3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (994+ words) Home » Home & Living Those little parlors, closed-off dining rooms, tiny bedrooms, pantries, and narrow hallways weren’t necessarily poor design. In many old houses, walls and doors served a practical purpose. Walk through a house built 100, 150, or 200 years ago and one…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (271+ words) When tomato season comes to an end, most gardeners instinctively grab the plants by the stem and pull them straight out of the ground. But there may be a better way to clean up your garden that you will see…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (506+ words) There’s a moment every September when the air has that first hint of crispness and suddenly every garden center in town is overflowing with cushiony domes of orange, burgundy, and gold. That’s mum season — and it might just be the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1371+ words) Seeing spiderwebs everywhere in August and September? There’s a reason. Late summer is prime spider season, when many orb-weaving spiders reach adulthood and their large, intricate webs suddenly become impossible to miss. Walk outside on a late-August morning and you…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (753+ words) Late August is here, and you may have noticed there aren’t quite as many hummingbirds zipping around the yard as there were a few weeks ago. That doesn’t mean it’s time to put the feeder away. Hummingbirds know when it’s…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (546+ words) A garden bed planted with only one crop is a gamble. Let one bug or fungus take hold, and you could lose the whole row. Companion planting is the old-fashioned fix — tucking marigolds between rows of tomatoes and other vegetables....

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (147+ words) These large, bright-green caterpillars with white V-shaped markings and a distinctive “horn” on the rear end can strip a tomato plant overnight. They are the larvae of the five-spotted hawk moth and are masters of camouflage. How to find and…...