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Many bedding plants have not been outside before you purchased. Before planting, place new plants outside each day to harden or 'toughen up' before planting.

It’s that time of year. Spring cleaning both inside and out. Using a landscape maintenance company offers a viable option to maintaining your landscape on your own. Care should be taken to ensure a reputable company is selected. If you’re a property or homeowner looking for help when caring for the lawn and landscape, you have the option to hire a professional to do the work for you. Consider the following. What are the benefits of hiring a professional company? What is a reasonable price to pay for lawn care? What do service packages offer? What’s required of you? When selecting a reputable company consider schedule flexibility, communication strategies, response times, expertise, comprehensive maintenance plans, and environmental stewardship. If your choice meets all the above, you’re well on your way to a greatlooking place.

Congratulations to Mikah VanderWey, who will graduate from Cody-Kilgore High School on Saturday! Janet Cady traveled to North Platte on Tuesday to see her mom, Darlene, and sister Deb. On Friday, Duane and Janet drove to Atkinson to visit Carol Cady at Good Samaritan Center.

LINCOLN, Neb. (May 2, 2024) – When state's high school boys baseball players take the field at Werner Park in Omaha to compete for championships, Nebraska Public Media will produce live television coverage of all the action.

Chadron-On August 9, Smokey Bear will turn 80 years old. There will be opportunities to see Smokey at Forest, Grassland and community events all over the footprint of Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands (NNFG).

Ever wondered how far back greenhouses date? All the way back to 30 A.D. in Rome during the reign of Emperor Tiberius Julius Ceasar Augustus. Just what drove him to have greenhouses built? As the story goes, the ailing Emperor was instructed to eat cucumbers by royal physicians. And so, the first greenhouse was built with stone walls for insulation and a glass ceiling to let the light in.

Equipment and newly advertised techniques are available to vacuum-seal jars to preserve foods. As a consumer you should evaluate your source of information always. Vacuum-sealing products can be misleading with their descriptions and images used to advertise these tools. Mason jar vacuum sealers cannot be used to preserve foods that would otherwise be canned and processed using a heat treatment (e.g., boiling water bath, atmospheric steam canning, or pressure canning).

Five generations of the Schmit family gather recently, from left to right is: Priscilla Wobig, Barbara Schmit, Ashley Walsh holding Briar Walsh, and Erin Hill. .

As we approach the end of our 22nd season, I would like to thank our audience for trusting us to bring them health information that is current and accurate. There are many doctors out there who cannot make the same claims as the Prairie Doc’s and I would like to take this opportunity to help sort out those charlatans and quacks from trusted sources of health information.

It’s human nature to tell stories about the past, and doctors aren’t immune to that impulse. The second year medical students rotating through my clinic have me reflecting on my own years as a fledgling physician, and the changes I’ve seen in my decades of practice.