usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? A little garden dirt DAVID DANGERMOND, Correspondent Article Launched:05/04/2007 04:52:31 PM PDT Greetings, dirty thumbers! Well, if April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? (Those of you who just said the Pilgrims can go to the back of the class. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? A little garden dirt DAVID DANGERMOND, Correspondent Article Launched:05/04/2007 04:52:31 PM PDT Greetings, dirty thumbers! Well, if April...

Those households each spend an average of about $400 a year on plants, power equipment, fertilizer, sod and other products and services that make up the $34. These simple steps will allow you to use less fertilizer and weed killer, and the long grass makes the lawn look thick and lush. Time is the trade-off for many people who contend they are too busy to attend to landscaping, mulching and weeding flower beds. Set your mower deck at its highest setting, don't cut more than a third of the...

This article is part of a series that offers evidence-based tools to assist family physicians in improving their decision making at the point of care. Past topics in this series include warfarin management, sore throat, pulmonary embolism, hypertension, acute otitis media, angioplasty risk and knee injury. According to the protocol, patients presenting to the emergency department with community-acquired pneumonia who had a PSI risk class of I, II or III were treated as outpatients,...

The "No Smoking" sign on the wall, the intact truck scale and an old transaction book on the counter make it appear that whoever walked away might have planned to come back. He considered doing the job himself, but discovered he'd have to pay for an inspection to first check for asbestos and other chemicals. In the mid-1960s, the government built a new port of entry and rerouted the highway around Northgate and away from the two country elevators. No longer landmarks and no longer a center...

When Donnelly and his crew go out monitoring for the pests, they scoop up a sample of standing water with a dipping cup that's about five inches in diameter. With so much snow melt creating large pools of standing water, a little bit of sunshine makes this the perfect breeding ground for the little blood-suckers. That's important, because the city uses products containing Bt (bacillus thuringiensis), a biological insecticide target-specific for aquatic flies like mosquitoes. And because...