Garden Guru: Thomas Ogren
Before Thomas Ogren wrote Allergy-Free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping, he wasn't particularly sympathetic to those who suffer from allergies, including his wife and other family members. "I had read that allergies were ... [... more]
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Ease Knee Strain Like a Major Leaguer
Looking for a gift for an avid gardener who has everything, including sore knees? Planting bulbs and setting transplants, weeding and harvesting -- all that standing up and squatting down puts strain on the knee joints. Baseball catchers have a ... [... more]
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Super-Nutritious Vegetables
To all the reasons you might choose one vegetable variety over another--appearance, flavor, yield, pest resistance, or regional adaptation--now you can add enhanced nutrition. The vegetables you'll read about here aren't just good for you. ... [... more]
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Top FAQs about Daffodils
Mention the word daffodil and most people picture a sunny yellow flower brightening an otherwise dreary spring landscape. And while the large-flowered, single trumpeted, yellow daffodil remains popular, daffodils are now available in an ... [... more]
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A Tomato a Day May Keep the Doctor Away
Summer means fresh tomatoes, but the tomato has not always held its lofty position as queen of the vegetable garden. At one time they were considered poisonous, then they were touted as an aphrodisiac. The French even adorned them with the name ... [... more]
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by Lynn Grieger
Most of us need more calcium in our diets, especially as we age. In fact, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, one in two women and one in eight men over the age of 50 suffer from osteoporosis, a porous and brittle bone condition ... [... more]
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All About Watermelons
There is nothing that says "summertime" like fresh watermelon. If you're looking for more ways to use watermelons in recipes, as decorations, or in activities with your kids, check out the Watermelon Promotion Board Web site. It's loaded with .. [... more]
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Berries Curb Cancer
There's plenty of reason to include berries in your garden plans for the coming year. Raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, and muscadine grapes appear to have cancer-fighting potential. According to researchers at Clemson ... [... more]
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Broccoli to the Rescue for Stomach Ulcers
Stomach ulcers affect one out of every eight of us in the US, and common dietary recommendations for easing the pain include reducing consumption of alcohol, coffee, fatty and spicy foods, and gas-producing foods, such as broccoli. Now, in one of ... [... more]
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Bountiful Fall Spinach
There's nothing better than the taste of home-grown spinach. Unfortunately, many gardeners who plant in spring are disappointed by meager harvests of small, tough leaves from plants that bolt (go quickly to the flowering stage) before producing ... [... more]
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Vegetable and Bean Harvest Soup
When I come in from working in the garden on a crisp fall afternoon, nothing is more satisfying than the smell of bread rising and soup simmering on the stove -- particularly if that soup is made from vegetables I've grown and harvested. I like ... [... more]
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Beware Toxic Compost
Herbicide products containing clopyralid have been used by the lawn-care industry for more than 15 years. The chemical is extremely effective against persistent weeds, such as dandelion, yellow starthistle, and Canada thistle. For the past 2 ... [... more]
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