Home and Garden
-
How to care for houseplants during a heat wave
Jun 25, 2024 11:15 pm - Houseplants, like their garden-planted siblings, can suffer in excessive heat, whether from the outside temperature or the air conditioner.
-
5 easy ways to get a more organized kitchen
-
Home and garden calendar, June 30-July 6Jun 25, 2024 10:44 pm - Pollinator parties, garden club meetings, art markets and more.
-
Remember the glass blocks of ’80s bathrooms? They’re back.
-
Poison ivy easy to miss while weedingJun 24, 2024 10:46 pm - Knowing how to recognize, and handle, poison ivy is important, especially when it’s time to weed the garden.
-
The 17-year cicadas will die out soon. Here’s what to do after they’re gone
Jun 19, 2024 5:47 pm - Soon, the Chicago area will stop buzzing with the noise heard only every 17 years. So what do you do with dead cicadas and exoskeletons?
-
How should association handle money owed to former owners?Jun 18, 2024 9:46 pm - An association has a long list of small credits to former owners on the books. How can they clear their books of these credits?
-
Home and garden calendar, June 23-29Jun 18, 2024 7:15 pm - Garden walks and boutiques, seed swaps, classes and more.
-
Clematis, other climbing vines need regular trainingJun 18, 2024 5:46 pm - Keep your climbing vines trained; go ahead and keep planting this month; and mow those fast-growing weeds among your native plants.
-
Woman missed out on cicadas 17 years ago, so she brought 6,000 of them to her yardJun 18, 2024 7:02 pm - Bettina Sailer has gone to areas where cicadas were plentiful and brought them back to her North Aurora home. She now has more than 6,000 of the insects in her yard.