Gardeners Corner
Gardeners Corner is a quarterly newsletter from the Illinois Extension team of horticulture experts. Each issue highlights seasonal recommendations that will make your houseplants, landscape, or garden shine in any season.
Gardeners Corner Fall 2023
In this issue
- Butterflies can eat to live, live to eat in a balanced garden
- Ideas for youth to explore and connect with nature
- Reap the benefits of intergenerational gardening
- Build drought-tolerant gardens this fall for next summer’s blooms
- Tips for extending the garden’s growing season
- Consider pollinators during fall garden cleanup
- Keep growing with herbs indoors this fall, winter
- Don’t dump Halloween pumpkins, donate or compost them
Gardeners Corner Summer 2023
- Go green with eco-friendly lawn care
- Reduce storm damage by looking for tree defects before bad weather strikes
- Care for perennial gardens with 3 proven pruning methods
- Elevate your expectations with raised bed gardening
- Want more from your garden? Plant a fall crop of cucumbers
- How to grow tropical ginger for at home spice
- Make flowers and memories last forever with drying for design
- Build privacy with plants for secret gardens
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Gardeners Corner Spring 2023
- Grow the best new flower and vegetable varieties with 2023 All-America Selection Winners
- Make the most of mulch by choosing from living, synthetic, inorganic, or organic
- Grow confidence when choosing seed packets for your garden
- Sustainable community gardens benefit local growers, ecosystems, and communities
- Plant trees for every season
- Plant top annuals of 2023 to create craveable container gardens
- Bugged by houseplant pests? Give carnivorous plants a try
- What’s in a name? The roots of fruit and vegetable names are long and intertwined
- Identify, avoid, and manage troublesome wild parsnip
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Gardeners Corner Winter 2022-23
- Protect trees from winter’s wrath with a few preventive steps
- Indoor gardening can brighten winter doldrums
- Burning local firewood this winter can save forests
- Give someone a green holiday season with the gift of plants
- Planning a new perennial garden? Plant for the whole garden ecosystem
- Fruit trees need an annual trim to bear best fruit