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Garden catalog season gives gardeners a chance to explore, shop for next year’s seeds
January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently and en masse. “It used to be you would get either a vegetable catalog or a fruit catalog or flower catalog,” says Richard Hentschel, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. “Many catalogs now contain something for everyone, including the garden gadget addicts.” It used to be that Swiss chard was green, but now it is also available in shades of pink, orange, yellow, gold, white and purple. Illinois gardeners should…
Garden catalog season gives gardeners a chance to explore, shop for next year’s seeds
January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently and en masse. “It used to be you would get either a vegetable catalog or a fruit catalog or flower catalog,” says Richard Hentschel, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. “Many catalogs now contain something for everyone, including the garden gadget addicts.” It used to be that Swiss chard was green, but now it is also available in shades of pink, orange, yellow, gold, white and purple. Illinois gardeners should…
this year’s trendy gadget, or a modern day game changer?
It’s impossible to count how many home appliances introduced over the past century have boasted their potential to “completely revolutionize the way you cook.” More often than not, they wind up being little more than a nifty trend that’s forgotten after just a few uses. Something simply looks cool, but isn’t all that practical. Just take a gander through the latest SkyMall catalog the next time you’re on a plane. I’m sure we’ve all fallen victim to the “I’ve just gotta have this” syndrome when we see a slick advertisement telling us how much a new slicer or juicer will…
10 Forgotten Gadgets Of The 1980s That Kids Won’t Recognize Today
The 80s created some of the most iconic brands of all time. Movies from this era are still seeing new installments, like the predators series. Video games hit the mainstream around this time as well. Nintendo, for example, has created miniature versions of their iconic consoles from the era to the modern day. There are tons of other iconic 80s gadgets that haven’t been revived in the modern day. Not every gadget can be the Sony Walkman, and some technological master crafts were cool at the time and might have even persisted but were completely overshadowed in the end. SCREENRANT…