Home and Garden
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Tomato contest winners cite good see, organic methodOct 21, 2010 11:00 pm - It took a little ingenuity, but with some veteran gardening skills and a rare German tomato seed, an Arlington Heights man produced a winner, and took home his $100 priz...
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Professor sets the rules for rude studentsOct 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Q. I am a college professor at a small university, and I have had several students take a snippy, rude or highhanded tone with me. When offering a range of times a...
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Your news: S. Barrington Scouts help at Home of the SparrowOct 19, 2010 11:00 pm - The South Barrington Garden Club, along with seven Boy Scouts from Barrington area Troop 10 and their parents, spent a weekend morning digging and planting at one of the...
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Home and garden calendarOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Expos, shows, festivals bull; Fall Farm Fest 2010, Spring Bluff Nursery, 41W130 Norris Road, Sugar Grove, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 16-17. Includes pumpkin fields, pum...
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Sleek shiny and new: Designers share top picks for color, form and functionOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - It's Kitchen & Bath month, time to learn what shiny new products are out there when we're lucky enough to remodel our kitchen or bath or maybe install a kitchenette in a...
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Morton Arboretum now awash in fall colorsOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Fireworks of fall color await you at The Morton Arboretum. Seventeen hundred beautiful acres feature 186,000 trees and other plants formally registered into the living c...
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Time to cook with squash and pumpkinOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - My favorite time of year? Right now. Along with turning of the leaves and the crunch of dried leaves on the ground, it is the time for pumpkins and squash. I find it ha...
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Learn about flower arrangements at Wheeling Garden ClubOct 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The Wheeling Garden Club will host guest speaker Mari Mackenback at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at the club's meeting at the Wheeling Pavilion Senior Center, 199 N. Fi...
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Spend time working now for a beautiful garden in 2011Oct 07, 2010 11:00 pm - This year's gardening season may be coming to an end, but savvy gardeners know that fall is a great time to start preparing for next year's growing season. Taking the ti...
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Winterize your geraniums to save them for next yearOct 07, 2010 11:00 pm - There are several ways to save geraniums: store plants as bare roots, pot the plants or take cuttings. Gardeners have success with these methods but there is no assuran...