What To Do

ASK MARY BETH

• Ask Mary Beth: Removing melted plastic from an oven
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Removing Krazy Glue
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Controlling silverfish
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Repairing a DVD
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Removing hard-water stains from Formica
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Don’t microwave melamine dishes
  
• Ask Mary Beth: More on zipper repair
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Eliminating refrigerator odor
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Who can replace a change purse zipper?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Dish made only for microwave use
  
• Ask Mary Beth: How to hang pleated draperies from a curtain rod
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Where to have a doll repaired
  
• Ask Mary Beth: choosing paint colors
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Cleaning wood furniture
  
• Ask Mary Beth: cleaning an enameled sink
  
• Ask Mary Beth: where to overwinter plants
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Cleaning painted cabinets
  
• Ask Mary Beth: how to paint Styrofoam
  
• Ask Mary Beth: removing butter spots from myrtlewood bowl
  
• Ask Mary Beth: removing hardwood floor spots
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Removing odor of fuel oil
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Dealing with window mold
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Plain water best for Christmas trees
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Removing a white spot from a table
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Can scratches be removed from stainless steel?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Why does rhododendron bloom out of season?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: What are these huge mushrooms?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: How can I tell which light bulb to use?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Taming a weedy area
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Maintaining wine glasses
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Is a sweet potato vine tuber edible?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Composting cat litter
  
• Ask Mary Beth: What’s speckling my siding?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: How to dispose of old propane tank
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Removing rust stains from marble
  
• Ask Mary Beth: What’s killing my zucchini plants?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Polishing silver plate
  
• Corrections and Clarifications
  
• Ask Mary Beth: What’s causing tomatoes to rot?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: When to harvest basil, lavender
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Feeding butterflies
  
• Ask Mary Beth: What’s causing rust in a toilet bowl?
  
• Ask Mary Beth: cleaning a wicker lamp
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Ill-timed pruning ruins lilac bloom
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Hosta virus has no cure
  
• Ask Mary Beth: Keeping cats away