Articles filed under Home & Garden
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Tips on how best to winterize your gardenOct 28, 2010 11:00 pm - It is a good idea to sharpen and clean garden tools when putting them away for the season. Well-maintained tools make gardening much easier. Use pegboard on your garage ...
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Nature museum goes out on a limb with new exhibitOct 28, 2010 11:00 pm - When a recent study found that kids weren't developing an appreciation for trees, the Arbor Day Foundation knew it had to take action. The not-for-profit organization he...
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Marigold marks the Day of the DeadOct 28, 2010 11:00 pm - The flower now called Mexican marigold was known to the Aztecs as Yauhtli, or “the fog.” Some say imbibing its alkaloids fogged the human brain. Aztec priests blew a dri...
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Build your landscape with a structure in mindOct 24, 2010 1:00 am - A landscape can be developed in a variety of ways. One of the easiest is to think about it in the same sense as a house. At its most basic a house consists of walls, cei...
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Stickley tilt-top table would draw little at auctionOct 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Q. I have inherited a 24-inch tilt-top table with the burned-in name “Stickley Fayetteville Syracuse." My preliminary research tells me that several Stickley compani...
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Mulch perennials after ground freezesOct 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Q. I noticed my neighbor applying mulch to many of the perennials in his garden. I remember reading somewhere that you should not apply mulch too early. Is that true...
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Historic Batavia home adorned like the treasure 'she' isOct 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Beyond the large double doors of the home of Keith and Rebecca Ersfeld is a peaceful sanctuary, a place that is decorated with the eye of an artist who values the treasu...
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Tomato contest winners cite good see, organic methodOct 21, 2010 11:00 pm - It took a little ingenuity, but with some veteran gardening skills and a rare German tomato seed, an Arlington Heights man produced a winner, and took home his $100 priz...
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Professor sets the rules for rude studentsOct 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Q. I am a college professor at a small university, and I have had several students take a snippy, rude or highhanded tone with me. When offering a range of times a...
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Your news: S. Barrington Scouts help at Home of the SparrowOct 19, 2010 11:00 pm - The South Barrington Garden Club, along with seven Boy Scouts from Barrington area Troop 10 and their parents, spent a weekend morning digging and planting at one of the...