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Why plant trees? Well, first off, trees remove carbon dioxide from the air to produce oxygen, but there are more self-interested reasons to plant them as well: They can save you money.
Previous Gardening Stories
| 5 Steps to Grow & Build a Perfect Lawn—With Free Time to Spare At times, the hassle of keeping your lawn green is enough to make you consider AstroTurf, but don’t despair: PM’s DIY Guy is on the case with his new weekly Top 5.
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| Your Best Lawn Ever: PM's Guide to the Perfect Backyard Think of your lawn as a crop that's harvested once a week. It takes a lot of nutrition, water and care to keep it growing. Here's the action plan. (Published in the April 2008 issue)
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| Top 4 New Backyard Chippers: Apple Orchard Comparison Test For typical homeowners, it makes sense to fire up one of today’s powerful and convenient chippers and process the branches into nutrient-releasing scraps that can hold in moisture and block weeds. Here's where the chips fell after three days of tests. (Published in the April 2008 issue)
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| Fiskars Garden Multi-Tool Brings Leatherman Convergence to Your Plants While we love the added functionality, be warned: You may be used to grabbing regular shears by the blade, but one squeeze of these could be enough to keep your hands out of the garden until harvest. (Published in the March 2008 issue)
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| Best New Lightweight, Compact Lawn Edgers You can try to sever this overgrowth with a string trimmer, but a better idea is to equip the trimmer with a retrofit head or buy one of the new breed of lightweight and compact edgers. New machines are half the size of a traditional vertical-wheel edger. (Published in the June 2007 issue)
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| New Walk-Behind Lawnowers: Abusive Lab Test The growth of exurbs means that more guys have more grass to cut. The question is: What kind of mower to buy? Not which brand or model, but which style? What we cared about most during a summer-long test were speed, ease of use and a price tag of less than $2500. (Published in the June 2007 issue)
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| Honda's Thumb Operated Lawnmower Controls (Published in the April 2007 issue)
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| Cub Cadet i1050 Zero-Turn Tractor: Not Just for Lebron James You don't need Cub Cadet's i1050 Zero-Turn Tractor ($3900). Then again, you don't need a Porsche. The i1050 lets you make zero-point turns, rotating in place to get in and out of tight spaces. (Published in the April 2007 issue)
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| Best Lawnmowers of the Year: Comparison Test While the new lawn mowers were gentle on the testers, we didn't return the favor. After giving the self-propelled mowers a thorough pounding, here's what we learned in the review process. (Published in the April 2007 issue)
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| Latest Technology for Lawn Irrigation New irrigation controls are just now reaching the market, and they're a much better way to water. They adjust themselves or allow you to schedule them from a home computer. All of them can save you a lot of money in utility bills and almost read the minds of thirsty plants. (Published in the August 2006 issue)
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