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Growing Your Own Groceries Not Always Cheap or Easy
The egg prices have been in the news for several months now, and occasionally I will have people ask me…
White, yellow, red, green, candy and more — All about Onions
Onions — as strong as the flavor and smell can be is the opinion people have about them. I am…
Spring, and the hills are alive … literally
Spring has either sprung (meteorologically, March 1) or will soon be springing (astronomically, March 20). But some things are popping…
Ready, set, grow! Getting the jump on Mother Nature where you can
There are some garden topics that I feel a need to repeat every year. Because no matter how many times…
Is your aunt, I mean, ant visiting soon?
Well, the big thaw is on, and as the soil warms up, so do the insects that spent their winters…
Late February tasks: Bring some in, take some out
We are almost there, teetering on the edge … of Meteorological Spring. But wait, there are some activities you can…
Mid-February and the garden is waking up … or is it?
It is so tempting, isn’t it? That first whiff of spring soil smell, maybe a robin chortling in the distance?…
Time to Take an Agonizing Reappraisal of Your Garden
For the gardener, February brings dazzling dreams of the garden season ahead. By now, your mailbox has been stuffed with…
It’s ‘False Spring’, Time for those late-winter gardening tasks
We sure had a few brief spurts of the wrath of Mother Nature this winter, but now with the above…
Our fidgety, funky little songbird of winter
by Nancy Kuhajda Spring is a mere 56 days away, and as I wrote about last week, every year, sightings…
Seeing Robins Now? It’s All Good
Why are we seeing robins now? Don’t they usually wait till Spring! What nature-lover doesn’t like to engage in a…
January in the garden – do’s and don’ts
Many people think there is not much going on in gardening, well, at least outside gardening, in Will County in…