Articles filed under Home & Garden
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Some favorite garden vegetables attract pollinators, tooMar 03, 2019 6:00 am - Planting clumps of bright, successively blooming flowers is a popular method for attracting foraging pollinators like bees and butterflies. But savvy vegetable and fruit...
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Emergence of white snowdrops are first sign of springMar 03, 2019 6:00 am - After a winter like the one Chicagoans have just endured, the first signs of spring are especially welcome. In my garden, it is the first snowdrops that lift my spirits ...
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Fruit trees benefit from late winter pruningMar 03, 2019 5:00 am - A good time to prune fruit trees is late February or early March, before the buds begin to swell. A tree's branching habits are easy to see, and the weather is generally...
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Forget formal spaces in your current or future home — focus on functional and funMar 02, 2019 10:00 pm - Living and dining are essential actions that occur in every residence. But having rooms named after and devoted, respectively, to each has become passe nowadays for many...
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How to get squirrels out of atticMar 02, 2019 6:00 am - Q. My home problem is squirrels in my ceiling. My home is very old and there is no opening for a person to get into the attic. There is an opening in the back of the hou...
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Room above garage is too cold in winterMar 01, 2019 12:00 am - Q. I do projects in my garage that has a bedroom above it. The old metal garage door is leaky and has no insulation, so I should replace it with an efficient one. What t...
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Lilies add a pop of color in tight garden spacesFeb 28, 2019 10:00 pm - When you have been gardening on the same property for many years, like I have, you begin to run out of room for new plants in beds and borders. Adding lilies is one way ...
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Kick off gardening season at Victory Garden Seed Swap in BataviaFeb 26, 2019 10:00 pm - I grew up in Batavia and spent a lot of time with my grandparents. My grandfather gardened In his spare time, and my grandmother preserved everything that came from the ...
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Learn about antique apple tree grafting at March 3 seminarFeb 24, 2019 10:00 pm - Learn to grow antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 32nd annual Antique Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3. For $30, participants make thr...
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Dough box is a piece of primitive furnitureFeb 24, 2019 6:01 am - Q. This is a photo of a table my mother-in-law gave me. She called it a dough box. It has a removable lid, measures 29 inches long, is 16 inches deep and is 22 inches hi...