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Nature’s ways improve backyard gardening
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Book helps house hunters think logically
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Curved shower rod is tension-mounted
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- Tell the ‘Does It Work?’ team what you think about products - 1:02 PM
- Home and garden happenings — week of May 18 - 1:02 PM
- Ask Mary Beth: Ridding ornamental grass of weeds - 1:02 PM
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School garden will teach healthy eating from the ground up
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Steal this idea! Decorating inspiration from Designer ShowHouse 2013
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Garden featured on Bath home tour
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Bag clip closes large sacks
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Book covers upholstery basics
- Home and garden happenings — week of May 11
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Video shows how to remove bush honeysuckle
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Cheap tricks for Halloween
Few things are scarier than your Visa bill after a holiday spending spree.
But getting your ghoul on for Halloween doesn't need to cost an arm and a leg, even though you could recycle those severed body parts in a macabre display.
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Magazine lists 100 best home products
This Old House magazine is out with The TOH Top 100, its list of the 100 best new home products of the year.
A few of my faves:
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Get your mower runnin'
Lawn season is winding down, and leaf season is picking up.
Both of them involve your mower.
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Target + Neiman Marcus will get your gift list going
We can't all afford the fantasy gifts in the Neiman Marcus catalog, like a $100,000 chicken coop or a $150,000 vintage trailer outfitted as a bar.
But the Target + Neiman Marcus Holiday Collection? Heck, yeah.
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Pimp your pumpkin
Tired of the same old jack-o'-lantern? DIY Network has a how-to video on turning your pumpkin into a scary skull. Check it out.
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Garden cleanup prevents problems next year
It's time to clean up the garden, the folks at Buckeye Yard and Garden Line remind us.
The most recent issue of the newsletter from Ohio State University advises gardeners to clean out remaining weeds, particularly winter annuals such as chickweed and annual bluegrass. Remove and compost old vegetable plants, and be sure to get rid of any diseased plant parts from ornamental or food plants.
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Ikea to sell only LED lighting
Ikea is betting on the future of LED lighting.
The Swedish home-furnishings retailer has announced that LED is the only kind of lighting it will sell starting in 2016, according to a report in Illumination in Focus. It's also changing more than 1 million light sources in its stores to LED and other forms of highly efficient lighting, the report said.
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