DEAR HELOISE: I’m loving all the ideas that you are receiving about flowers and funerals. I just wanted to give you another idea: A dear friend of my mother’s sent a planter of bulbs for my mother’s funeral this past February. The flowers were beautiful and bright at that time of year, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Why aren’t meningococcal vaccines recommended for people over the age of 23? Are they assuming (wrongly) that most people have already received them or that most won’t (again, probably wrongly) be exposed? When I worked in the emergency room long ago before there was a ...

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This past fall, my husband and I traveled to Iceland and throughout Scandinavia. And as I do on all our trips, I kept my eyes open for local plantings in containers and gardens. In doing so, I was not too surprised to discover that plantings in other countries can be very different from what ...

I almost feel guilty writing about this because it is so simple that anyone can do it. So, what exactly is “it”? It is winter sowing. This is the process of planting seeds in containers and leaving them outside during the winter months, so they are ready to grow in your garden when spring ...

Here are upcoming gardening events through the Ohio State University Extension Office. For more information and a complete list, contact: • OSU Mahoning County Extension Office, 490 S. Broad St., Canfield. 330-533-5538. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. • ...