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Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, May 6,2010
Plan ahead to plant the right tree
Selecting a tree is one of the most important landscape decisions a homeowner will make. Trees should be considered as an investment for the future, since most people move before a tree that they plan
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, April 29,2010
Native plants like it here
Illinois, known as the “Prairie State,” has several native plant species. Prior to European settlers in Illinois, 60 percent of the 22 million acres was prairie. Today less than one hundre
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, April 22,2010
Plant anywhere you have space and sun
Vegetable gardening can provide the grower many benefits including exercise, a break from the stress of everyday life, decrease in the weekly food bill, nutritious produce that tastes better and is fr
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, October 1,2009
Here’s what’s sweet about sweet potatoes
This weekend the anticipation became unbearable. I finally had to dig a hill of sweet potatoes in our garden. They looked beautiful and tasted great. Soon, we will dig all 50 plants and surely have an
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, September 3,2009
A prairie plant for your landscape
Prior to European settlers in Illinois, 60 percent of the 22 million acres was prairie. Today less than one hundredth of one percent of the original undisturbed prairie exists in the Prairie State. So
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, August 27,2009
Get on the scales
Sticky stuff? Black magnolia leaves? Here’s what to do.
One of the worst things to tell a gardener is that their tree is heavily infested with a destructive insect. The U of I Extension office has received numerous calls about magnolia trees. A caller usua
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, August 13,2009
Fair flowers
Color everywhere — up and down and in the ground
Among the tents, livestock buildings, corndog and lemonade stands at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, fairgoers can see a wide variety of colorful plants. Just inside gate 2, visitors are greeted by ch
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, July 2,2009
Be mean to weeds
Here's what to do about plants out of place
Last week in between the rain showers, I finally had the opportunity to tend to
my flower beds. While not the most enjoyable outdoor task, weeding is
necessary. Remember the saying, “one year
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Wednesday, June 3,2009
Mosquito, king of the pests
Mosquito, king of the pests
The other night while dozing I heard the buzzing of a mosquito. After about five
minutes the culprit was glued to a flyswatter. Of all the bothersome insect
pests, however, mosquitoes are
Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Wednesday, May 20,2009
Recycle plastic garden pots
It’s essential for all of us to practive the three R’s of being a good steward of the earth: reduce, reuse and recycle. Last weekend
I walked around my small town on community
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