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If you are looking for something to naturalize a sloping home landscape, consider planting crown vetch for a natural backyard. While some may think of it as merely a weed, others have long since taken advantage of this plant's unique beauty and use in the landscape. Best of all, the care of crown vetch ‘weed' is extremely easy. So how do you grow crown vetch? Keep reading to learn more about this interesting plant.

Eager to join the grow-your-own-food movement and don’t know where to begin? Tried your hand at gardening with less than satisfying results, while your neighbor’s front yard overflowed with beans and cabbage? With the start of the traditional gardening season just around the corner — and four-season gardening offering never-ending opportunities — the time is ripe to formulate a plan of action that nurtures mind, body and spirit. Here’s a pack of tips to help you plant the seeds for growing your green thumb: 1. Cultivate your inner gardener Gardening is about so much more than simply growing vegetables, flowers...

More than 9 pounds of an explosive commonly used by terrorists was found at an Escondido home where a landscaper was injured by a blast last week, authorities announced Saturday.

In 1979, a Peter Sellers film was released, with mixed success at the box office. In the film "Being There", Sellers played a savant gardener named Chance, who was totally isolated from the world, except for what he saw, and tried to make sense of, on T.V., until his reclusive employer eventually died. With nowhere to go, and no way to support himself, he came under the care of an elderly and powerful couple, Eve and Ben, who decided to repackage him as a profound philosopher, changing his name to "Chauncey Gardner", and eventually maneuvering to install him as an...

A friend of mine is a volunteer master gardener at the St. John's County Florida Arboretum. She puts in countless hours creating a beautiful place to smell the flowers. I made this video for Shirley and all the folk's involved at the St. John's County Arboretum. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/VIDEO/?action=view&current=ARBORETUMSPRING.flv [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/VIDEO/?action=view&current=ARBORETUMSPRING.flv][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/VIDEO/th_ARBORETUMSPRING.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Hillary Clinton, faced with the prospect of up to $40,000 in potential fines for employing illegal aliens, fired her maid, butler, and gardener Friday. The former employees were handed their walking papers Friday morning immediately after the breakfast table was cleared, the dishes washed, and the laundry folded.

Son of The English Patient: Boring "Constant Gardener" is Dreadful, Far-Left, White Guilt Drivel By Debbie Schlussel If you were thinking of seeing "Constant Gardener," when it arrives in theaters, next week, save your money. That is, unless you are into movies where the murderous, evil White man and the big bad pharmaceutical companies they run are the reason for all poverty, illness, despair, and death in Africa. That's the Cliff's Notes version of this celluloid piece of crap: Western White Man, Evil; Innocent African Black Man, Angelic. The stupid, liberal, noblesse oblige crowd who attended the screening just loved...

Star Jones has stiffed a NYC company that helped to beautify her penthouse garden in advance of an Architectural Digest photo shoot last year, according to a lawsuit filed against the freebie loving star of ABC's 'The View.'Dimitri Nurseries claims that Jones signed an agreement guaranteeing that the firm would get a credit in the magazine (in lieu of payment) for its work. When the citation did not appear, the firm demanded that Jones make good on a $7,892.00 bill.Jones, 42 did not want to pay and offered to give the firm a plaque with her signature that could be...

Gardeners do their best to control weeds whether in the flower bed or vegetable patch.Farmers do their best to eliminate rats from their corn crib in order to feed the farm animals and have seed for future crops.If the gardener did not remove the weeds and the farmer did not remove the rats what would they have?If you were God, the gardener and farmer of this planet, who are the first 5 weeds (people) you would pull and which are the first 3 species of vermin (groups) you would exterminate?