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Garden Help Desk: Benefits of a gardening journal

What can a garden journal do for you? We’ve talked about garden journals before, and what a journal can do for a gardener. Your journal is the place where you keep a yearly record of your garden-what and when you planted, how each variety did, how the weather worked for or against you, and ...

Sunday Drive: Looking for eagles with the grandkids in the new Lexus RX 350h

The Lexus brand has always proven to be one of our favorite rides. The RX 350 is frequently at the top of our list of premium luxury vehicles as it always proves to be the perfect-sized vehicle for empty nesters such as ourselves. This year, with a model completely redesigned from the ground ...

Garden Help Desk: Differences between pelleted, regular seeds

My new seed catalog has pelleted seeds and regular seeds. Are pelleted seeds really worth the extra cost? Pelleting is a process used to coat tiny or irregularly shaped seeds with an inert material. It’s true that pelleted seeds cost more but, depending on what kind of gardener you are, ...

Sunday Drive: Honda does is right with the all-new HR-V

Last year brought changes to the Honda lineup, with the all-new HR-V being one of them — along with a new Civic and their best-selling SUV, the CR-V. It has been a strange phenomenon during the past decade as we’ve seen so many folks migrating to driving an SUV instead of a sedan. Back in ...

Sunday Drive: 2023 Kia Sportage hybrid checks all the right boxes

As SUVs continue to be all the rage, the new Kia Sportage became the company's best-selling model back in 2015, at the time taking the glitz away from the popular Rio model. Many would have thought with the big splash the Telluride made upon its debut a few years ago it would now lead the ...

Garden Help Desk: Spraying oil is the best way to protect your fruit trees

Is it time to spray oil on my fruit trees? Horticultural oils are an important tool in fruit tree care. Now isn’t the time to do that first routine spray. We’ll get to the best timing in a bit, but first, let’s take a look at what a delayed-dormant oil spray will and won’t do for ...