GROWING BY THE RULES The leafy greens included under the new safety guidelines are: iceberg, romaine, green leaf, red leaf, butter and baby leaf lettuce escarole endive spring mix spinach cabbage kale arugula chard After three people died and more than 200 were sickened from spinach contaminated with E. GROWING BY THE RULES The leafy greens included under the new safety guidelines are: iceberg, romaine, green leaf, red leaf, butter and baby leaf lettuce escarole endive spring mix spinach...

As entertainment goes its pretty tough to beat watching kids bury their faces into slices of pumpkin pie with their hands behind their back, trying to spit pumpkin seeds, rolling pumpkins or any of the Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn type of games that are all free. Theyll be a bit more frost on the pumpkins this year when Mantecas biggest two-day party of the year gets underway celebrating the Manteca crop that dominates the West Coast markets. As entertainment goes its pretty tough to beat...

Growing up on a farm, Borich s passion for gardening started to bloom as a youth. Borich s family raised a big vegetable garden and sold the harvest to their local grocery store. Soon, her yard will be a picturesque scene highlighted by the radiance of flowers, vegetables and fruit. The power, the symmetry, the beauty, the smell, the colors, the shading and the variety are all aspects that drew Borich to gardening. Borich said when a gardener sees a plant on the counter at a garden center...

They farm 150 acres of corn and beans, 10 acres of watermelons and five acres with pumpkins. Hobby farmers loosely defined as those whose incomes are derived not solely from farming often bring little or no hands-on experience to their new avocation. Until they bought the farm, which includes a four-bedroom house, a 1,000-square-foot weaving studio, animal sheds, a wool shed and gift shop, Sullivan had not gardened before. Some hobby farmers embrace the rural life because they love...

Cut back dead stalks of perennial flowers; dig or pull out weeds or any remaining spent vegetables; rake debris off the lawn; and prune away dead or diseased branches from trees. The key to making it fun is to pace yourself -- starting soon and doing a little at a time, rather than waiting and then being inundated with too much to do all at once. Except for formal shrubs, which get sheared, shrubs respond best to loppers; use that tool to cut some of the oldest stems, which no longer...