Articles filed under Gardening
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Get your yard ready for the planting seasonMay 05, 2019 7:00 am - After a few warm spring days, we often let spring fever take over when ordering plants from catalogs and buying plants from garden centers. Take the time to select plant...
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Seed heads give perennials another season of bloomMay 05, 2019 7:00 am - Gardeners favor perennials that bloom a long time, contributing color to the garden or containers. But there are also perennials whose spent flowers transform into delig...
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Give your flower and veggie seedlings some tough loveMay 04, 2019 6:00 am - Seedlings raised on windowsills or in greenhouses have been coddled to some degree and aren't ready to face the great outdoors. A temporary period called “hardening off”...
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Want to help bees? Plant flowering herbsMay 03, 2019 6:00 am - Herbs are among the most useful plants in nature. They can tantalize the taste buds, help cure what ails you, oil the body, perfume the air, and attract bees, butterflie...
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St. Hugh of Lincoln to host spring plant, craft and bake sale May 11Apr 29, 2019 11:00 pm - On Saturday, May 11, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church, 36W957 Highland Ave. in Elgin, is hosting a "Spring Plant, Craft, and Bake Sale" from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Vi...
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No need for a vegetable garden to grow vegetablesApr 28, 2019 7:00 am - Space-challenged gardeners without room for gardens designated solely for growing vegetables need only look as far as their perennial borders. Many vegetable plants flau...
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Lengthy, windy winter may have damaged your evergreensApr 28, 2019 7:00 am - The winter damage to evergreens continues to become more visible in gardens and the damage may continue to worsen once there is an extended period of warm weather. Your...
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Greasy food is no good for a worm binApr 28, 2019 6:00 am - Q. I followed your advice and started a worm bin. But I am having problems with the bin smelling, attracting fruit flies and the worms are climbing the sides of the bin....
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Five tools gardening experts can't live withoutApr 27, 2019 7:00 am - Kelly Smith Trimble, editorial director of HGTV.com and author of "Vegetable Gardening Wisdom: Daily Advice and Inspiration for Getting the Most from Your Garden," has a...
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5 herbs to know and growApr 26, 2019 6:00 am - April is the month to plant herbs — in pots, in raised beds, in designated herb gardens — and, like spring itself, these aromatic jewels speak to the promise of the grow...