Design an eco-yard: turn your high-maintenance lawn into an environmentally friendly perennial garden to draw birds, butterflies and admiring looks
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Big lawns waste water and time. A habitat garden can be designed to cut water use with such features as mulched shrubs, vines and drought-resistant wild flowers. Such a garden will also attract and offer a niche for birds, insects and other small animals. Tips are giving on designing a garden.
Publication Name: Country Journal
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0898-6355
Year: 1996
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Okra takes the heat
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Okra is best known in the US as a staple of southern-style cooking, particularly as an ingredient of gumbo. The vegetable is a good source of protein and is regularly used as a meat substitute. It migrated from Brazil, Barbados, and Central Africa, but now thrives in the southern states.
Publication Name: Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0018-5329
Year: 1996
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