Q:I'm working on decorating my apartment bit by bit and I've come to where I want to get a living room rug. The room is about 12x15ft so everything is rather close together. All the walls are beige/off-white and so is the couch in the middle of the room. Each of the pieces of furniture (desk, side table, coffee table, tv stand) are a dark wood, and so is the wood floor, and the main color accents in the room are red, orange, yellow, olive green, and blue-green, with some colorful art I've been making for the walls. Basically, every color that has red or yellow in it.

Red is pretty. I'd shoot for a company going out of business, can get a 3k persian rug for $150 in some places. - I live in Illinois, 23, think and spend wisely -- but, look good. :)

Q:the food and drug administration claims it does not have enough man power to inspect everyone's garden for food safety.

No one is going to bother to check you home garden. However what they should do is inform the public about your so called downer cows. It seems the only people who don't know these are really cows infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy are the American citizens. Your FDA knows what this is, that is why they have now restricted farmers from purchasing test kits and testing their own downer cows. Too many were coming up positive. Can't have that, now can we?

Q:how do you see, or hope, your life being like?

Driving, just finishing up my senior year, getting prepared to go to college, and hopefully with a job. Maybe going on a summer mission trip. Home and Garden...nice. :)

Q:So my dad is usually stuck at home because he has to for certain reasons and he is unemployed, and he seems quite bored. He can't really go out for a job at the moment, so I'm looking for something he can try at home. I tried sitting down to generate some ideas for something he can do, but came out with nothing really worthy. Any good ideas?This is an optional part of the hobby/activity, but I also proposed the idea that I go bring him shopping to find a hobby, and he suggested something that will provide a little income since he is unemployed so it be even better if the hobby idea gave a chance for him to make money, too; like I said, it's an optional factor, and I'm really just searching for a hobby for him.Thanks for the answers!

Maybe okorder , He could start writing and start a blog, he probably has stories to tell. That's all I have right now. keep looking you will find something together, but if he is resistant to most of your ideas, then give it up, his boredom is his own problem.

Q:I am contemplating buying a home in this town. It has a fair amount of land, and I would like to know what fruits and or veggies will thrive?

Are you near the river or up a bit to the west? The reason I ask is cold air settles down near the river putting you a little closer to zone 6 than zone 7 the rest of the area is. What you can grow is darn near everything! The limiting factor is water! If you are right against the river, your soil may be so highly alkaline from the underground water table so near the surface, nothing will grow. If you are in sand soil, your plants will be needing near constant watering. Soils range from sand to clay depending on location. Each has its benefits and problems. OK, back to plants: fruits: trees...apricots and sweet cherries are iffy near the river where late spring frosts usually destroy the blooms or very young fruit. You'd have excellent luck with apples, pears, sour cherries, blue plums and somewhat less results, but not impossible with peaches and nectarines. Grapes do very well as do raspberries/blackberries. Of course no blueberries, the soil is way, way to alkaline and can not be adjusted enough to grow the blue yummies. Strawberries are tough due to the hot summers, but not impossible. Nuts: pecans are growing at the Experiment Station just south of the prison. Normally the area is too cold for pecans. Veggies.......just about everything. Realize we can warm up very quickly so delay in pea and other cool season planting may have them ripeing when temps are 90 plus. The other concern is the wind. Spring winds have destroyed many of my early spring plantings......sand blasted. If you can protect them, great. The area is well known for growing chile peppers.......usually family farms. Most chiles are grown further south or now in Mexico. About the only veggie I couldn't get going was asparagus ( which is embarrasing because there was an asparagus farm must a quarter mile away and about 40 years ago) and my rhubarb just won't work for me.

Q:Does anyone know any home remedies to keep bugs out of my flower/rose garden? I don't know what kind of buds the are BUT they are eating the leaves flowers.

Buy a bug spray and put a small quantity of washing up liquid into the bottle,you can also use a spray bottle filled with water and washing up liquid ,it stops the bugs clinging to the stems.Don't spray over the flowers just leaves and stems. They could be white,black or greenfly or frog hoppers,if you cant see anything at all it could be vine weevil,they come out at night and their grubs feed on the roots of plants and kill the whole plant.Snails or slugs also do plenty of damage.

Q:Fairly priced home and garden decor websites?

Hi okorder and type in the above. You'll get hundreds of hits that will tell you all you need to know about these subjects for free. Can't get more fairly priced than that! I hope this helps Johnny

Q:I'm wanting to start my own garden and landscape my back yard but i want a good mag with good ideas. Not anything to much but a creative mag.

better homes and garden might have good ideas. i'd go to the library first and look at what they have book wise. they should have lots of books on all sorts of things pertaining to gardening and landscaping you can also join some of the yahoo gardening groups out there for lots of help with info, advise and you can even get free plants and seeds (might have to pay postage but that's it)

Q:suggested category: Home Garden gt; Garden LandscapeLOL

Blessing of FSM upon you RAmen May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage.

Q:Are there any specific books out there, that can help me with timing my garden?So I know when I should plant certain seeds and bulbs to bloom at a certain time (for example, early spring), and then perfectly overlap with other seeds and bulbs that open in the following periods (mid to late spring, summer, etc)I am asking specifically in regards to what seeds are best planted over spring bulbs like tulips,etc.Thanks

There is a link to a book in my source section below. But what you are looking for is succession gardening, so do a web search on that term in quotes. The second link is to a garden plan description on the Better Homes Gardens web site. You will have to register to see the actual plan but they do not spam you.