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Hanging Tomatoes: Grow Upwards Without Wasting Ground Space
Tomatoes can grow upwards while using hardly any ground space – and many amateur gardeners are now completely…
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How to Use Solid Petroleum Jelly on the Refrigerator Door Seal
A very thin layer of solid petroleum jelly on the refrigerator door seal can lessen friction and help keep the…
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Best Time to Water Outdoor Plants: Morning or Evening?
A hose in one hand and a coffee in the other, you look at drooping leaves and ask yourself whether…
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The hidden gap between your cooker and worktop
The sponge sweeps across the worktop, the mop goes over the tiles and the rubbish bin gets emptied. Everything…
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The Best Way to Store an Opened Avocado
The halved avocado waits on the worktop like a tiny ticking bomb. You have lifted out several velvety slices…
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Why Does the Sofa Start to Sag in the Same Spot?
Over time, it is common to notice that the sofa starts to sag in the same spot, especially in the…
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Camu-camu returns to food markets with more vitamin C than orange
Camu-camu has returned to food markets, delicatessens and stalls specialising in regional produce, driven by…
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How Lemon and Salt Refresh a Tired Cutting Board
You tend not to think about your cutting board until it starts looking rather tragic: gouges across the…
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Ultra-processed foods and cancer survivors: what the Italian study found
Many people pay closer attention to vitamins, fibre and “healthy” food after receiving a diagnosis. A large…
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Why Vinegar and Baking Soda Quietly Fail as a Cleaning Combo
On the worktop, a glass jar erupted in fizz and foam like a miniature volcano: vinegar and baking soda…
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Bitter Is the New Sweet: Chicory and Rocket for Better Digestion
Sugar has provided the background music to our meals for years: covert, clinging and everywhere. It brings…
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Why a Rice Cooker Has a Removable Lead: 5 Safety Reasons
Have you ever noticed that almost every kitchen appliance has its lead permanently attached to the appliance…
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Buffalo Chicken Bowls
Active time: 25 minutes Total time: 1 hour Serves: 4 Tossing the chicken in flour creates a crisp coating…
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Magnetic Cooking Surfaces: Cooking Without a Frying Pan
The frying pan was still sitting on the hob, yet it was no longer needed. Instead, thin salmon fillets sizzled…
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Butternut Squash Mash: A Lighter Side for Roast Poultry
The festive table keeps becoming more substantial, even as our appetite for lighter dishes quietly increases.
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Lavender: this natural three-part mix creates abundant flowers
Many amateur gardeners dream of dense, purple lavender bushes, only to find themselves facing a few puny…
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Kitchen Germ Magnets: Tools You Should Throw Away Today
We scour the sink and clean the worktops, but the utensils we reach for without thinking may be quietly…
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Perennial vegetables: 15 crops for an almost self-sufficient garden
If you raise the same varieties every spring, keep an eye on late frosts and barely put down the hose…
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Refrigerator fire risk: why you should switch it off before a holiday
The suitcase was packed in the hallway, the family were in the car – and in the kitchen, an appliance…
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Gut Bacteria Reprogramme Body Fat on a Low-Protein Diet
A recent study has attracted attention after researchers showed that certain microbes in the gut can…
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Finnish Dish-Draining Cupboard: The Astiankuivauskaappi That Keeps Worktops Clear
The dish-draining cupboard, known in Finland as the astiankuivauskaappi, makes it possible to put away plates…