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View Article  A Chilling Challenge: Selling Your House In Winter
Would you like a little more cash in your pocket? Of course. But first, you might have to clean up the dog poop...

In the current see-saw real estate market, selling your house can be stressful. One way to reduce the stress and increase the odds of a sale is to make sure the landscape is in tip-top condition. Nice thought, but what if you're trying to sell your house during the middle of winter? These chilly months create unique challenges for yard presentation.

"You can transform a barren winter landscape into a lasting first impression," says Home and Garden Television’s master gardener Paul James. "You can punch things up a bit and enhance the appeal of your property. As a matter of fact, much of what you can do won't take more than a weekend and won't cost you a dime.   more »
View Article  What Can a 1935 Burpee Seed Catalog Tell Us?
Many of the best gardens are planned around the kitchen table on cold winter nights as people gather to page through the seed catalogs arriving now in stacks as deep as snowdrifts.

More than 24 million American households will spend an estimated $128 each on mail order seeds, plants, bulbs, garden tools and garden supplies in 2006, the Mailorder Gardening Association says. Yet the catalogs we see today, online and printed, are very different from yesteryear.

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I'm Marion Owen and I live on Kodiak Island, Alaska where I pull weeds, write, photograph, and produce my UpBeet Gardener radio shows and international newsletter. My husband and I operate Galley Gourmet dinner cruises. I conduct workshops and keynote addresses and produce PlanTea organic fertilizer. My main site is at plantea.com