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The bales are also good for stacking into play forts, but this time of year, when nights are still cool and the vegetables of summer are calling to be planted, straw bales suffice as building material ...

Ample garden space can be as hard to come by in DC and its close-in suburbs as a free parking spot. An alternative? Window flower boxes, which can be seasonally adjusted or planted with hardy ...

If you'd like to grow some herbs, salad greens, or other small plants but live in an apartment or condo with no land you can buy or build an urban window garden that uses a pulley system to convert ...