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Gardeners like to show off their hard work, which spans weeks, months and even years of nurturing to grow their favorite ...

Mark and Karen Nelson love to garden and they love to laugh. Visit the Nelson home in south Kearney, and you get the feeling ...

I've Venn Thinking — a creative card game that lets players compete to find the funniest similarities between an unlikely ...

If your potting mix looks gray, yellow, or your cactus's stems begin to turn yellow, generally pale, or reddish in color, then it's probably low on nutrients. Use a fresh bag of soil designed for ...

3) Place the offsets into cactus mix or a combination of sand and perlite. 4) Spray water directly, but gently and sparingly, on the offset daily. Do not soak the soil. 5) Wait three to four weeks ...

and the knee was in front of the bag. So if we're going by letter of the law, that knee is on the dirt in front of the bag. ... (Francona) is right (to argue). There is no doubt that the knee was ...

To have your yard or garden soil tested, bring up to five bags of soil in separate clean, clear quart-sized plastic bags. The bags must be at least half full of soil and the soil must be dry and ...

Prof Willis Owino, a food scientist at Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (right), and Mr Kenneth Oduor, a student at Florida University in the US, displaying a bag full of cactus ...

Bhushaan Manoj and Suraaj Suman appear in "Sabar Bonda" ("Cactus Pears") by Rohan Parashuram ... there is a bare minimum of furniture within, and unused bags of cement lie abandoned on the rooftop.