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Tractor Supply opens fifth Tucson-area location

Tractor Supply Co. has opened its fifth Tucson-area store, this one on the city’s southeast side.

The new location has a garden center with an expanded assortment of annuals and perennials, shrubs and decorative plants, fruit trees, vegetables, herbs and gardening tools.

It also has a pet wash station with elevated wash bays, grooming tables, specialty shampoos, brushes, combs and towels as well as a waterproof apron and professional dryer, which can be used for $9.99.

Other items available at the new location include riding mowers, equine supplies, power tools, fencing and welding.

The store also carries apparel.

“Homeowners, livestock and pet owners, gardeners, hobby farmers, ranchers, tradesmen and others rely on Tractor Supply for a wide assortment of products,” said David Williams, the district manager of the Tucson Tractor Supply store. “We’re excited to call Tucson home and serve the community with the essentials you need.”

People are also

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If a soil test calls for it, apply lime to your garden in November

The long-term weather forecast is calling for a continuing string of nice days through Thanksgiving Day. Many gardeners will be able to catch up on garden projects that they may have been putting off. One of these projects that often gets overlooked is liming the garden soil.

If you have been fertilizing your garden regularly with conventional fertilizers for several years in a row, chances are your soil may need lime. November is an ideal time to apply lime.

Lime is a calcium-based soil amendment that farmers and gardeners use to raise the soil pH. Older farmers used to refer to it as “sweetening the soil.”

It’s not a good idea to just guess if your soil pH is low, soil should be tested.

To test for pH only, you can do it yourself with a pH test kit from a garden center. These kits are fairly accurate. Just make

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What It’s Like to Shop at Ikea’s Mini Plan and Order Stores

  • Ikea is embarking on a $2 billion expansion of its US operations.
  • Part of Ikea’s strategy is a new, smaller store for shoppers redesigning whole rooms.
  • I visited one of these new stores to see what it’s like to shop there.

Ikea is spending billions to expand in the US, and a big part of its plans rest on small stores.

Most shoppers probably think of huge warehouses filled with everything from kitchen towels to coffee tables to Swedish meatballs when they think of the retailer. But in a $2 billion initiative it announced earlier this year, Ikea said that it would open nine “plan-and-order” stores in the US.

Each store is a fraction of the size of the Ikea you’re probably used to. While an

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Garden Retailer Plans 100K SF Project in Collin County

Green Acres Nursery has come up with plans for the 10-acre it recently purchased in Collin County, which will soon be sprouting a $14 million retail center.

The new Green Acres Nursery & Supply in the town of Melissa will cover 99,000 square feet, according to state filings. Construction is expected to start next spring. 

The project is located at 1818 Fannin Road, where a single-family home previously stood. The new development will comprise a 25,300-square-foot retail building, a 5,000-square-foot warehouse and 68,400 square feet of greenhouse structures.

The new build is one of the first additions to the 10-acre tract that the California-based company acquired in June. Located in the rapidly expanding town of Melissa, approximately an hour’s drive north of Dallas, it is set to become Green Acre’s second Texas location, following the recent opening of a store in Irving. The company also has acquired sites in Southlake

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How much do the Home Depot prefab houses cost? How big are they?

The real estate market has recently been a tough one for prospective home owners, with their dream house seeming to be drifting further away from reach.

The Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes have made taking out a mortgage more and more unattainable. Renting a place is not the cheapest choice either, with typical asking rents now at $2,018.

These factors have made both owning and renting a home prohibitive, which is probably why Home Depot’s little prefab houses caused the commotion that they did.

The store is offering prefabricated homes that sell from a low of $4,000 to more than $40,000.

READ ALSO: Wall Street builds its presence in the US housing market

Home Depot’s prefab houses: A mini-getaway

A Twitter user posted an image of one such tiny house on the platform and asked for opinions on the one-bedroom, one-bathroom 540 square-foot house,

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Hydroponic Gardening Is Growing Strong


If home-grown greens sound more appealing than the imported store-bought variety, but you don’t want to wait until spring to start planting seeds, hydroponic indoor gardens will ensure you have fresh organic produce all year. 

Using water instead of soil, these cutting-edge planters are designed to fit every home, whether you’re looking for a discrete herb-garden on a kitchen countertop, or a triple-decker vertical farm to create an eye-catching contemporary living room that can help feed the whole family.

Compact, eco-friendly, and fuss-free, hydroponic home gardens are primed to be the next must-have amenity.

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“In the near future, the ability to grow your own produce, either in your own home or within the building, is going to be an expectation and eventually a standard,” says Stephen Kliegerman, president of Brown Harris Stevens Development
Marketing, who often suggests high-end buildings incorporate hydroponic

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Tractor Supply: Amazing Company – Not So Amazing Valuation (NASDAQ:TSCO)

Two thoroughbred horses grazing in a field with horse barn in the background.

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Introduction

Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:NASDAQ:TSCO) has long been on my watch list, but I never managed to pick it up. Having just returned from the US, I came across a couple of stores, and naturally felt inspired to have a closer look at this niche retailer, who consistently posts strong economics but also, more often than not, trades at a valuation premium.

Who is Tractor Supply Company?

Tractor Supply Company was founded in 1938, 84 years ago, and has served its niche of farmers, ranchers and those enjoying the rural lifestyle, ever since. The company operates just above 2000 physical Tractor Supply stores across 49 states and is by far the most significant retailer in its niche in the US, focusing on meeting the needs of customers within home improvement, agriculture, livestock as well as lawn and garden maintenance. Stores typically

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Home Depot Expands Industrial Portfolio

Prologues' Hamid Moghadam, Duke Realty's Jim Connor, Home Depot's Edward Decker; 13131 Los Angeles Street in Irwindale (Prologue, Duke Realty, Home Depot, Getty)
Prologues’ Hamid Moghadam, Duke Realty’s Jim Connor, Home Depot’s Edward Decker; 13131 Los Angeles Street in Irwindale (Prologue, Duke Realty, Home Depot, Getty)

Move over Amazon.com, Home Depot is the new belle of the ball for industrial developers.

The Atlanta-based chain, among other home improvement and construction retailers, is absorbing millions of square feet of warehouse space, as it moves to adjust its supply chain and have more goods in storage. And the company has become an attractive tenant for industrial developers, including Prologis, Duke Realty and Clarion Partners.

In Los Angeles and the Inland Empire alone, Home Depot has signed more than 4.5 million square feet worth of industrial leases so far this year, according to public property records reviewed by TRD.

“It speaks to more consumption, more need for floor space and a supply chain issue,” said CBRE’s Daniel de la Paz. “That extra inventory and getting

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Everyday Cheapskate: 4 recipes for homemade DIY lawn and garden fertilizer

I love a beautiful yard, but I hate spending a lot of money to get it that way, which explains why I am always looking for do-it-yourself, cheap ways to kill weeds, grow flowers and feed lawns.

I have come across some very clever tips and tricks, not the least of which is to reclassify the dandelion as a low-maintenance, hearty ground cover. While you ponder that suggestion, take a look at these clever ideas to make your own landscape supplies.

LAWN FOOD

In a large bin or bucket, mix 4 pounds of magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts) with a bag of your favorite lawn food that covers 2,500 square feet. Now, feed your lawn the same amount of this mixture as recommended on the lawn food bag. You’ll save a lot of money because you’ll be using only half the normal amount of fertilizer. Plus, this formulation cuts down

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4 Recipes for Homemade DIY Lawn and Garden Fertilizer, by Mary Hunt

I love a beautiful yard, but I hate spending a lot of money to get it that way, which explains why I am always looking for do-it-yourself, cheap ways to kill weeds, grow flowers and feed lawns.

I have come across some very clever tips and tricks, not the least of which is to reclassify the dandelion as a low-maintenance, hearty ground cover. While you ponder that suggestion, take a look at these clever ideas to make your own landscape supplies.

LAWN FOOD

In a large bin or bucket, mix 4 pounds of magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts) with a bag of your favorite lawn food that covers 2,500 square feet. Now, feed your lawn the same amount of this mixture as recommended on the lawn food bag. You’ll save a lot of money because you’ll be using only half the normal amount of fertilizer. Plus, this formulation cuts down on

… Read the rest