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War on garden pests 'could lead to designer pesticides' scientists claim
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Designer pesticides could be a step closer, after scientists claimed they had discovered the genetic code against major garden and agricultural pests that have spread plant viruses around the world. Published: 7:00AM BST 09 Sep 2009 Scientists say they

Painting with Chocolate!
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Warm up your home this autumn with scrumptious paint shades of chocolate. From milk chocolate to dark tones, there is a range of shades to suit your tastes! Perfect for a sensuous theme in the bedroom, or a cosy atmosphere in the living room. Chocolate

Make A Fall Wreath with Mums
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Welcome your friends and the season with our fun fall wreath. When fall winds start to blow and the air becomes crisp and clear, this can be a really easy and fun project to do. The Fall Wreath with Mums project is so simple to make that you'll be done

Beekeeping diary: End of the season
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Ian Douglas packs up his beekeeping kit for the autumn. The bees making their way around the queen excluder Photo: Ian Douglas The two kilos of sugar in the form of sticky syrup that I fed to the bees last week has disappeared and I'll be filling the

BUY OF THE DAY: Graphic wall stickers from Supernice
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A great alternative to modern wallpaper I?ve just moved into a new flat in London, and as we all know, renting can somewhat restrict your creative flare! Well, if like me you don?t want to let that hold you back, how about adorning your walls with

Stop wasting 16,000 gallons of water per year waiting for it to get hot!
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One of the last frontiers of creature comforts we continue to pursue is that of on-demand hot water. Sure you can use a point of use tankless water heater under the sink for one location or invest thousand of dollars in a whole house tankless water

Get Ready to Make Your Own Fall Decorations
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Decorating for fall is actually quite easy. You don't have to go out and invest in a lot of money in materials to put together a really lovely seasonal decoration for fall. Mother Nature has provided almost everything you need to make a fall wreath, fall

A modern garden in America's midwest
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Innovation has helped to put Columbus, Indiana, on the map, reports Tim Richardson. The Miller House is surrounded on three sides by an ivy 'moat'. Photo: Andrea Jones In many ways Columbus, Indiana, is an ordinary Midwestern town, its main street lined

Allan and Howard's perfect Painted Mountain corn
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Saturday, 6am. Probably the last very early morning visit of the year. It is, after all, barely light, but I have an urge to be at the plot as the sun comes up. The Van Gogh sunflowers lighten the gloom. I potter round picking salad leaves for lunch,

Question of the Week - What is Blu-ray?
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Although DVD is the most successful home entertainment product in history, ever since it was introduced in 1997, it lacks true high definition playback and recording capability. Two competing camps came up with a solution: Blu-ray and HD-DVD. However,

UK Hits Samsung For Misleading "LED" TV Ads
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A lot of 'techie' terms get bounced around in advertisements to hype consumer electronics products. The latest case in point is the term 'LED TV'. However, there is no such thing in the consumer market as an 'LED TV'. All consumer-targeted TVs using LED

Panasonic Takes Home Theater 3D on the Road
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Although 3D is gaining wide acceptance with moviegoers, the lack of a standardized 3D system for home use is a continuing stumbling block. In an effort to accelerate the approval of a home 3D standard, Panasonic is taking its 3D technology on a road trip

Rating Bay Area nurseries
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Your local nursery can be a go-to resource for plants, garden supplies and valuable advice. But which nurseries will bring the most green to your garden - and leave some in your wallet, too? To find the best options, Bay Area Consumers' Checkbook and

Bold whimsy
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Interior designer Melodie Rubin seems to have a boundless amount of energy. Pregnant with her first child, she continues to work on projects, including one with special significance: her new home on the Peninsula. Rubin launched her firm, House of Ruby

Plus: Coat stands make for a neater look
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The clothes piled on the floor make your home seem like a multicolored molehill. And with fall fast approaching, bulky coats and jackets threaten to send your wardrobe through the roof. We say: It's time to think ahead. Coat stands may seem quaint, but

Putting the 'great' in outdoors
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The American Institute of Architects says Americans are making their outside spaces more and more like their inside ones, and nowhere is the trend more endemic than California, with its temperate climate. Outdoor living rooms, kitchens and other

Shadows on the Wall: Home Decor Chic
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In preparation for cooler temperatures and autumnal moods, we have some decorating ideas from Troy Beasley and Stephanie Henley of Beasley & Henley Interior Design. Explore easy ways to introduce deep, moody colors into the home by using shades of

Saving gardens, one seed at a time
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Last summer, Monica Antonio planted seeds she'd saved from supermarket tomatoes, carefully tended the plants and dreamed of fat juicy fruit, ripe for a salad or a little fresh salsa. But that never happened. Antonio's tomatoes grew deformed and

September gardening tasks
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September is often the hottest month of the year along Northern California's coast, but you should still bypass summer vegetables and summer-flowering annuals, even if they are available in nurseries. Permanent landscape plants, such as trees and shrubs,

Coat stands make for a neater look
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The clothes piled on the floor make your home seem like a multicolored molehill. And with fall fast approaching, bulky coats and jackets threaten to send your wardrobe through the roof. We say: It's time to think ahead. Coat stands may seem quaint, but

Melodie Rubin thinks outside of the catalog
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Interior designer Melodie Rubin seems to have a boundless amount of energy. Pregnant with her first child, she continues to work on projects, including one with special significance: her new home on the Peninsula. Rubin launched her firm, House of Ruby

Hand-painted wallpaper with a modern touch
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San Francisco faux painter Shirley Robinson's new line of sumptuous hand-painted wallpaper is a cross between 18th century one-of-a-kind wall finishes and Andy Warhol's 1960s silk-screen mass-produced art. 'In the 18th century, silk and paper wall

'The Dry Gardening Handbook: Plants and Practices for a Changing Climate' by Olivier Filippi
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Coffee table books on gardening are generally useless, but here's a beauty queen with brains. "The Dry Gardening Handbook: Plants and Practices for a Changing Climate" by a Frenchman, Olivier Filippi, betrays an understandable fondness for the dry plants

Snooping around: Rural, urban or renovation
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In town: Truro, Cornwall. This first-floor contemporary apartment is on the banks of the river Truro. It offers watery chic with views from the roof terrace and balcony. Wall-to-floor windows bring the river almost into the living area, there are up to

Why patchwork quilting is staging a comeback
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Perri Lewis finds out that creating a patchwork quilt is as much about capturing happy memories as making a pretty bedspread When knitting became the Thing To Do a couple of years ago, part of its appeal was its portability: you could do it on the bus or

Samsung BD-P3600 Blu-Ray Disc Player - Product of the Week
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The Samsung BD-P3600 is a cutting edge Blu-ray Disc player. First off, it plays Blu-ray Discs at full 1080p/60 or 1080p/24 resolution, provides bitstream output for both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD via its HDMI 1.3a output, and is playback compatible with

How To Change the Look of a Room for Seasonal Decor
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You can give any room a fresh seasonal decor by making some changes in small ways. For example, it is easy to alternate two sets of covers for decorative pillows ? some for spring/summer and others for fall/winter. You can also order reversible drapery

Courgettes. And yet more courgettes...
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My raised beds are bursting with vegetables: time to make some chutney Harvest home: Elspeth Thompson's raised beds in summer. They are now bursting with veg Photo: ELSPETH THOMPSON On the top of the wood-burning stove is a pile of courgettes, arranged

Pumpkin patrol is a serious business
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There'll be trouble if my runner beans don't win this year, warns Matthew Appleby Comments 1 | Comment on this article Matthew Appleby inspects his so-far unvandalised pumpkin. It's showtime I see the poisoned dahlias and punctured pumpkins stories are

5 Tips for Storing Garden Tools
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These six tips for storing garden tools will help you keep your tools sharp. There are many tool organizers you can purchase to organize garden hand tools such as spades, shovels, hoes, rakes, clippers and weed removers. Tip #1 - Clean Before Storing