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A Dry Fall
Our garden has kept producing despite months without rain...at least out well hasn't gone dry yet. We keep hauling tomatoes in. And...
Paul Cummins
Oct 26, 20241 min read
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Amazing Saw
This Wen corded saw is amazingly powerful. It chewed through my downed walnut tree. I bought a 16" model. Took some time getting the...
Paul Cummins
Sep 27, 20241 min read
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Drought Beauty
I am triaging by watering the wildflower garden because it's so early in the season for drought. New sprouts are still arising. Beauty...
Paul Cummins
Jun 22, 20241 min read
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Deer Me!
Wife's dream of deer fence, 18 inch raised beds and room for more coming to fruition. My old body can still do it! Dig holes, raise...
Paul Cummins
May 4, 20241 min read
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Crepe Murder
Take a tree that is beautiful all year and can survive the vagaries of the current Virginia climate and give it a flat top? This is a...
Paul Cummins
Jan 31, 20211 min read
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Green walls!
So, you bought that perfect basement condo but you have a lot of concrete wall outside your unit. You can green it up with artificial...
Paul Cummins
May 21, 20201 min read
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Selective Weed Killing
No need to buy weed and feed. Can do both functions separately. In fact the granular stuff doesn't work unless the lawn is wet. This...
Paul Cummins
May 8, 20171 min read
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Kill Weeds, Including Crabgrass, just where they are.
I was just letting crabgass take over my lawn in the summer because I didn't want the granular stuff laying around everywhere until the...
Paul Cummins
Sep 27, 20161 min read
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Safe "Power Washing"!
This little $5 device has endless uses. It's great for "sweeping" driveways and patios and cleaning out your outdoor drains. The ones...
Paul Cummins
Jun 26, 20161 min read
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Bamboozled: Can't get rid of bamboo?
This is a very entertaining treatise on the testing of certain hypotheses to limit the growth of a plant that seems indestructible,...
Paul Cummins
May 22, 20151 min read
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Great grass and clover!
Easy grass growing! In early fall or spring simply spread heat tolerant seed and cover with about half an inch of Miracle Grow or Vigoro...
Paul Cummins
Sep 6, 20142 min read
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