Articles filed under Home & Garden
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How can I get my stubborn screen door sliding smoothly again?Sep 02, 2025 12:58 pm - My sliding screen door no longer operates smoothly on its track. How can I make it glide smoothly?
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Turn your garden harvest into a peck of pickled peppers. Or cukes. Even watermelon rindsSep 02, 2025 12:43 pm - Don’t have the patience for pressure canning? Pickling fruits and vegetables is a good way to preserve your harvest.
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Gardening's hidden benefits: How digging in the dirt could bolster mental well-beingSep 02, 2025 11:45 am - Research suggests gardening can reduce stress and lift mood, with benefits increasing the more regularly one gardens.
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Learn seed saving techniques at Lombard Garden Club eventSep 01, 2025 8:59 pm - Paul Velat will discuss techniques for saving viable seeds, determining viability, methods, timing, etc. at a free Lombard Garden Club event on Sept. 15.
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Inside the $7M project to save Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic masterpieceAug 27, 2025 10:59 am - For the past two years, staff at Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s many-terraced masterpiece in the woods of Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands, have been overseeing a $7 million renovation.
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Sometimes growth in the garden means going smallAug 26, 2025 6:37 pm - Downsizing a large garden over time helped one man to find calm and satisfaction, realizing that personal growth is not always about expansion.
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Is there a DIY repair option for my water-damaged kitchen cabinets?Aug 26, 2025 3:02 pm - The cabinets under my kitchen sink are showing water damage. Short of refinishing, is there a way to repair them?
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A Berlin garden of flavorsome herbs revives a monastic health tradition from the Middle AgesAug 26, 2025 2:23 pm - In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Rötzel is breathing new life into a tradition of centuries past: the monastery garden.
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Should I buy a red-tagged home?Aug 26, 2025 12:57 pm - I've made an offer on an unpermitted home that was red-tagged 10 years ago, but I don’t want to get stuck with a vacant lot. Can the building department eventually order its removal?
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How to overwinter annuals, avoid wasp stings and train espaliersAug 26, 2025 11:19 am - It is time to take cuttings of annuals like geraniums and begonias to preserve them for winter.