Page 4 2024 Spring Home and Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS April 2024 Another Spring is upon us! Welcome to spring! It seems as though it was just a few weeks ago that we made a similar statement at the beginning of spring 2023, but the truth is a year has passed. The winter of 2023-24 was mild and we began feeling the warmth of spring earlier than is typical for central Illinois. Because of this, we’re already biting to get outside, the lawnmowers are already running, and some of us are thinking about green growing things in our yard, and the pleasures and pains that will come with them. The biggest “pain” we may experience this year is insects. While we all know that there are good insects such as pollinators that we want to see in our gardens there are going to be others that don’t make us all that happy. A mild winner will have made for good “over wintering” survival rates for larvae of some of our least favorite insects, so be prepared to take action when needed. In this edition of the Lincoln Daily News Spring Home and Garden magazine you’ll find a few different stories about how to control insects and what to expect that is exceptional this season. The 2024 edition is also going to provide you with information about trendy garden plants, planting natural windbreaks and living privacy fences. Then we take you inside the home for a while. Spring is a great time to think about painting and refinishing projects. Taking on such projects in the early part of the season has benefits such as being able to open windows to allow ventilation from noxious fumes, and less likelihood that your hard work will be marred by flies and other flying insects. Putting this magazine together for LDN readers is a great pleasure for our staff and stringers because we often find that we choose to write articles that interest us or are impacting us personally. We have a wide variety of interests in our group including furniture refinishing, gardening, trees, shrubs and other woody plants, herbs. We also have new parents and parents who are seeing their kids leaving the nest. Those personal experiences are what we share with you in this edition and we hope you will enjoy reading! [Nila Smith]
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