Metro Creative Connection STUART SUTPHIN Contributing columnist Stuart Sutphin It was a good reliable mower I have been using for a long, long time. Over the years, I took good care of it. I changed the oil and the air filter every spring. I cleaned or replaced the spark plug […]
Lawn and Garden
Edible landscaping: Farming the yard | Local News
Alrlean Lambert, right, and Javad Torabinejad have been working on a plan for Lambert’s garden area on her Blacksburg property on Bishop Road, which includes the pond behind them. Arlean Lambert explains […]
The 7 best lawn mowers for every kind of lawn in 2021
Taking care of a lawn is no easy feat — it requires you to get your hands dirty, and it often involves heavy machinery that can be exacting to maneuver. And before you can even get down to the nitty-gritty work of lawn care, you first need to gather all […]
Classified Ads (Published:07/15/2021) | Addison County Independent
Fri, 07/19/2019 – 12:09pm Anonymous To place a classified line ad, please call: 388-4944 or submit it here. For display advertising [email protected] * For public notices & warnings [email protected] To find a particular item in the Classifieds using a key word (like “refrigerator” or “Ford”), use the “Find” function on your […]
Heat wave drives residents to native gardening | Herald Community Newspapers
New York American Water issued a voluntary conservation notice on June 29 to its Long Island customers: “The heat wave impacting Long Island is leading to extremely high water use by our customers and putting significant stress on the water supply.” The company suggested that customers limit their water use […]
An eco-conscious choice – Lawn & Landscape
In 2006, Ian McCarthy sold his maintenance company on Cape Cod in order to invest in a professional basketball team. Fast forward to 2016: After living in Canada for six years, McCarthy found himself out of the sports industry and back on Cape Cod. So, McCarthy went crabbing with a […]
Why you’re mowing you’re yard wrong
It has always been surprising to me that despite the fact that the cultivated lawn is a purely human invention, we should have such a tortured and painful relationship with our turf. Lawns started out as a very public sign of wealth — think Downton Abbey and the like. If you […]
Tired of Your High-Maintenance Turf? 7 Reasons to Consider a Creeping Thyme Lawn
istockphoto.com You love your lush lawn, but maintaining it takes way too much time and effort. Three out of four seasons you’re out there mowing, edging, fertilizing, weeding … the list goes on. Enough is enough already! Making the switch to a creeping thyme lawn reaps many benefits, chief among […]