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Lawn Care Autumn is a critical time to improve the health of your lawn. You can start by using organic methods to remove lawn weeds to minimize competition for available nutrients and water. Before applying fertilizer or other nutrients to your lawn, contact your local county extension office to perform a soil test to verify pH levels. To apply the right amount of nutrients or lime to your lawn, you must know the existing pH level and the availability of other essential soil nutrients....

About Pollination Pollination is the act of transferring grains of pollen containing reproductive cells between male and female flower parts. Of the hundreds of thousands of flowers in the world, including flowering shrubs and trees, more than 80 percent of them require assistance for pollination, whether it is help from an insect, bird, or mammal. Zoophily is the term used to describe pollination that is assisted by animals. Hummingbirds are important players in the process, particularly for tropical flowers in the New World....

To make it more fun, get your family and friends to help and have a special dinner or barbecue afterwards. If you really don’t see yourself doing a good job, it might be worth the investment to hire a professional cleaning service. Cleaning comes after de-cluttering, sp you should already have de-cluttered the home and now be ready to do a full cleaning, which is much easier to do after you’ve removed a good chunk of your belongings....

Celebrate the love of decorating and design—and the love of decorating quotes—with us. Home Decor Quotes “Have nothing in your home that you don’t know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” —William Morris"One should never be the oldest thing in one’s house." —Patsy Stone“Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.” —Billy Baldwin“Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world....

With a recirculating pump installed, the water in the hot water line is constantly recirculating back to the water heater, which means that it is always warm and ready for use. There are several different designs for such systems, but the instant hot water recirculating system we’ll show you here is possible to install in an existing system. Mechanism Unlike some other systems, this system requires no dedicated hot water loop, and it works through means of a circulating pump installed at the water heater and a check valve installed at the sink farthest away from the water heater....

Use a Tack Cloth to Clean the Surface A tack cloth is a very inexpensive painting tool that helps you clean the surface prior to painting or staining for flawless results. A beeswax-impregnated cheesecloth, tack cloth lightly pulls off sawdust, wood shavings, and all manner of debris from your surface. By using a tack cloth, you avoid applying a wet cloth to the surface. If you do not have a tack cloth, you may use a damp cloth, but make sure to squeeze it out thoroughly beforehand....

At The Spruce, we’re psyched about organization because we know how amazing it feels to live in a space that is clean, tidy, and uncluttered. That’s why we’re dedicating an entire week to helping you and your family get (and stay) organized. What Is Organization Week? Ever struggle to find something you swear you just saw five minutes ago? Or try and fail to locate a certain ingredient or cleaning spray you definitely picked up on your last run to the store?...

Plant Characteristics As trees go, this will be a small one in your landscaping for quite some time, assuming you buy a young sapling. It is a slow grower. So even though it may eventually attain a height of 25 to 30 feet (although it grows considerably taller in its native habitat) with a spread of about 15 to 20 feet, expect it to remain a much smaller specimen for many years....

Dollhouses are the perfect pretend environment for kiddos to create their own imaginary world. But there are so many options out there, it’s hard to figure out which one is actually worth the money. My husband and I let our kids play with the KidKraft Chelsea Doll Cottage. We tested its design, setup, and entertainment value. Read on to see if we think it’s worth the price. Setup: Time-consuming Setting up the KidKraft Chelsea Doll Cottage took a lot longer than we expected: 45 minutes (and a lot of patience)....

Lafuma is a French outdoors brand that sells a range of outdoor clothing, footwear, packs and furniture. To see if their zero-gravity chair delivered comfort and quality on par with its high price tag, I tested it over several weeks at my home and on the road. I assessed the chair’s comfort, durability and portability, as well as its aesthetics. Read on for my insights. Design: Luxury recliner in this category The price is probably the most prominent feature of this product since it’s about three times the cost of most of its competitors....

The primary concepts, or principles, of landscape design include: Unity (harmony)BalanceProportionTransition Unity, or harmony, describes a design that is cohesive. A unified landscape has a consistent, recognizable theme, and its various elements and spaces are tied together visually (with paths, plantings, walls, or other features). Balance describes the distribution of visual weight. A front yard that has a large tree on opposite sides of a house (creating a mirrored effect) has more balance than a yard with a overbearing tree on one side and a smattering of low shrubs on the other....