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Paul Cummins
Oct 261 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
Sep 271 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
Jun 221 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
May 41 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
Jan 31, 20211 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
May 21, 20201 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
May 8, 20171 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
Sep 27, 20161 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
Jun 26, 20161 min read
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...
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Paul Cummins
May 22, 20151 min read
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,...
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Paul Cummins
Sep 6, 20142 min read
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...
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