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Homegrown, Sept. 4, 2010

Our four mugo pines at the entry to our home in Battlement Mesa (elevation 5,500 feet) for the past year are showing progressive browning off of needles partly because of deer damage, particularly this past season. I have tried a number of changes in watering and insect control to no avail. Your advice would be appreciated. — Larry

Genetically Modified Foods : Mosanto's Weapon of Mass Destruction

Rhetoric from the United States government since the early 1990s proclaims that genetically modified (GM) foods are no different from their natural counterparts that have existed for centuries. But this is a political, not a scientific assertion.

Bayer will stop making insecticide

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Bayer CropScience said it is evaluating the impact the phase-out of the insecticide-nematicide aldicarb will have on employment at its Institute site, where it makes aldicarb.The company has signed a memorandum of agreement with the fe...

Beauty and the beasts: Lilies herald the second half of summer – but only if the dastardly lily beetle doesn't get to ...

I've become deeply attached to my lilies. Unfortunately, so have the lily beetles. How does it work, this insectan grapevine? How do the wretches know that here, on land that previously housed chickens and brambles, there is now a succulent crop of martagons and regales and long- necked longiflorums?

Life-changing aid mission to Africa for Sixers' Willie Green

This upcoming season could very well be a humbling one for 76ers guard Willie Green. Minutes will surely be limited for the veteran, entering his eighth season, because of the team's addition of No. 2 pick Evan Turner, as well as the acquisition of shooting swingman Andres Nocioni.