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How to Revitalize Your Perennials
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How to Revitalize Your Perennials

Now is the ideal time to rejuvenate your overgrown or neglected perennial flower bed—after the plants have sprouted but before…

Grow Your Own Rhubarb
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Grow Your Own Rhubarb

Those ruby-red stalks of rhubarb can be expensive and hard to find. Fortunately, you can grow your own. Pick the…

How to Prune Your Flowering Shrubs
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How to Prune Your Flowering Shrubs

A shrub covered with blooms in spring or early summer is a happy sight—but once the show passes, we may…

Finding a New Home for Your Old Books
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Finding a New Home for Your Old Books

Here are some ways to give old books a new life while clearing them out of yours… First step: Figure…

How to Sell Your Estate Jewelry
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How to Sell Your Estate Jewelry

For whatever reason, you might have ended up with some unwanted jewelry. Perhaps you are tired of the piece…inherited something…

How to Prepare Your Evergreens for Winter
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How to Prepare Your Evergreens for Winter

Winter can be stressful for the evergreens in our home landscapes…but not for the reason you might think. Spruces, pines,…

Not a Ban …a Choice
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Not a Ban …a Choice

In college, I was required to read The Canterbury Tales. I didn’t love it, but that doesn’t mean I think…

Vintage Watches Worth Watching
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Vintage Watches Worth Watching

There might be a fortune sitting in your sock drawer—a watch that you purchased new for less than $300 in…

Not Just for Bookworms
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Not Just for Bookworms

You might not think to include libraries on the list of sights to see when on vacation, but these “temples…

Secrets of the World’s Greatest Negotiator
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Secrets of the World’s Greatest Negotiator

One of the big challenges now that pandemic restrictions are mostly gone is dealing with people again. Isolation during COVID…

How to Break Your Digital Addiction
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How to Break Your Digital Addiction

Are you spending far too much time scrolling through posts on Facebook and Instagram? Sending out tweets on Twitter? Watching…

Free Alternatives to Netflix
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Free Alternatives to Netflix

Netflix and Amazon Prime increased their prices this year…yet many subscribers complain that they can’t find much to watch. But…

Where to Shop for Spring-Flowering Bulbs
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Where to Shop for Spring-Flowering Bulbs

Fall bulb-planting time is almost here. You can order from specialists now…or wait until autumn arrives and get your bulbs…

How to Have a Beautiful Garden and a Happy Dog
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How to Have a Beautiful Garden and a Happy Dog

Is having a dog and having a beautiful garden at the same time impossible? It doesn’t have to be. Bottom…

How to Make Your Own Compost
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How to Make Your Own Compost

Composting turns yard waste and kitchen scraps into a crumbly soil-like material called humus. Adding this humus to your garden…