I live on a farm and we have barn cats. They love to use my flower beds as their “litter box”. Eww! Aside from that just being gross, they stir up the mulch and make a general mess of things. I don’t want to harm the cats but I do want [...]

I have tried everything, ground spray, vibrating posts, etc. I have gotten rid of them in the yard but now they are destroying the gardens. Ants too. When I get the ant problem under control in the gardens, they just move to the yard and visa-versa. Help.

Rising food costs are causing more families to start their own vegetable gardens at home.
“We’re selling a lot more seeds for vegetables. We’re selling a lot more plants and more people are asking, ‘How do I make my plants grow in a garden?’” said Kent Maughan with the Soil Service Garden Center on Troost Avenue.
Maughan [...]

We all grow lawns whether the climate permits or not and use fertilizers to maintain the lawns. Why is that there is not enough talk on how to improve the garden habits to combat global warming? What are the gardens we need to have? Please answer by telling the climate you are living in.

A development company finished contruction on a new shopping mall and office building. To make the place look more appealing, they did substantial landscaping including planting trees, shrubs and gardens. Can depreciation deductions be claimed on any of the items aboce, IF SO, what is the depreciable life?

These darn Furry rats keep ripping apart my lawn and gardens? The are so into burring there Nutty little treasures in my yard which ends up ripping apart my lawn and plant beds..WTF…anything safe to keep them away so I don’t have to smack them around the yard with a hockey stick?

I know the Japanese have a thing for Zen gardens and finding peace within them and everything but do the Chinese have anything that is like them? If so, what are they called?

From Transatlantic Sessions series 2 (1998)
lyrics: trad – pub. W B Yeats 1889
fiddle: Aly Bain
accordion: Donald Shaw
flute: Ronan Browne
dobro: Jerry Douglas
guitar: Russ Barenberg
bass: Danny Thompson

I have several small vegetable gardens around the yard. There are a number of cats in the neighborhood who dig holes and do their business. I am looking for an easy and cheap way to keep the cats out of the garden, without using chemicals or injuring the cats. What works for this?

Do you like them in suburban gardens, I think it creates a really nice tropical look iykwim.