Home and Garden
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Late summer a good time to add blooming perennialsAug 25, 2007 11:00 pm - Is your perennial garden winding down along with the summer? It doesn't have to be that way. Now is a great time to spark up the border with some late-flowering perennia...
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Simple vegetable patch turns into a bumper cropAug 25, 2007 11:00 pm - Over the span of 30 years, Pinky and Irma Schroeder had their share of disagreements over his "back 80." It's not that she minds her husband's hobby, in fact, she believ...
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Garden sets stage for Batavia artistAug 20, 2007 11:00 pm - I recently met Kathy and Haydon McPartland when I did a story on the Plain Dirt Gardeners' Garden Walk. The McPartlands' garden at their home on North Prairie Street was...
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Gardening a badge of honor for ScoutsAug 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Sprouts and gardens go hand and hand. Rarely do they include neckerchiefs. Or badges. Grayslake is breaking new ground, though, by throwing Scouts in the mix with its ve...
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Produce donations help clients struggling to get byJul 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Everything the Giving Garden program stands for starts with the people served by food pantries throughout the area. It's all about the clients. Too often, those living...
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Scout doing good garden deeds as part of projectsJul 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Rarely do people credit the Easter Bunny with making surprise deliveries of fresh, nutritious food. Chocolate and those marshmallow-y things, yes. Broccoli? Not so much....
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Include cheat sheet with unusual veggiesJul 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Ever cooked a patty pan squash? Yeah, me neither. In fact, I'd never even seen one until one of the Giving Garden drop-off sites called and asked if I knew the origin o...
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Garden volunteers ever vigilantJul 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Some people fight with their tomatoes. No, really. It's often a battle just to keep them alive. This is not the case for 400 students who planted their garden this sprin...
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Man's passion helps grow church gardenJul 07, 2007 11:00 pm - Frank Peavy pondered a world without hunger over his fence line. The passionate gardener just knew his friends at church would help the community's neediest residents if...
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Budding gardeners learn a lesson about plantsJun 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Anne Nagro isn't one to turn away a tomato plant. What about 80 to the garden at Woodland Elementary West School in Gages Lake. tomato plants -- all presented by smiling...