“O” by Tokujin Yoshioka for Issey Miyake

May 12, 2011 – 7:17 am

“O” (as in “eau” in French meaning water) is designed, aiming to go back to the origin of the watch. It is as if sculpted from water, and creates the scenery which only the time itself embraces the wrist of the wearer. The smo

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Tags: “o”, “o” Tokujin

May 10, 2011 – 6:19 pm

Every area of the country has its challenges when it comes to growing vegetables. Growing a vegetable garden in the Southeast is no exception. With blistering hot summer days packed with high humidity, it can be tough to breathe let alone grow fresh vegetables.

An important element for having a successful vegetable garden is choosing vegetables that grow well in your specific area. So, if you live in the Southeast portion of the U.S., here are five common vegetables that are prolific and easy to grow in your area.

Summer squash and zucchini are ideally suited for growing in the southeast.

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i spy: peas carrots & corn.

May 7, 2011 – 4:02 am

tim walkers vivienne westwood.

when i was a kid growing up, everything in our house was green, orange and yellow. i liked to call it peas, carrots & corn just like the little vegetable nibblets youd find in a frozen tv dinner on a friday night, when youre parents would leave you home with the babysitter. im seeing a lot of it all over again major flashback time!

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Tags: Corn

May 6, 2011 – 1:28 pm

A couple of years ago the Topsy-Turvy upside down tomato planter was all the rage. I bought into the cool idea of trying to grow tomatoes upside down. I thought it was a pretty interesting idea.

I ran out to my local Lowes store, bought one of the planters, and immediately planted the tomato plant.

A couple months later, the plant was a pitiful mess, and it produced one puny little tomato during the whole season.

Yup, one.

I was disappointed in the performance of the Topsy-Turvy to say the least, and pretty much gave up on it. It certainly didnt produce the abundance of tomatoes that the commercials on TV claimed.

I had decided that messing with those upside down planters was a waste of time and went back to conventional methods of growing tomatoes.

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