Home and Garden
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Here's crop of Plant a Row workshopsApr 24, 2004 11:00 pm - Here is a schedule of Plant a Row for the Hungry workshops at the Morton Arboretum: May 8: One Pot Gardening • Vegetables in a Pot, Mayo Underwood of Underwood Gar...
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Weighing inSep 28, 2003 11:00 pm - We've got to hand it to you. You came through with a whopping 60,343 pounds of fresh produce during this summer's Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign. That's more than ...
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Community plots give gardener room to growSep 28, 2003 11:00 pm - It all started with sod. That led, as it so often does, to a small home garden. Lured in by the simpler tasks surrounding his new Gurnee home, he found himself progressi...
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Nursery lends helping hand to Plant a Row campaignAug 30, 2003 11:00 pm - Getting back to gardening's roots means exploring a time when people worked the land they lived on and helped their neighbors through tough times. With that notion in mi...
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Daughter puts her plant training to good useAug 23, 2003 11:00 pm - Julie Schwartz didn't have much interest in working her family's vegetable garden. Just ask her mother. "Can we ever get her to help in the garden? Nooooo," Susan Schwar...
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Gardener grows into role helping the hungryAug 02, 2003 11:00 pm - What's the point of retiring if you can't do what you enjoy, Mel Zuehlke reasons. Working a full-time job never left him enough time to give gardening his undivided atte...
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Island of plentyJul 26, 2003 11:00 pm - Few people have the luxury, or space, to maintain a small fruit orchard in their back yards these days. An apple tree here and there is more like it. Still, it would pro...
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Here's the lineup of speakersJul 26, 2003 11:00 pm - These are the participants in Plant a Row for the Hungry day, Aug. 3, at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe: Pesche's Garden Center will display examples of conta...
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Congregation's efforts reap harvest of plentyJul 19, 2003 11:00 pm - It's rather unusual these days to see a 1948 Ford tractor plowing a field in the heart of Mount Prospect. If you take a stroll past the South Church Community Baptist si...
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Now here's a class students really digJul 12, 2003 11:00 pm - Honors English classes rarely include gardening as a course assignment. Planting peas and squash, after all, doesn't usually further college-level analysis of literature...