Hens and Chicks in the garden04.20.08

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When we first moved into our house it had a garden, but not a great garden. It had a lot of weedy plants that spread throughout the garden and even into the grass. I can’t remember the name of this simple green leafed plant, but it was everywhere and it’s notoriously invasive.

Other than […]

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Dog fur in the garden to deter pests?04.04.08

Ever since we created our garden six years ago we noticed that we occasionally have nocturnal visitors. These visitors come in the form of very large raccoons and a variety of house or stray cats!

We have a security light at the back porch and it’s regularly triggered at least once each evening and I […]

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Our sunflowers got us in trouble!09.04.07

JoinCan you believe we got a notice today that we’re breaking a city bylaw?

I have to cut down my beautiful sunflowers! We got an official notice stating that the flowers in the boulevard are overgrown and must be cut down to 0.92 meters (3 feet) by September 12th. The notice doesn’t say what […]

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What’s out there?06.28.07

Do you have security lights on your house?
If you do, when they go on do you happen to get up from what you’re doing to go and check what triggered the light?

I do.
I’ve got a security light at the side of the house in the driveway so if anyone or anything enters the driveway at […]

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