Q:When i was young, my dad used to make us meatloaf from the Red 'Better Homes and Gardens recipe book... when my mom left, she took the book, so we don't have the recipe anymore.i am looking for the meat loaf recipe for using the microwave. I've found a copy of the baked version from BHG website, but it just isn't the same... the help would be VERY MUCH appreciated.(ingredients were eggs, milk, bread crumbs, onion, mustard, brown sugar and ketchup...)

I don't know it but I'll bet if you go to their website you can look it up in their recipe section.

Q:Our house is INFESTED with fruit flies. And our house is extremely clean and the house itself is extremely nice. We're not dirty people. I'm saying this because the only time I remember seeing Fruit Flies THIS BAD was in one of my friend's homes and that place was a pig sty. I emphasized quot;THIS BADquot; because there are swarms of them around our home. At first it was just one or two, you know? Swat them away... go on with your life, but now they're everywhere! Please somebody help-

i have fruit fyies in my house what d i do

Q:I know enough about recycling and car emissions, but how about activities around the home?

1. Use the AC and furnace as little as possible. Open the windows if you can 2. Try to use daylighting. Open your blinds and curtains instead of turning all your lights on. 3. Use CFL's instead of incandescent bulbs. 4. Inflate your tires every week. 5. Get your car tuned up and inspected regularly. 6. Put caulking around your house for insulation. 7. Make your showers 10 minutes or less. 8. Use Blackle instead of Google. Using websites with black pixels uses less energy than white pixels. 9. Try to landscape your lawn with xeriscape. 10. Recycle, reuse, retrofit, and restore rather than buy new things.

Q:I live in Philadelphia and I am growing - tomatoesgreen beans pepperscucumbersAny helpful tips???Thanks ; )

For the tomatoes and peppers put an ice cream pail with the bottom cut out. It will help support them and keep them from getting hurt but winds. Cukes will grow up a fence or trellis if there is one handy. One 10 foot row of bean goes a long way. Hope these tips help you out.

Q:Is it worth it? Do you have to win the contest every month to try something? Do you get seeds a lot? Do you actually get both free prized when you first get the package? Please answer thoroughly, thanks! :D

I have heard many unfavourable reports.

Q:Where can I get some type of water mister for lawn and/or garden?

seriously? you mean like something you find at any home/garden store?

Q:for example plants, bugs, etc

put in a pond! it can be done very easily with a preformed liner. just wall or stone a perimeter around it the same height as the liner and then backfill with dirt, no digging! plant bushes and flowers around it and put in plenty of water plants, you can get dwarf versions of horsetail and cattail, umbrella palms. also use some water lettuce, water hyacinth, and/or lilypads which make great landing pads for dragonflies. duckweed is good if you have fish, they like to nibble on it and it keeps them off your other stuff. Plain and simple, dragonflies like water. you will also get all kinds of other lovelies including frogs, birds, butterflies, etc. i can't think of ever having a garden without a nice water feature! p.s. don't forget the bench! you'll want to be able to sit and enjoy!

Q:How do u get rid of lizards & garden snakes outside your home? Pls help!?

Remove what they eat! Insects for the lizards. And small rodents,frogs and the like for snakes! Lizards are no real problem and neither are the snakes. As long as they are not poisonous! Anyway, they are doing you a big favor being there getting rid of the destructive pests!

Q:Management complains all the time about vegans munching on their expensive garden plants

I am laughing at you, not with you.

Q:1. After we have plucked the last of our tomatoes off the plant, should we bring it inside for the winter or does it die after one season? they are those little grape tomatoes if it makes a difference)2. Every apartment in our complex has a little space for a garden right outside. We didn't get around to planting anything in ours this year, but next year we want to. Should we pull out the weeds and wildflowers and mulch before winter or in the spring?3. I have a leather purse, and I need to take it on a week long trip we're leaving for this weekend (it's the biggest purse I have), some of the stitching is coming out on one of the handles, and the only leather repair shop in town can't repair it for 2 weeks. Is it ok for me to use a heavy needle and threat to temporarily stitch it, if I use the same holes where the old stitching was? All the stitching on that handle will come out anyways when I get it professionally repaired....

1 you can try is the plant is in a pot-- it has flowers. tomatoes are annuals= live 1 season die. #2 go out before the ground freezes, pull weeds, flowers ,etc. either till the soil w/ a mechanical roto-tiller or double-dig w/ a spading fork shovel-- to 'double-dig' is to dig down 1 spade depth,turn the earth so that the former top is rotated 90 degrees --do this for the entire bed. leave it exposed for the winter---then in late winter/early spring work over the bed again adding compost,maures,etc. (double-digging is hard work--so if you have a weak back-or medical issues either hire a teenager to do it or use the roto-tiller which can be rented by the hour in many larger cities) #3 try using waxed thread and an awl -which is a heavy needled hand tool made for this work.