'Gardening' costs Appleby -- in spades
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HAVEN, Wis. -- For 18 holes, Stuart Appleby played flawless golf in yesterday's third round, four birdies and 14 pars. It wasn't until he was done playing that he discovered that it wasn't as good a day as he had thought, that he had made a quadruple bogey.
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Joseph Glazier has seen the cost of his phone service double this year and his utility bills could do the same. He cannot ride the bus for free anymore. Subsidized prescriptions for his ailing eyes and ears have long since stopped.
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Ross Hirschfeld says folks have been talking behind his back ever since the local paper reported that he has been getting millions of dollars in farm subsidies from Washington.
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The cocktail is trying to atone for its sins by including more vitamin-rich vodka mixes and slinging vegetable gardens in a glass.
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By Hannah Stephenson  WARMER summers are prompting many gardeners to include a touch of the exotic in their planting - and there's nowhere better to start than palms and tree ferns.
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Concern at the distance 'green' produce travels.
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The homebuilder looks like a good place to park some cash.
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Investing the wrong way can cost you dearly.
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A partridge in a pear tree, seven swans and eight maids may be a bargain this year, but the price for skilled labor such as the nine ladies dancing has jumped, according to an annual estimated cost of the &quot;Twelve Days of Christmas
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AUSTIN, Minn. - A man has been ordered to pay nearly $3,000 to the woman who became seriously ill in April after opening a parking ticket envelope in which he had placed dog feces. Joshua Steven Solberg, 22, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct Friday in Mower District Court.
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By Kathy Huber, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 16--Q:Is there a vegetable book for this area?   R.B., Houston   A: Bob Randall's Year Round Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers for Metro Houston (self-published, $30) is a comprehensive book for our area.
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It's expensive, but not as expensive as living without income.
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Plus, Cendant steals home, and Deere's color is green.
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By B.C. Manion, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 2--LITHIA -- Lynn Barber's favorite hobby, gardening, sounds placid enough, but it's fraught with danger.   Once, while transplanting a citrus tree, she was swarmed by fire ants.
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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Tiffany is taking it on the chin as spiking raw material costs eat into its bottom line.
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Scotts is an interesting small-cap play on the domestic lawn and garden industry.