Storm Watch!06.08.07

It’s hot here today! 31 Celsius (87.8 F) with a humidity factor bringing the temperature up to 40 Celsius (104 F). See I told you it gets hot and humid here in Toronto.
It’s been dark and kind of overcast for the last couple of hours, but just a few minutes ago it got almost [...]



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Rainy day05.27.07

We’re getting some much needed rain here today. It’s not too cool either. In fact, it’s 6:30 pm and I do believe it’s begun to warm up. Perhaps we’re heading into another warm spell.

We still haven’t managed to put our air-conditioners in our windows and Chris has to work tomorrow. I just [...]



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Growing house plants from seed?12.09.06

As you’ve probably gathered from my last two seed related posts, you don’t need a greenhouse and misting system to successfully propagate house plants from seed. It is really fairly simple and inexpensive.

A number of popular foliage and flowering house plants are commonly propagated from seed, including the umbrella tree Brassaia, False aralia Dizygotheca, tree [...]



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Controlling house plant pests11.24.06

In many parts of North America and other areas of the world gardeners have traded their backyard gardening for indoor houseplant gardening. Bringing some plants in from outdoors, and tending to others that are indoors all year round.

Every home owner who keeps houseplants will encounter, at one time or another the dreaded house plant [...]



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