Home and Garden
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How to keep your containers healthy lookingAug 08, 2021 7:00 am - If the plants growing in your containers or baskets are looking stunted or have leaves that are yellowing, they may need supplemental fertilizer. The frequent watering r...
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How Elk Grove man is working to help struggling butterfliesAug 08, 2021 6:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: Ned Bruns has built a butterfly playgrou...
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Suburban Skyview: Digging into a community garden in Arlington HeightsAug 08, 2021 5:30 am - A large portion of land on the north end of Frontier Park in Arlington Heights is the home for 36 equal plots, rented each summer to suburban gardeners. The plots borde...
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How to chop remodeling costs when wood prices are high
Aug 07, 2021 6:00 am - Wood costs have skyrocketed over the last year, leaving would-be home renovators to choose between waiting in price purgatory or moving forward and possibly overpaying. ...
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MCC's new agriculture program has successful first yearAug 05, 2021 11:00 pm - McHenry County College is getting ready to welcome a new crop of Entrepreneurial Agriculture students this fall. The program, which trained its first group of students ...
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Saving the monarchy: How an Elk Grove Village man is working to help struggling butterfliesAug 03, 2021 5:30 am - Ned Bruns has built a butterfly playground with a purpose in his Elk Grove Village backyard. “The monarchs are in great decline,” Bruns said in explaining that purpose. ...
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There are countless ways to curate your collectionAug 01, 2021 7:00 am - Editor's note: Joseph Pubillones is taking some time off. This column originally published in 2017. My first collection or attempt at displaying items as a child wa...
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Who's at fault? A 2-bedroom house sold as a 3-bedroom house - what can buyer do?Jul 29, 2021 6:00 am - Q: We just bought a three-bedroom home. A month later, we learned that one of the bedrooms was a garage that was converted without a permit. No one disclosed this during...
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Special sensory garden opening in Hanover ParkJul 28, 2021 5:30 am - A new community garden opening outside the offices of the Hanover Park Park District is attempting to engage all the senses of visitors. More than just pretty flowers an...
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Local Realtors beautify Naperville's Commissioners Park with pollinator plantsJul 27, 2021 11:00 pm - A group of Realtors from Century 21 Affiliated of Naperville gathered with a few friends from the service organization PEO (Philanthropic Education Association) to add p...