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Whether you are sharpening an existing blade or installing new blades, proper blade orientation is very important. If you install a blade incorrectly, your mower may not cut properly.

Growing up in an era of commercial farming, you may not be accustomed to seeing worms in your beans. Yet as organic foods become mainstream, you will inevitably see more critters in your produce, from munch marks on your greens to pests the look like worms in your black-eyed peas.

Lighting the menorah is the most important part of celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. It commemorates the miracle that a day's worth of oil burned for eight days. The menorah consists of nine candles.

Muddy lawns are all too common when homeowners plant grass in areas that don’t have suitable drainage. Although sand isn’t a good amendment option, other methods can be used to mend a mud problem. Unfortunately, some of those methods may involve sacrificing the lawn for one year while the soil is fixed.

The word courgette might cause confusion to the average home cook, but it is just another name for a zucchini, so there is no need for alarm. The courgette belongs to the squash family and has a reputation as a versatile vegetable that's easy to work with.

Also known as gram, besan, cici, chickpea or chana flour, garbanzo bean flour is most commonly used in Indian cuisine but is also part of Middle Eastern and French provençal cooking. Made from roasted or unroasted garbanzo beans, this flour has a rich, nutty flavor.

Whether your herb garden consists of a few potted plants or a garden plot, rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) deserves a prime place. This herb delights gardeners and cooks with its silvery green foliage, blue flowers and delicious flavor.

Plants known as thistles don't all belong to the same species, but their similar appearance and the qualities they have in common -- toughness, prickliness and invasiveness -- make them universally despised. To devise a homemade strategy for eradicating thistles, you need to understand how the weeds grow.

Spring rolls, a Chinese appetizer served in early spring at the start of a new year, are usually fried, steamed or rolled and chilled. The most time-intensive element is the outer casing, or wrapper. Spring roll wrappers are circular or rectangular and are typically made of a mixture of rice and tapioca flours.

Ground cinnamon and cinnamon sticks are cut from the same cloth -- or rather, from the bark of the same tree. Ground cinnamon is made from cinnamon sticks that are broken down until they form powder.