Fall plants can be started now
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Any visit to the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area should now start at the Spring Mountains Visitor Gateway.
How many leaves are on the tree outside your window? That’s a question you may not be able to answer. How could you even count them all?
Alright, parents: Listen up. You may be thinking of introducing your son or daughter to the game of golf, but how to do it?
Pick up your toys! How boring is that? It’s much more exciting to get things out than it is to put them away, right?
Q: I enjoy your column, but you never write about roses. We inherited 14-year-old bushes. The bushes are important, and they should look nice.
Kershaw-Ryan State Park, just outside of Caliente in neighboring Lincoln County, makes a great summer destination for a day trip or to camp. This oasis in the desert, with elevations ranging from 4,312 to 5,080, offers temperatures 10 to 15 degrees cooler than in Las Vegas and features lush vegetation, hiking trails and even a spring-fed wading pool.
Wrapping is for ripping. Ribbons are for untying, and boxes are for dumping out and climbing in. And why not?
Basil, cilantro and Italian parsley are easy to grow here if you prepared your soil adequately and grow them at the right time of year.
You ever get that deja vu feeling? Like maybe you’ve been there before, or maybe you’ve seen something before but you can’t quite put a finger on it? Well, that’s how it was as I drove on Summerlin Parkway for several days recently and watched the debris and weeds pile up along the median, and along the shoulder areas on both sides, and even on the roadway itself, which was littered in places with torn tires and other refuse.
Leafhoppers are very small and jump rather than fly. There can be hundreds if not thousands right about now on grapes. They cause some leaf yellowing, black specks on the leaves and fruit.
On your first day of school, you become a first-grader.
It was just a routine anniversary back on June 19 for Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Station No. 107 in Sun City Summerlin.
Summer’s almost over, and when you go back to school, there’s one thing you’re going to miss: your dog.
Question: I want to plant potatoes here in Las Vegas. Our season is timed different than others, though, so there aren’t seed potatoes available now for a mid- or late July planting.