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 Winter 2022-23
- Flowers are a forgotten love language
- Tree bark adds visual bite to winter landscapes
- Sow seeds of change, learn how to save garden seeds
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Gardeners Corner Fall 2022
- Grassy weeds becoming more common in lawns
- Keep garden, plants hydrated going into fall
- Extend the season with fall flowers for your beds, borders, and containers
- Stretch out the growing season with fall planted salad greens
- Prepare your trees for severe weather
- Give summer-blooming bulbs a second chance, store them overwinter
- Find gourds absorbing? Try growing a loofah sponge
- To get in touch with nature, create a sensory garden
Gardeners Corner Summer 2022
- Microclovers making a comeback as lawns grow in biodiversity
- To outsmart weeds in the garden, take multiple approaches
- Support pollinators with cheerful viola flowers
- Feed your community by safely donating homegrown fruits, vegetables
- Tips for harvesting garden vegetables
- Create backyard paradise with tropical plant garden
- Overwhelmed by garden produce? Pickle it!
- Leaves of three? Keep poison ivy out of the home landscape
- Taking time to select plants for difficult growing conditions helps long-term success
- Native prairie grasses create distinct, breezy aesthetic in home landscape
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Gardeners Corner Spring 2022
- Plant new fruit, vegetable, and flower varieties with confidence with 2022 All-America Selection Winners
- Pelleted seed gives gardeners a sown in advantage
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