A Chesapeake, Virginia, homeowner was fined $50 after he failed to appear in court on July 8 to answer for a debris-filled yard that neighbors have called a junkyard, according to WAVY. Blair Hess now faces a civil charge of debris accumulation on his property on Tyre Neck Road. Now it’s up to the city …
Gardening
Ever wonder why your vegetable garden isn’t thriving? Maybe your plants aren’t producing as many veggies as you hoped — or worse, nothing is growing at all. You might have to make some significant improvements to your vegetable garden to get it into the desired shape. And for those new to the gardening space, this …
After a long winter and rainy spring, even the brightest home can feel a little tired. Summer invites us to lighten, declutter, and breathe new life into our spaces. Few home updates leave you feeling refreshed as immediately as adding fresh greenery. Interior designers often point to biophilic design as the key to what makes …
If your bindweed attack strategy is to spend the summer dumping boiling water or vinegar on bindweed, you’re fighting the wrong part of the plant. Everything you can see above the soil, like the twining stems and the trumpet-shaped flowers, is essentially disposable to bindweed. The plant’s real survival strategy lives underground, where a network …
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? While we may never know the answer to that age-old question, we do know what happens when a man cuts trees down without a homeowner’s permission. That’s because a Kentucky man is facing thousands of …
There’s nothing more exciting than planting your first garden. However, one wrong choice can turn that initial excitement into years of frustration and regret. Some plants look beautiful in the nursery but can become invasive, high-maintenance, or nearly impossible to remove once established. When you’re learning how to water properly, understand sunlight patterns, and improve …
Strawberries are a favorite for home gardeners, but buying new plants every season can get expensive. Luckily, strawberry plants naturally produce runners—long, vine-like stems that grow baby plants at their tips. Little Acre Homestead teaches a simple trick for using these runners to propagate new strawberry plants for free, ensuring an endless supply of delicious …
I have discovered that garlic is a wonderfully easy and enormously satisfying crop to grow. After planting and mulching my softneck garlic cloves in early November, I mostly ignore that section of the garden until the summer harvest time. And then the fun begins: loosening the soil with a digging fork, giving each stalk a …
You’re probably watering wrong. Not because you don’t care, but because you care too much, in all the wrong ways, at all the wrong times. The drooping tomato, the yellowing basil, the rose that never bounced back last August: in most cases, the culprit isn’t drought. It’s you, hose in hand, trying your best. As …
A South Milwaukee homeowner is experiencing some emotional whiplash after going up against the local government. The City of South Milwaukee sent out a legal notice to a local couple, ordering them to take down a collection of giant skeletons they had displayed in front of their home. However, local NBC outlet TMJ4 reports that …