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Missing Nature’s Daytime Show? Just Wait …
Spring is a busy time for gardeners, farmers, and people whose lives involve gardening and agriculture. And we often are…
Tick Tock: What you need to know about ticks in Northern Illinois
Instead of all the hoopla about the totally innocuous periodical cicada emergence, I wish the media would focus on something…
Rainy Days for these Carpenters can mean saying goodbye to wood in homes
Ah, the ‘70s, the time of my (and maybe your) youth. I loved The Carpenters, the duo. But there is…
Garden Up! Space-saving structures for your garden
It inevitably happens every few years, I get a call from someone growing grapes or the perennial flower vines wisteria…
When your cabbages become cue balls and other spring pests
It happens every year about this time. People point out their excitement about seeing those first butterflies of spring. Maybe…
The Lawn Ranger Returns … but timing is everything
Yesterday, when planting some onion sets with 40 K-2 students, several of them were more interested in picking dandelions than…
Don’t cry … Onion growing easy and delicious!
Besides asparagus, there is nothing that signals spring vegetable gardening to me more than growing some sweet, mild green onions…
Grow your own tacos: thoughts on themed container gardens
We are on the precipice of gardening season now, and gardeners are preparing for what I call our Olympics, ‘tis…
Sugar snap, snow and shelling — Spring is time for peas!
Each season has its signature vegetables. I can’t think of summer without almost tasting a just-picked tomato or that smell…
Peek-a-boo, did frost get you? Bud blast
Ahhh, Mother Nature … you and your fickle thermostat. First, you lure us into this non-winter winter, then you dial…
Just don’t do it …Turf under trees is a no-win situation
There are a few questions that are considered “regulars” every year. One of the most common concerns turf and trees.…
One for all, all for one — Insights on Plant Breeding
It is meteorological spring, and Mother Nature is back at it using her thermostat like a roulette wheel. But she…