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National Gardening
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Top 10 Things to Do with Fall Leaves Fall leaves are like a big load of free organic fertilizer strewn about your yard. If those nutrients were bagged and sold, you'd pay money for them. In your yard, they're free -- except for the labor of gathering them |
| National Gardening |
Composting Q and A Starting a Compost Pile... Critters in Compost...Foul-Smelling Compost Pile... Adding Compost to a Perennial Garden... Speeding Decomposition... Planting Directly in Compost... Compost Quantity...Compost vs. Mulch... Materials to Compost... Sawdust in Compost Pile... |
National Gardening
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What's Your Composting Personality? Take our quiz ... become a better composter |
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Top 2 Ways to Compost Smart and Cut Your Organic Waste As a first step, pare down on paper products -- the largest single category of garbage. Then plan meals more carefully |
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Power Equipment 101 Whatever the lawn and garden task, turn the job into fun. |
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Turn Leaves into Gold These golden leaves can be turned into "black gold" for the garden. They make great soil-enriching compost or a protective mulch. |
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The Birds of Winter For a lively winter garden, make it bird friendly |
| This Old House |
Fire Pit Safety These tips will keep your friendly fire from becoming a raging inferno. |
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Compost Haste Turn food and lawn scraps into garden nourishment. |
| National Gardening |
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Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
| National Gardening |
Compost 101 One of the best natural fertilizers and soil builders is available free. You make it yourself and solve some environmental problems at the same time. |
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Fall Yard Chores Cleaning up your yard before winter blows in. |
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Professional Tree Removal Crashing through your roof is not the only hazard dead and diseased trees pose to your home -- they also steal water and light from the rest of your yard. |
The Family Room
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Potted Christmas Trees - Is It Worth It? Each holiday season, I think about getting a live, potted Christmas tree. I keep thinking that it would sure save a lot of money because we should be able to use it as a Christmas tree for a few years -- as long as I can keep it alive... |
Popular Mechanics
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How to Plant for Fall and Prepare Your Garden for Winter Planting a fall garden can be a rewarding effort and a great start to preparing your entire yard for winter's dormancy as the last head of lettuce is plucked. |
| National Gardening |
Fall Garden Cleanup Q and A Here are some questions we've received about fall cleanup in the garden, along with the answers given by our regional horticulture staff. |
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Back to Nature The greenest approach to landscaping returns a yard to its roots. |
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