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GREAT BEND TRIBUNE More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Managing a difficult insect pest on houseplants a challenge COURTESY PHOTO melindamyers.com Scale insects may be dining on your houseplant if you notice a sticky substance on its leaves and bumps on the upper and lower surface of the plant’s leaves and stems. A sticky substance on plant ...

Throughout 2021 we’ll publish six BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Guides, an exciting series of  132-page special editions. The guides will equip you with the practical skills to create a beautiful garden and a veg plot packed with delicious, home-grown produce. We’ll inspire you to unleash your creativity with opulent pot displays and festive decorations and help you to make the most of small spaces or shady spots. Plus, we’ll guide you through the growing season with our Year Planner 2...

MELINDA MYERS The beginning of a new year finds many gardeners preparing for the growing season ahead. Clearing space to start seeds indoors, inventorying seeds and supplies, and ordering seeds, plants, and more are usually part of the process. While organizing, you may uncover seeds from past seasons. Do not discard these just yet. When seeds are stored properly, many can last from one to five years or more. Seeds stored in a cool location like the refrigerator in an airtight container mainta...

MELINDA MYERS Submitted Photo It is possible to create a festive holiday centerpiece crafted from materials found in winter gardens. Photo courtesy MelindaMyers.com Dress up your holiday meals with a centerpiece crafted from greens, colorful stems and seed heads collected from your garden. Or purchase fresh materials you need from your favorite garden center or florist. Most gardeners spend some time gathering a few blossoms and creating a bouquet or arrangement for their summer gathering...

Courtesy of Laura Hunter 2020 was the first year in decades when designers predicted a move away from open layouts. But Laura Hunter was ahead of the curve. When she and her husband, David, purchased their 1930s cottage in Oxfordshire, England, in August 2019, she reveled in the closed-off floor plan. “I loved that there were quite a few rooms where I could use different wallpapers,” says the mom of two, whose Instagram account seems dedicated to dainty floral prints.  In fact Hunt...

Announcing the 2020 Dwell Design Awards Finalists Here are the front-runners for Community Pick across eight categories. We asked, you voted. The contenders for Community Pick in the Dwelling, Renovation, Prefab, Small Space, Garden, Kitchen, Bathroom, and Object categories represent the cutting edge of design. Take a look at what Dwell readers have judged to be the best of the best—and stay tuned to see the final winners of the 2020 Dwell Design Awards, to be announced January 12. Dwellings ...

Worker, the box store worker, could be the next manufacturing job, that shoe to drop, in the economy. those jobs are going away, and theyre not coming back. >> yeah. it is interesting, this month had pretty good job numbers for retail. this is coming after a long period of whats essentially an acute depression in department store retail. theres three reasons for that. the first reason is amazon is doing tremendously. the revenue has been up since 2010. the second is we overbuilt mall space in th...

Off at this hour in search of missing malaysian flight 370. trying to make up for lost time. yesterday planes were grounded due to horrific weather in that part of the ocean. the planes are headed 1,500 miles southwest of perth, australia, to investigate possible debris sites in the southe southern indian ocean. promising leads tonight and that is a big difference from recent nights. new satellite images from japan. the highest resolution and most sf sophisticated images out there. they have not...