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 2021
- Don't rake fall leaves, recycle them
Gardeners Corner Summer 2021
- School gardens offer numerous benefits beyond beautification
- To water or not to water? Classic debate over summer lawn care begins
- Love fresh salsa? Plant a salsa garden
- Large yard not required to support pollinators
- Tomato gardeners beware, blossom end rot can be prevented
- Get to know the incredible Illinois milkweed
- Irrigate gardens to beat summer heat
- From wish to weed: our love-hate relationship with dandelions
- Hire tree care professional with confidence
- Create a bird-friendly yard
Gardeners Corner Spring 2021
- Make way for 2021 award-winning All-America Selections plants
- Gardening benefits body, mind, wallet
- Tips for starting your spring garden off strong
- The time is right to plant cool season vegetables
- Spruce, Callery pear have no home in Illinois landscape designs
- Refresh your raised bed soil
- Heirloom flowers provide fragrance, beauty, pollinator support
- Small-space containers big with new gardeners
- Small-batch culinary herbs add flavor to the gardening menu
- Planning and designing a native garden
- Create a moonlight garden
Gardeners Corner Winter 2020
- How to care for a living Christmas tree
- Grow a living Christmas tree with Norfolk Island Pine
- Picking the perfect Christmas tree starts at home
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