Preventing Weeds in Concrete Driveway Expansion Joints
The answer suggests using a weed preventer like Preen or better filling joints with driveway joint and crack filler. The filler is applied like caulk and remains flexible to accommodate expansion and contraction. If gaps are wide a backer rod may be needed as a foam filler.
What Goes With What Dishes and Dining Areas
Interior designer Lauren Smith offers a practical guide for decorating challenged readers. The book helps identify general style, select dining room elements, estimate costs, set priorities, and plan improvements. It covers furniture periods, shopping tips, and ideas for dressing a dinner table.
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Lauren Smith
Smith
Capital Books
Granite resurfacing makes over counters in days
Home Trends reports a new resurfacing method using 95 percent ground granite mixed with polymer resin to form worth slim slabs installed over existing counters for a real granite look. The material is heat and stain resistant requires no sealing and carries a 10 year warranty.
Book reveals secrets to tough clean jobs
Reader's Digest edition "2,001 Amazing Cleaning Secrets" by Jeff Bredenberg offers expert advice and shortcuts for cleaning a wide range of items. It presents a weekly system, tool and product recommendations, an A Z encyclopedia, checklists, and a "Cleaning Crises" emergency section.
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Reader’s Digest
Jeff Bredenberg
Gazette Wire Services
Colorful fall plants take center stage in gardens
Chicago area gardener Kim Rocchi notes fall color can come from fall blooming perennials and shrubs. She highlights monkshood, goldenrod varieties, and anemone selections, with advice on watering and soil to establish root systems before frost.
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Beth Botts
Chicago Tribune
Jeannie Rocchi
Aurora
Ill
Douglas Green
Contemporary Books
Chicago Botanic Garden
Glencoe
North America
University of Illinois Extension Service
Rocchi
Honorine Jobert