Yahoo Life Archives | Page 58 of 2043 | The Cool Down

A girl in an agricultural field.

Tech

Study links pesticide exposure to earlier or delayed first periods in girls

A white utility box and an air conditioning unit mounted on a brown wooden wall.

Home

In California, a $2,500 rebate couldn't beat $4,000-$6,000 heat-pump water heater quotes

A woman holds seed packets while discussing planting beans and sugar snap peas in a garden.

Home

Garden coach in Illinois says late July is the time to sow fall beans, peas, greens, and herbs

A garden with various plants, a woman tending to them, and a bench displaying harvested vegetables and fruits.

Home

'Put the fertilizer bag down': 11 easy ways to start composting, and the ratio that matters

A woman holds pruning shears and a coneflower while standing in a garden filled with pink flowers.

Home

Across much of the U.S., deadheading coneflowers the 'right way' keeps bees fed all summer

Ginger Zee shows her "keyhole" garden beds.

Home

Ginger Zee says 'keyhole' compost cuts watering by a third, and she skips fertilizer

A person holds a tomato plant with ripe tomatoes while using pruning shears.

Home

New gardeners go to social media for help, and even tomato pruning spirals into confusion

Two people engage in conversation in a garden filled with plants and flowers.

Home

From Florida to Arizona, gardeners share the August crops that set up a thriving fall garden

An aerial view of agricultural fields with varying shades of green and scattered trees.

Outdoors

Farmer in Thailand shows how an empty rice field became a food forest

Asia watering seeds.

Home

Gardener from Virginia saves leggy kale seedlings and says 'you do not have to start over'

White clover flowers grow among green foliage and grasses.

Home

White clover smothered herbs, but tomatoes, cucumbers, raspberries thrived

A digital thermostat on a wall.

Home

In the South, setting AC too low can freeze coils, spike bills, and wear out the system