Garden Tips for September
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By The Garden Path, Tim Elkner, Daina Savage  Editor's note: This gardening column is written by Daina Savage, Intelligencer Journal correspondent, and Tim Elkner, Lancaster County Horticulture extension agent.           Hurricane effect. Thank goodness for Ernesto residuals.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 3--"A dead plant is an opportunity," joked Carol Reese, extension area specialist in ornamental horticulture from Jackson, Tenn. at Greenway Farms in Hixson last month.   Ms.
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So much for a Phillies flop. It's the New York Mets who are guarding against a September swoon.
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With mild weather and a bountiful fall, there's just one problem: Where can they store so much grain?
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By Ussery, Harvey  Use these natural methods to build healthier soil. Starting a new garden isn't difficult. Most people begin by going out into their yards with a shovel or garden tiller, digging up the ground and putting in a few plants.
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MONTGOMERY, NY - The leaves on the maples are approaching full color. Just like the hardwoods back in Maine. Pumpkins sit on front steps, although here, in the Hudson River Valley, they&#39;re called stoops.
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Investor's Business Daily - Mutual fund managers put some of their cash to work in September as their view on inflation improved and oil prices fell.
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YOUNGSTERS are being invited to take part in a contest to grow their own pumpkins and sunflowers this summer.  The fun competition is being run by Durham County Council to introduce children to gardening and plant biology, as well as raising awareness of home composting.
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Â·  No rain forecast in south of state until September Â·  Sprinklers and car washing could be stopped
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By Jan Riggenbach  With the last of the paste tomatoes and bush beans picked, the plants are ready to pull. In the flower garden, tubs quickly fill with yellowing leaves, faded flowers and declining annuals.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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By JULIE YOUNG  Antonia FD Vassar munched on a crisp sugar-snap pea and surveyed her ripening front yard.  Little stone walkways wind around garden beds of varying shapes and sizes. An early morning sun drenches lettuces, peas, kale, strawberries, carrots and beets.
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Things to do for Martha Stewart on Oct. 8: Go apple picking. Change the direction of ceiling fans (always run clockwise in cold weather).
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NEW YORK  - If the job of raking the leaves  falls to you, experts advise approaching it like a sport: warm  up, cool down and watch your form.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 4--BELLINGHAM -- Karin Colgrove is hankering for greens, and she hopes her recent move didn't cause her to miss her first weekly vegetable delivery of the summer.
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House price growth continued to show signs of slowing down during September the latest figures have shown. The average cost of a home increased by 0.2 per cent during the month, following growth of only 0.1
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By Andre Briscoe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 24--Gardening may soon be on the rise in Pacific Grove, if a new environmental group has its way.