Home and Garden
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Harsh summer testing veteran gardenerAug 01, 2005 11:00 pm - With six children, 14 grandchildren and a whole lot of neighbors, Floyd Lundeen is well acquainted with the concept of sharing his garden's bounty. For decades, the Elk ...
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Fresh fruits, veggies filled with nutrientsJul 24, 2005 11:00 pm - The taste benefits of fresh vegetables are obvious. There's just no comparison between something that's newly picked and something that's been sitting frozen in a plasti...
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Experts provide bumper crop of adviceMay 14, 2005 11:00 pm - Now that you've got your garden beds all prepped, what in the world do you plant? Some vegetables are easier to manage than others. We've picked some relatively simple o...
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Time to get growingMay 14, 2005 11:00 pm - Vegetable gardeners start out with big dreams. They picture juicy red tomatoes on strong, healthy vines. They imagine tall green stalks bearing crisp ears of corn. They...
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Adverse conditions don't deter Plant a Row gardenersOct 16, 2004 11:00 pm - Forget the best of times: Most summer vegetable gardens in the area went through the worst of times. A cold, rainy spring deterred many gardeners. When folks finally did...
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Plant A Row for the Hungry numbersOct 16, 2004 11:00 pm - Here's how the agencies participating locally in Plant a Row for the Hungry fared this year, and the number of pounds of produce that gardeners donated this year and in ...
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A day for sharingSep 06, 2004 11:00 pm - If there's any one thing common to gardeners, it is their never-ending quest to improve. They want stronger plants, better yields, fewer diseases, new varieties and the ...
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Plant a Row for the Hungry DaySep 06, 2004 11:00 pm - The Regenstein Fruit and Vegetable Island at the Chicago Botanic Garden will be filled with experts next Sunday to help improve your home vegetable gardens. Here's the s...
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Gardener provides campaign with steady supply of veggiesAug 29, 2004 11:00 pm - Chubby cucumbers are the veggies du jour in George Tresnak's Elburn garden. He doesn't grow skinny ones - just big chubby ones. And they grow in abundance. That's a good...
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Plant a Row a perfect place for extra produceAug 12, 2004 11:00 pm - A farm girl at heart, Karen Belt loathes seeing vegetables rotting on the vine. Food is too important to waste. "That''s the way you survived on a farm was to plant thes...