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Series: Community Gardens
Follows three gardeners through the season.
- Introducing the gardens and gardeners, with videos (May 31)
- Community gardens get a midsummer look, with videos (July 5)
- Gardeners battle thieves as harvest time arrives, with videos (Sept. 13)
More videos:
- Mt. Lebanon Community Garden: Part 5 (Oct. 25)
- Olde Allegheny Community Garden: Part 5 (Oct. 25)
- Homewood Community Garden: Part 5(Oct. 25)
- Old Allegheny Community Garden: Part 4 (Sept. 13)
- Homewood Community Garden: Part 4 (Sept. 13)
- Mt. Lebanon Community Garden: Part 4 (Sept. 13)
- Homewood Community Garden: Part 3 (Aug. 9)
- Olde Allegheny Garden: Part 3 (Aug. 9)
- Mt. Lebanon Community Garden: Part 3 (Aug. 9)
- Homewood Community Garden: Inspiration (July 12)
- Growing Together: Second season (June 2)
Audio Slideshows / Gardening Basics
PG Backyard Gardener Doug Oster shows you how:
A profound plunge in the number of single-family homes bought and sold in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area was most likely brought on by a severe combination of tighter lending standards that have made it more difficult to obtain mortgages and buyers who are being more cautious when job security is less certain. (11/16/2008)
Traveling and leaving your comfort zone can be both exhilarating and terrifying. (11/15/2008)
In the weeks before Election Day, lots of people rang John and Angie Burwell's doorbell in Homestead. (11/15/2008)
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Burwell and Tot |
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Angie Burwell |
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Powder room |
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Game room |
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Master bath |
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Master bedroom |
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Peters was among the 13 original townships formed under the act that created Washington County way back in 1781. But the majority of homes there were built within the past 25 years. (11/15/2008)
I haven't kept an exact count over 25 years of marriage, but I'm pretty sure if you added up all the time I've spent at the mall, standing around idly in the dress or shoe department while my wife browsed through the sale racks, holding up items and asking me what I thought, you wouldn't even bother to give me a rough total. (11/15/2008)
- Despite level prices, slowing home sales could spell trouble for local economy (11/16/2008)
- Business partners use house to show off design, decorating talents (11/15/2008)
- BuyingHere: Peters (11/15/2008)
- Shop till you drop (11/15/2008)
- Real Estate People & Places (11/15/2008)
- Spirit of Pittsburgh (11/08/2008)
- Calvinism finds a home (11/08/2008)
- Q&A with Sandy Feather: Keep stink bug outdoors (11/08/2008)
- BuyingHere: Mount Pleasant Township (11/08/2008)
- Home notes (11/08/2008)
MORE HOMES & GARDEN
Coming Saturday
Find the best-decked halls with our roundup of upcoming holiday house tours.
Renovation Inspiration Contest
Great Gardens Contest
Do you want to go greener?
The PG is looking for a family that's environmentally aware but wants to go greener. For a story, we'll pair you with a consultant who will help you use new methods and products.
Interested? E-mail PG environmental writer Don Hopey at dhopey@post-gazette.com and tell him why.
Gardening Forum
The PG's Backyard Gardener Doug Oster answers your questions in a new and improved forum home.
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