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Swanky strips: A landscaping how-toWednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 5:10AMEveryone knows the strip from hell. Sure, you could just cover it over with concrete or rocks. In the last few years, though, turning that strip into the Garden of Eden has become a local trend.

Midsummer magicWednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 4:15AMIf you neglected to plant annuals for summer blooms, or if they wilted during a hot spell, you don't have to do without flowers until next year.

At Stella restaurant in Truckee, everything from foraged food to digital media contributes to the feastWednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 3:55AMAhi sashimi is bedded in a tangle of wakame and topped with beads of gelled cantaloupe juice whose color and pop are meant to mimic fish roe. / Liz Margerum/RGJ

A stranger in the gardenWednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 3:10AMA couple of interesting and uninvited strangers have appeared on my third floor balcony.

A bumper crop of questionsWednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 1:48AMBy the middle of summer some plants need a bit of an overhaul. Keep plucking the faded blooms from your annual plants and container gardens and they’ll continue to make more flowers.

Rewards of gardening are more than monetaryTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:00PMWhen Holly Joyce needs an onion for the evening meal, she only has to step out the door to pick one fresh from her garden.

ASK A MASTER GARDENER: July garden tipsTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:23PM* Radishes, lettuce and spinach bolt and turn bitter in July heat. Remove them and replace with cauliflower and cabbage for fall harvest* Water gardens early in the day and at the base of plants.* Sidedress tomatoes, peppers and other long-season crops with fertilizer early this month---not too heavily or you'll end up with luxuriant foliage and late or little fruit.* Mosquitoes breed in ...

Officials enlist public's help on city plansTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:59PMAs a prelude to what will be the most extensive update to Burbank s plans in more than four decades, officials are staging a major public outreach campaign to get as much feedback as they can on how to mold the city over the next 20 years.

Southern Pines Orders Water Conservation MeasuresTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:34PMSouthern Pines Town Manager Reagan Parsons has ordered Stage 3 mandatory water conservation measures due to the low flow of water in the town’s raw water source.