Master Gardener program overflowing

CHAMPAIGN – Polishing your green-thumb skills in the dead of winter is so popular that there's a waiting list.

The Master Gardener program offered by the University of Illinois Extension office will begin in January, but already there are more people signed up than there are spaces available.

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