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West Chicago Garden Club
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Cool Stuff
- Tips & Tricks from our Members
- Links to Gardening Related Web Sites
Tips & Tricks from our Members
Organic Gardener's Natural Remedies
| Problem | Remedy |
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| Slugs or earwigs in a garden | Make a "Beer Trap" by placing a small container with beer in it in the bed with the slugs. Dig the container into the ground so that the rim is even with the earth so the slugs can climb in. |
| Weed trees that continue to re-grow | Cut down the tree and paint the stump with bleach. It may be necessary to repeat a couple of times . |
<<Any Ideas?>> |
<<I know there were a lot brought up at one of our meetings, but I didn't take notes!>> |
Links to Gardening Related Web Sites
Garden Club Organizations
National Council of State Garden Clubs
Local Garden Attractions
Garden Shopping on the Web
- Accents for Home & Garden
- An on-line greenhouse in Deleware
- The Backyard Gardener
- From the very novice to the avid expert, we provide down-to-earth clothing for digging in the garden or wearing for leisure.
- Birdhouse Studio
- Build deluxe birdhouses - Imagine your home, office/business or cottage as a Birdhouse. We can replicate any style of architecture into a functional Birdhouse for the home and garden.
- The Bloomin' Flower Card Company
- A small manufacturer of handcrafted, earth friendly greeting card gifts. Plant them - THEY GROW! Hundreds of seeds are embedded in the handmade paper.
- Columbus, Indiana
- This small town in Indiana has "Garden Path" packages to showcase their local gardens.
- Garden's of Chicago's Magnificent Mile
- Chicago's Magnificent Mile invites you to visit our 3rd annual gardening exhibition - the Gardens of Chicago's Magnificent Mile - featuring over 70,000 plants in 37 gardens in a variety of styles. The Magnificent Mile will be blooming all throughout the summer months.
- Garden Solutions
- Features Dutch bulbs and perennials from Breck's, nursery products from Spring Hill, seed mixes from Vermont Wildflower Farm, fruit trees and berries from Stark Brothers and more! Our Exclusive InfoDigger answers 10,000+ gardening questions.
- German Gift shop
- This is the place to buy original German Cuckoo Clocks and Garden Gnomes! Our products are of best German quality! The Garden Gnomes are of the best-known manufacturer in Germany.
- American Greenhouse Kit Company
- Offering the largest selection of greenhouse kits. With 100's of photos, gardening cartoons and jokes along with informative articles and advice.
- English Cottage Gardening - American Style
- An interactive gardening reference manual on CD-ROM (targeted for cold-winter gardeners).
- Master Garden Products
- A company that specializes in wooden products for outdoors and the garden. Uses recycled cedar and lumber from well-managed forests.
- Private Lessons Online
- A on-line class (for a small fee) on plant reproduction.
- spacesavergardening.com
- Raised bed gardening systems
- Sundance Supply
- Build-it-yourself greenhouses and sunrooms.
- Water Worm
- An inexpensive low tech product that effectively waters your house plants when you're away.
- Worm World
- We grow redworms for vermicomposting purposes. Our major product is all organic worm castings. We produce approx. 20 tons per year. We are encouraging organic growers to use worm castings in place of chemical fertilizers.
Gardening Information on the Web
- Etera
- This is the web site that our speaker from Midwest Groundcover so highly recommended. There is tons of gardening information available at this site.
- Better Homes & Gardens Gardening Home Page
- On-line version of the magazine.
- Chicagoland Gardening On-Line
- On-line version of the magazine - Features "Calendar of Events" and "What to do in the garden now". Doesn't have full text from magazine, but does have a table of contents for each issue with descriptions.
- The Gardening Launch Pad
- A gateway site with thousands of gardening links - part of the Garden Webring and Plant Pals Webring.
- GardenWeb
- An Internet garden community - includes a really good garden calendar which can be searched for events all over the country. Also has forums for discussing gardening, tips, travel info for gardeners, and more.
- Home & Garden TV On-Line
- The cable television channel's web site.
- Illinois Cooperative Extension Services - Horticultural Solutions
- Good information in a rather bare-bones format.
- Rochester Gardening
- Information for the Northeastern USA gardener, plus access to plant & garden information worldwide through searchable lists of more than 2,200 categorized web links. Also a special-interest area concerning bulbs.
- Yahoo's Gardening Page
- The Yahoo search engines main gardening page - thousands of links.