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Help your lawn thrive
Chicago Tribune reporterCooler weather brings a burst of energy to us and our grass. That makes late summer or early fall a great time to do a few things to help your lawn stay healthy or revive it if it's looking patchy and worn. Keeping the soil underneath a lawn healthy...Tags: Fencing, Public Employees, Government
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Tomato experiment ends with 8 cracked
Chicago Tribune reporterIt was like finally ending a bad marriage. I'd known for a long time it was a mistake. But I couldn't let go of the memory of the high hopes I'd started with. I had invested too much time and struggle (not to mention money) to cut my losses and walk...Tags: Plant Openings
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A fishy way to fertilize the garden
We all learned the same Thanksgiving story in grade school: The Indians taught the Pilgrims to plant corn, which kept the settlers from starving. The Indians' secret? Plant the seed corn with a fish head. Fish as fertilizer is making a comeback of sorts....Tags: Dan Aykroyd, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Thanksgiving, Seafood and Fishing Industry, iVillage Incorporated
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Plants are tall but a little short on being colorful
Special to the SentinelQuestion: Two bird of paradise plants came with our house. They are more than 7 feet tall and have white flowers. Are they missing some nutrient, or are the flowers supposed to be white? Answer: Guess what? You have a white bird of paradise plant....Tags: University of Florida, Orlando, Dietary Supplements, Health Treatments
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Plant profile: Pineapple
Special to the SentinelScientific name: Ananas comosus Growth habit: An evergreen upright clump forming perennial with arching leaves that grows to 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide. The leaves arise from a basal stem, are lancelike dark-green to blue-green, sometimes with spines,...Tags: Water Restrictions
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Brazil's Vale to spend $479 million on Peru mine
Brazilian mining company Vale broke ground Friday on a US$479 million phosphate mine in Peru, becoming the second Brazilian company to announce a major investment there this week. Vale's Bayovar mine, due to open in 2010 in the northern province of...Tags: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce
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Tips on keeping your pool blue
Home & Garden EditorWhen Midwesterner Ken Christensen came to Florida, he moved into a house with a pool and was baffled. Christensen, author of the Romantic America series of travel books that focused on romantic places to stay, was a creative guy. Chemistry was never...Tags: Melbourne, Disasters, Diseases, Cancer, Natural Disasters
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Garden Q & A: Ailing pygmy date, robellini and paurotis palms; troublesome Christmas palm roots; powdery mildew
My pygmy date palm is in poor health. The inner leaves are turning brown. I watered it sporadically due to Water restrictions. I bought the plant two years ago and until now it was fine. What is wrong? — Steve De Marco, Hollywood The palm has fatal...Tags: Public Holidays, Water Restrictions, Building Material, Boynton Beach, Cooper City
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Landscaping with love for the Chesapeake Bay
Just east of the arched bridge on Main Street in Ellicott City, a left turn onto meandering Oella Avenue leads to a hairpin left onto Race Road, which dead-ends at Lisa and Tom Baum's driveway.
Tucked among the hydrangea bushes there, a small blue sign...Tags: Botany, Hobbies, Natural Science, Patapsco, Ellicott City
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Public Enemy No. 1? The great grass debate
Special to The TimesIt's just grass, but don't tell Sheldon Lodmer, for whom the sight of a well-kept lawn borders on the transcendental. "It's very peaceful. It reminds me of openness and cleanness," says Lodmer, whose home in the hills above Malibu's Zuma Beach is...Tags: John Marshall, Water Restrictions, Botany, Natural Resource Industry, MySpace
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Plant profile: Bush daisy
Special to the SentinelScientific name: Euryops pectinatus Growth habit: An evergreen perennial with a rounded shape growing to 24 inches tall and 18 inches wide. The leaves are medium to gray green, deeply toothed and oblong in shape growing to 3 inches long and one-third...Tags: Gardening
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Pompano Beach recycler gives food waste second life
South Florida Sun-SentinelOne South Florida company is attempting to turn food trash into treasure through a partnership with Publix Super Markets Inc. How? Organic Recovery of Pompano Beach is converting the grocer's food waste into a liquid plant food for farmland, crops and...Tags: Publix Super Markets Incorporated, Charlie Crist, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Beach Vacations
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