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A compost heap that has stopped working looks exactly like a compost heap that is working slowly. Both are a pile of stuff in the corner of the yard. The difference only shows up months later, when one of them has…
The instinct when something is chewing a plant is to find a bottle that lists that plant on the back. It is worth resisting for about ten minutes, partly because the diagnosis is often wrong and partly because broad-spectrum insecticides have…
The lawn is usually the most heavily managed part of a yard and the least healthy. It gets fed, treated, watered and cut more often than anything else, and it still thins out under the tree, goes to moss on the…
Garden tools fail in three places and only three: where the head meets the handle, somewhere along the handle, and at the working edge. Every question worth asking in a shop is about one of those three. None of it requires…