内容摘要：Any food-safe container with a lid that can hold roughly 3 inches of potting mix will do. Plastic milk and water jugs are popular choices, as are takeout containers and clamshell salad packages.

Any food-safe container with a lid that can hold roughly 3 inches of potting mix will do. Plastic milk and water jugs are popular choices, as are takeout containers and clamshell salad packages.

When selecting any plant for your property, it’s important to put the right plant in the right place. So Tallamy advises matching up yourand growing conditions with an appropriate oak species.

,” he said. “There are oaks that like base soil. There are oaks that like rocky outcrops and ones that like bottomland.”and the sunlight exposure of the site.“If you put an oak in the front yard in the mid-Atlantic states, for example, it’s going to support 557 species of caterpillars, and all of those are

And I can’t think of a better reason to plant an oak this Arbor Day.Jessica Damiano writes weekly gardening columns for the AP and publishes the award-winning Weekly Dirt Newsletter. You can sign up

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For more AP gardening stories, go toYet, there was the open-air popemobile driving through a Muslim-majority neighborhood of Bangui, a zone off-limits to Christians, with the pope crossing a line many feared amid a yearslong civil war.

An imam at his side, Francis removed his shoes, bowed his head and entered a mosque,people to “say ‘no’ to hatred, vengeance and violence, especially that committed in the name of a religion or God.”

The episode is being recalled by Catholics as they weigh the pontiff’s legacy throughout Africa, a continent where the faith is growing rapidly and where, unlike Francis, the priesthood leans deeply conservative.The airplane carrying Pope Francis lands in Bangui, Central African Republic, Nov. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)