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• Crop, Stock and Ledger
  Crop, Stock and Ledger covers a variety of agricultural and natural resources issues.
• Extension Connection
  Weekly features from the Extension Staff in Champaign County.
• The Homeowners Column
  Sandy Mason's Homeowners Column discusses hot topics in the home landscape each week.
• The Homeowner's Column
  Sandy Mason's Homeowners Column discusses hot topics in the home landscape each week.
• Field Notes
  Field Notes is the newsletter for East Central Illinois Master Naturalists.
• The Cultivator
  Newsletter for Champaign County Master Gardeners.

Photo Galleries

• Champaign County Nursing Home
• Champaign County Juvenile Detention Center Garden
• National Public Lands Day 2011
• Grand Prairie Friends Plant Sale
• Hunting for Mussels
• 2011 Garden Walk
• I-72 Prairie in Bloom

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Contact Us

Sandra Mason
Extension Educator, Horticulture
University of Illinois Extension
801 North Country Fair Drive
Suite D
Champaign, IL 61821
Phone: 217-333-7672
FAX: 217-333-7683
slmason@illinois.edu

Featured Websites

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• Herb Gardening
  Guide to growing and using common herbs.
• Focus on Plant Problems
  Is disease affecting your plants and trees? Learn more at this website.
• Lawn Talk
  Learn what grass varieties are best for your lawn, how to deal with shady areas, when to fertilize your lawn & more!
• University of Illinois Plant Clinic
  Let us help with your plant problems. We do plant and insect identification, diagnosis of disease, insect, weed and chemical injury (chemical injury on field crops only), nematode assays, and help with nutrient related problems, as well as recommendations involving these diagnoses.
• Watch Your Garden Grow
  Your guide to choosing, growing, preparing and storing common vegetables.
• Illinois Vegetable Garden Guide
  A guide for growing, harvesting, and exhibiting vegetables.
• Successful Container Gardens
  A guide for choosing a container, selecting soil mixes, choosing and combining plants, fertilizing, watering and grooming basics.
• Wildflowers
  A directory of more than 140 different Illinois wildflowers
• Gardening with Perennials
  Gardening with Perennials will tell you how to plant and care for a garden that will bloom year after year.

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