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If your household budget includes paying a lawn maintenance service and a pest control service every month, now is a great time to take matters into your own hands and save some green with a few lawn care tips. When you consider that: Your lawn service can run $200 a month or more. Replace...

Much has been made of the second coming of the vegetable garden. Seventy years after the U.S. and British governments exhorted their citizens to grow food to feed their families, freeing up manufacturing and agricultural efforts to focus on war interests, the "victory garden" movement has...

Now that the Obama White House is planting a vegetable garden, you can bet that everyone else will start planting gardens. And that's a good thing, if you have a big enough yard and sunlight to make your garden grow. But if you don't have enough land as the White House to plant a garden, here are...

With food costs rising and household budgets tightening, home-grown garden solutions are a great way to both save and get a lot of green in 2009. Invest a little of your landscaping budget in veggie gardening, and you'll reap 25 times that value in a bounty unrivaled by store-bought produce. Burpee...

When you're into decorating, you're always looking for ways to use the things you have or find in ways they weren't originally meant for. Perhaps this is especially true for budget decorators. I've been passing by this little black step stool for a long time, wondering what use it could possibly...

Restaurants and supermarkets across the country pulled tomatoes off their menus and shelves on June 9, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded its warning against a rare form of Salmonella found in red Roma, red plum, and round red tomatoes. What better time to forego supermarket...

My friends and neighbors and I are catching on to the latest sustainability movement: farming your front yard. It's variously called "Food Not Lawns" or "Edible Estates" or "Urban Homesteading" or simply "gardening." But it's not just about growing a little food, eating local, saving money, or...

While we're busy planting and primping in the garden, we shouldn't forget that houseplants need love too. If your ivy is in need of a new home, check out the selection of pots at the dollar store. Whether you're looking for plain or fancy, large or small, clay or plastic, a buck is all you pay for...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Before Martha Stewart was even born; when Mid-Century Modern was in the future; before anyone had come up with the moniker "shelter mag," House & Garden magazine had already hit its stride....

In a quest for sustainability, self sufficiency and money saving; folks nationwide are trading in their Scotts Turfbuilder for manure as they begin growing crops at home. Homegrown veggies and herbs sound wonderful to me, especially with the warm weather we are finally getting in Ohio. I can...