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It's tool time: Take care of yard and garden equipment now (Great Falls Tribune)

As winter approaches, it's time to take care of the gardening and lawn equipment that worked so hard during the summer. Spending a little more time on the lawnmower, rototiller, weed whacker and other motorized equipment pays off when it comes time to start them next year.

Is this really New York or are we in the tropics? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Heat-loving plants thrive in a Long Island garden.

Fit for a king: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on cabbage (Guardian Unlimited)

The humble cabbage has been rather eclipsed in recent years by more glamorous - or at least fashionable - leafy relatives in the brassica brotherhood: kale (curly, Russian, Tuscan), sprout tops and "greens" - which are usually just unhearted, immature cabbages. It's funny, isn't it, how fickle we chefs are with words and trends? Somehow, "cabbage" - of which there are dozens of outstanding ...

Our savings survey results (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

We asked our readers for their best money-saving tip, and here are your responses: Make it do or do without.

A useful guide to autumn eating (The News Journal)

You can't judge a cookbook by its cover photo, and "Autumn Gathering," (Morrow Cookbooks, 2008), a new cookbook by Rick Rodgers, is a case in point.

How big is your jack-o'-lantern? (Independent)

To the casual observer, giant-vegetable growing is a world for weird obsessives. Big fans of even bigger onions are not doing it for taste or appearance: they just want to produce the largest vegetables possible. Inspired by Roald Dahl or possibly "Jack and the Beanstalk", they live a fairy-tale life of beetroots the size of pumpkins, and pumpkins the size of bathtubs. So there's no connection, ...