Articles filed under Gardening
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Lake Barrington woman seeks medal for relativeMay 03, 2014 11:00 pm - Persuading the White House to dole out a 2014 Presidential Citizens Medal to a guy who made a name for himself in the 1800s selling seeds and sowing good deeds may seem ...
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Schaumburg Garden Club to hold plant sale SundayMay 02, 2014 1:01 am - Members of the Schaumburg Community Garden Club spent Thursday and Friday busily preparing for their native plant sale this weekend at Spring Valley Nature Center, 1111 ...
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Eating organic: Plants like it tooApr 30, 2014 5:45 am - To get the most out of any organic fertilizer, keep in mind how plants feed and how these fertilizers act in the soil. The bulk of a plant's feeder roots - whether it's...
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Heartier plants save time in the yardApr 26, 2014 5:45 am - It makes homeowners feel good when their yards look like showpieces without taking a lot of time because that gives them more time with their families. So more and more ...
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Bee-friendly garden can help struggling speciesApr 25, 2014 5:30 am - Bees are pulling a disappearing act. Honeybees are vanishing from their hives. Bumblebee numbers have crashed so radically that some species are believed extinct. Even n...
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Time to clean up your gardenApr 23, 2014 1:01 am - It still is not too late to remove garden debris from beds and cut back perennials if you are running late with your garden cleanup. However, the perennials will have be...
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Take time to select right plantsApr 21, 2014 1:01 am - After a long Chicago winter, it is easy to let spring fever take over when ordering plants from catalogs and buying plants from garden centers. For a successful garden, ...
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Only 'true leaves' can make food for plantsApr 21, 2014 1:01 am - Q. On the directions for some seeds I started, it said to transplant them into larger containers when the first true leaves appear. What do they mean by "first true leav...
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Try planting these deer-proof bulbs this yearApr 19, 2014 5:30 am - Chomping down on a rosette of freshly emerging tulip leaves is just the thing to drive away winter doldrums - for deer. Crocuses probably taste almost as good to them. ...
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Benign neglect? Garden pest control naturallyApr 10, 2014 5:30 am - Gardeners worried about the safety of synthetic pest-control products sometimes turn to botanically derived compounds instead. But many of those also contain toxic ingre...