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By Tim Traver This spring, we went the no-mow route on about a quarter-acre of our lawn, the last remaining groomed piece we hadn't turned into vegetable garden or permanent meadow. What a relief! During the hottest, driest spells over…

Who knew that the lawn — a generic landscape element that we basically manage on autopilot — could be so provocative? The recent In the Garden column “Yes, You Can Do Better Than the Great American Lawn” elicited nearly 1,200 comments, and…

An image commuter Zahra Ahmdz says she took at the Stadium-Chinatown SkyTrain station on March 22, 2022 appears to show a pigeon dead inside a cage. (Credit: Zahra Ahmdz)An image commuter Zahra Ahmdz says she took at the…

Last year, people were lining up well before the start of a free tree giveaway by Langley-Aldergrove Conservative MP Tako van Popta and Langley Environmental Partners Society (LEPS). A queue stretched across the parking lot in the…

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Far too many retaining wall projects start with this simple step: homeowners see a sale of retaining wall blocks, guess exactly how many they need, and have the big store deliver them. Once the block pallets are stacked in the yard,…

Candace Thompson, manager of Stuyvesant Cove Park in Lower Manhattan, put on a giant bindweed one day when a woman who was having lunch nearby…

Every lawn owner strives for greener, healthier grass. This can easily be done through year-round maintenance. While it sounds simple, maintenance requires a lot of hard work and a lot of time and money. Soil aeration is one of the…