Articles filed under Home & Garden
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What are you hiding behind that beautiful screen?Aug 08, 2021 7:01 am - Editor's note: Joseph Pubillones is taking some time off. This column originally published in 2017. The decorative folding screen has become a common interior furnishing...
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Start now to get another growing season out of your gardenAug 08, 2021 7:00 am - The same hot weather that brings out the best in tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and other summer vegetables makes spinach, lettuce, peas and other cool-weather vegetables ...
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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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Window awnings reduce energy usageAug 07, 2021 6:00 am - Q: I have always liked the appearance of window awnings. The salesman told me installing them can also save a lot of energy. Do they really save much energy and what awn...
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Historic home unveiling: Geneva church to show off renovations to 1854 houseAug 06, 2021 6:00 am - You can tell David Walker is a project coordinator when he walks around the renovated Larrabee House on St. Mark's Church campus near downtown Geneva. “We need to get th...
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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...