DIY projects involving woodworking can be challenging (depending on your skill level), but also pretty rewarding—resulting in an actual physical thing you made yourself. But all that cutting, screwing ...

With the gardening season drawing to a close, you might want to consider “dusting” your garden. Adding sawdust, that is. Sawdust is a terrific material for enriching the soil with humus, which sawdust ...

Q: I saw a plant this autumn that looked like a grass but with showy pinkish tops. I wasn’t sure if they were flowers but it was quite striking. I’d like to try growing some because I love late-season ...

QUESTION: The leaves on one of my wonderful Japanese maples dried up in less than a week. When I looked at the lower limbs, I noticed sawdust all over the ground and coming from holes in the limbs. I ...

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