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...home gardeners fare economically? Derek Fell, executive director of the National Garden Bureau, estimates that on an investment of $5 in seeds and another $25 in fertilizer, plants and tools, a 15- by 25-foot backyard plot can return a yield of vegetables worth $280 to $300 at present prices. But, he warns, "too many people overspend the first time"; fancy tools and equipment (such as a $200 compost maker) of course reduce the savings. And Fell's calculations do not include whatever value the home gardener might care to put on his or her unpaid labor...
...right stretch endless blocks of red-brick rowhouses, each indistinguishable from the next. Old Chevrolets and new Mustangs are parked along the grim treeless streets. Each house has a small grass backyard. The train passes through tracts of brick warehouses and lots of empty freight trucks. The towering buildings of downtown Baltimore fade in the distance. Soon the metal scrapyards and old industrial offices thin out, and pastureland marked by barns and silos rolls by. A horse stands blank-faced behind a wooden fence. Rows of trailer homes extend to the edge of the train tracks. An elderly woman...
...Grow vegetables in the backyard. A 15-ft. by 25-ft. garden planted with tomatoes, carrots, snap beans, peas, celery, spinach, lettuce, parsley and beets can produce about $350 worth of fresh vegetables at today's prices. Any surplus can be home-canned or frozen...
...elderly Albuquerque couple, lounging in the backyard one cool New Mexico evening, heard a roar from above. Then a light appeared, focusing with terrifying intensity on the man and woman. A UFO? Hallucination? Not at all. The source was the Albuquerque police department's "spy in the sky" plane on a routine patrol. "It scared the world out of us," the man said later. "It reminded us of George Orwell's 1984." The low-flying craft operates by daylight too. A woman complained that she could no longer sunbathe on her roof because the plane kept circling overhead...
...their long-languishing downtown branches are jammed with customers unwilling to motor to far-flung suburban shopping centers. Department stores report strong sales of books, games, television sets and other aids to a quiet evening at home. Other hot items include furniture, household hardware, seeds and garden supplies, and backyard swimming pools. "People are paying more attention to their homes," explains G. John Doces, president of Seattle's Doces furniture chain. "Home, Sweet Home is back...