totally agree with you. When I started in the bug business almost 40 years ago, I had a morbid fear of spiders. I

Garden supply stores rake in the sales
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Retail may be in a drought, but for many garden supply stores, it's been a green season in more ways than one. We're paying a lot more attention to beautifying our own backyards, perhaps because we're traveling less. Americans are spending about 20