Lifestyle

Hello readers and friends of the Mountaineer Echo, I hope this week finds everyone in good health and happy spirits. This week has been a rough week. I had to have minor surgery and it ended up going worse that I thought.

August is knocking on our front door and August is a great time to plant some grass seed. Here are some favorites for you to consider if you are going to plant some grass. Bermuda grass, Centipede grass, St. Augustine grass, tall Fescue and Zoysia grass are the most popular choices for Arkansas, with Bermuda grass being the most used turfgrass.

Have a Heart would like to introduce you to Peanut! He is an eight-week-old male Siberian Husky mix who currently weighs 8.1 pounds. Mama was a Husky mix and Daddy was a traveling man so we cannot be certain of the other breed.

A few weeks ago I wrote about setting deadfalls to control small predators from weasels to raccoons. Deadfalls sets are illegal and in this time of over-populations of the egg eaters that keep quail numbers low and impact wild turkey numbers, they should be put in use.

Poor flowering and misshapen or a lack of fruit on tomatoes, peppers and squash may be due to the weather, not your gardening skills. Temperature extremes can interfere with flowering and fruit set on these and other vegetables in your garden.

Mountain View — The Ozark Folk Center State Park is hosting a “Handcrafted Evening in the Park” on Friday, July 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

They flit across your face, hover near your houseplants, or gather by the window. Fortunately, these fungus gnat insects are more annoying to us than harmful to our plants.