September 18, 2020
The 262nd day of 2020
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gardening
September 18, 2020
Planting Flowers Guide
When do you plant flowers in the garden? It depends! Is it a perennial flower, annual flower, or bulb? Is it frost-sensitive or not? As with vegetables, there’s a right and a wrong time to plant your favorite flowers. See our When to Plant Flowers charts...
calendar
September 18, 2020
Rosh Hashanah Begins
Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the year according to the traditional Jewish calendar. In 2020, Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on Friday, September 18. Learn more about how Rosh Hashanah is celebrated with traditions and sweet symbolic foods—and listen to the sound of the shofar!
What Is Rosh ...
cooking
September 18, 2020
Best Applesauce Recipes
Here are the best homemade applesauce recipes from The Old Farmer’s Almanac—plus many recipes for using applesauce from applesauce bread to applesauce pudding,
When making applesauce, it’s important to use a softer apple variety, so it cooks down easily. Find out which...
home-health
September 18, 2020
Is Honey Healthy?
Cuts, scrapes, scratches, burns, coughs, canker sores, heartburn, stomach upsets, diaper rash—mostly minor, but sometimes painful and always inconvenient—are common occurrences in most households. What to do? Some people reach for the honey!
Since prehistoric times, traditional healers used honey...
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