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Summer Caesar Balsamic Salad Recipe

Probably the best thing about working from home in the summertime is stepping outside at 11:45 am and picking cherry tomatoes off the vine and using them in a lunch salad. I like salads with a little
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How to Make a Mosquito Bucket

Controlling mosquitoes in your yard is easy when you make a mosquito bucket. Often called the Mosquito Bucket of Doom,
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Food

Cumin-Kissed Sweet Potato Soup Recipe

This story first appeared on my blogspot blog in June 2011. It’s hotter than H-E-double hockey sticks outside, and
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Food

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

This recipe first appeared on my blogspot blog in November 2012. My love of baking started early and truly at my
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A white mouth dayflower bloom in a garden

Garden

3 Sweet Native Flowers in My Garden

Summer is full of surprises in my landscape. Between the natives that I've planted and the ones already in the garden,
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Weed growing in crack in sidewalk

Garden

How to Control Weeds Without Using Chemicals

This story originally appeared in my local newspaper's Master Gardener column. They’re the enemies of every gardener:
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Incrediball hydrangea in a one-gallon pot in a garden

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How to Over-Summer New Plants

When you love plants like I do, people tend to give more of them to you. This is generally not a problem and is, in
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Red Knockout rose planted in garden

Garden

Growing Roses in My Garden

I grow roses in my garden, but I don't have what I think of as a "rose garden." You know, the formal paths lined with
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Cilantro blooms in a garden

Garden

Let Cilantro Go to Seed

Here's a short and simple tip for you: when cilantro is ready to bolt, let it. Cilantro is a cool season herb that
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Flowers in a summer border

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My First Fling: Memphis 2025

I've got Paul Simon's voice bouncing in my head this week. "I'm going to Graceland, Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee."
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