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Article: Thoughts of spring sprout interest in starting plant seeds.(New Homes)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2000
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It's the after-holiday dead of winter. Along with cold and snow, the only interesting things coming into the house these days are seed catalogs.
Now that you've moved into a new house and anticipate having a wonderful garden, you throw peat moss to the wind and decide to grow some plants from seed.
Here's a quick guide to get started on making your garden a place of beauty as well as pride.
Why bother? "People start seeds to control what plants they grow," says Jan Little, manager of horticultural education at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle. "Some may have saved seeds from the previous year's plants, other want to plant heirloom varieties or ...