After talking about it for years, I finally did it, I made a trough. But I can't really take credit, because I'd still be saying, "Oh, we should really do that," if Ann Murphy hadn't tired of my wishy ...

In October, I made my first hypertufa troughs from a mix of peat moss, perlite, Portland cement, and water. Extremely durable once they set up, the resulting containers look similar to carved stone.

A webinar class on trough gardening will be offered beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, at the Iowa State University Extension & Outreach/Scott County office, 875 Tanglefoot Lane, Bettendorf.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A mirror alignment measurement device, invented by Rich Diver, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, ...