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Harnessing Energy
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If the last few days of this East Coast heatwave hasn’t made you think about solar or wind power options for energy, then nothing will. Imagine if we could harness the sun for the past few days and convert that energy into savings in our bank account.

How to Grow Vegetables That Like Heat in a Garden
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Gardeners divide vegetables into two categories: cool-season vegetables, such as broccoli, lettuce, spinach and carrots, and warm-season vegetables, such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and melons. Most warm-season vegetables originated in... Recent

Garden Calendar: fall vegetables, exploring landscape styles
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Submit calendar information at least 14 days before the Thursday publication date to garden@dallasnews.com. FALL VEGETABLES: Learn how to prepare soil for fall planting. 10 a.m. Saturday. Covington's Nursery, 5518 Liberty Grove Road, Rowlett. Free.

How to stop deer grazing your garden
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A large picture here a couple of weeks ago set some of you off, inevitably. I have addressed the deer problem in the past - recommending, ultimately, that the only thing that keeps deer out is tall fencing - two tall parallel fences, actually, with a gap

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2010: our future is very rosy
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Comments The nation's favourite flower is officially the rose - and Thirteen rose growers gather together under one marquee, with exhibits themed around Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. (You may see characters in costumes wafting around, with

Hampton Palace Court Flower Show 2010: James Callicott, a bright young thing
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Comments His nearest rival, Jack Dunkley, 16, is now a veteran on his second show garden. Bob Sweet, organiser of RHS Shows, has a few theories as to why Hampton Court attracts such young design talent: "Hampton is the coolest event in the gardening

Cotinus 'Grace' shrub behaving badly
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This week Jenny McGill's Cotinus 'Grace' is the culprit - one of the most magnificent of the smoke bushes, with huge, translucent copper-red leaves and kaleidoscopic autumn colour, it is supposed to produce a mass of fluffy flowers about now that give

Use fake bird of prey to ward pigeons
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I am suffering from a serious plague of wood pigeons: their guano fouls the lawn under trees where my grandchildren play and also clogs up the pebble fountain. I have even received a direct hit while weeding. Apart from wholesale slaughter, is there any

Perennial stock - what now?
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Two years ago, on your recommendation, I acquired a small plant of a white perennial stock. It has grown well into a shrub-like thing, with its grey, leafy rosettes looking like a series of mad Catherine wheels, each adorned with gorgeous scented flowers

Pittsburgh group contributes recipes to the book "A White House Garden Cookbook: Healthy Ideas From the First Family for Your Family"
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Grow Pittsburgh is one of several community gardening groups around the country to contribute recipes to the new 'A White House Garden Cookbook: Healthy Ideas From the First Family for Your Family.' The $24.95 paperback is, as it notes up front, not

Balaklava/Special feature - Special feature: Home and Garden
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Contrary to the fairy tale, Snowtown couple Milton and Ruth Good moved from a big stone house to a straw house, but it wasn’t a result of any huffing and puffing.“It’s not true that two little piggies live here,” Milton joked.It may come as a

Undo Summer Stains
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Biggest Challenges 1. Grass stains 2. Condiment spills (mustard, ketchup) 3. Fresh-berry spots 4. Sunscreen streaks Tools You'll Use Fastest Fixes 1. Win the turf war. When gardening, picnicking, or a backyard game of badminton leaves you seeing green,

Back-to-School Prep
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There's the list of supplies the school sends you; then there's what your kid really needs. Here's how to get off to a smart start - and keep things organized all year. <pGet more tips to prep for the school year loading.. Share Lighten Up back to

Metal paint from Hammerite
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Get your pots looking as good as new with an easy to use metal paint After a year of battling the elements it's not surprising that our garden containers can look a little worse for wear by now. So before you spend time planting them up, refresh your

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2010: Building a sanctuary for stress sufferers
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A bench is somewhere to sit with a good view - right? Not if you are a traumatised soldier: for them it's a lookout post that must be positioned so the enemy can't creep up. A touch of red is a good way to lift a border. Correct? No, it's a colour that

BDXL Gets Blu-ray Disc Association Approval
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The Blu-ray Disc Association has finally approved the specifications for BDXL. What is BDXL, you ask? BDXL is a new recordable Blu-ray Disc that increases current maximum Blu-ray Disc storage capacity of 50GB (25BG per layer) to a maximum of 128GB

Eutaw Place gardens: the plantings
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Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Gene Sweeney The landscape plan for the restoration of the Eutaw Place median gardens in Baltimore City was designed by Carlo VanGrieken, who is an active member of the Bolton Hill Garden Club, which executed the

Art house: Christopher Boutlier's edgy aesthetic
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As a 16-year-old boarding school student, Christopher Boutlier spent hours in front of J.M.W. Turner's 'Slave Ship' in Atlanta's High Museum of Art, captivated by the violence and beauty of the famed Victorian seascape. Those hours were a turning point

More Front Doors!
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They say it's best not to judge a book by its cover, but let's face it, every now and then we all do. I particularly fall into this trap when it comes to the outside of homes. A house with a beautiful front door makes me think there are likely some

How to keep the children
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During Family Weekend at the , July 10-11, children can enjoy the show for free. Highlights include: Dirtgirlworld CBeebies will be coming to the show with Dirtgirlworld, to let younger children discover that getting to grips with nature can be fun.

Win a deck chair
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The Daily Telegraph, official partner to the , is hosting the Long Water Refreshment areas where visitors can sit, eat and relax. You'll also have a chance to enter a prize draw to win one of four limited edition designer deck chairs. In summer 2006, the

Gardening calendar: July
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You'd be mad to go on holiday in July. It's like a music festival out in the garden, with a dozen different bands pumping out the decibels at the same time. Borders and containers are bursting with blooms, while you'll have to eat fast - and greedily -

Gardening calendar: July 2010 week 4
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KEEP KIDS BUSY PLANT PEAS Children who hate veg love peas. Get them to sow a fast-maturing early variety, such as Feltham First, as a holiday project, for harvest before they go back to school. COLLECT SEED They will love stalking the ripening seedpods

Gardening calendar: July 2010 week 3
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KITCHEN GARDEN 1 STOP outdoor tomatoes, pinching off the tip of the stem to divert their energies into fruiting. With indoor varieties, do not let the compost dry out or the tomatoes may suffer from blossom end rot. Also, don't splash the fruit. 2

Gardening calendar: July 2010 week 2
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BORDER PATROL 1 CAMELLIAS need water now as the flower buds form - but not from the tap, if possible, as they hate calcium. Stop feeding plants at the end of the month. 2 PINKS make easy cuttings. Snip off a non-flowering shoot, then trim below a leaf

Gardening calendar: July 2010 week 1
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RED AND READY 1 PICKING Summer-fruiting raspberries will soon be ready to eat. Only pick the deepest red fruit as they will not ripen off the cane and don't pile them in your bowl too deep or the lowest layer will turn to coulis. 2 EATING Raspberries are