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Busy Bees

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This weeks theme is I Spy

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I spy with my camera eye at least two busy bees collecting pollen from the New York Asters. Heck, there might even be a third one in the last full flower in the right hand corner. There’s a blur there that certainly looks like a happy bumble bee. You can click on the photo to see a larger image on my Flickr page.

I won’t be seeing my lovely New York Aster blooms again until autumn, but I sure hope that I’ll start to see some spring flowers soon. It’s finally warming up a bit here and the snows beginning to melt. The temperatures have been above freezing for the last two days and are expected to be above freezing (sometimes with rain) over the next four or so days, so with luck there’s a good chance that much of the snow that ruined my back last weekend will soon disappear.

Wish us snow bound northerners luck?

Want to grow luscious delicious vegetables and beautiful flowers this year? Start composting and use the compost you create on your garden!






If you need a dehumidifier check the product ratings at Wize

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Our summers here in Toronto are so hot and humid that I’ve seriously considered getting a dehumidifier. Obviously now that the weather is cooling I don’t need one now, but come spring I think I’ll be looking for a small one to put in our basement and perhaps one to put on our main floor. If we can get the humidity out of the air perhaps we won’t use the air conditioning as much or we can raise the temp on the air conditioner and save some energy.

If you live in an area that gets humid you might also be thinking of buying a dehumidifier. If you are you should check out the listings for dehumidifiers at Wize.com. They have quite a list of brands to choose from and you can read reviews on the various types of dehumidifiers in order to pick the one that suits your needs best or choose one that has a high Wize rating.

Wize ratings are basically consumer satisfaction ratings so a product on Wize with a high Wize rating is one that most people are happy with using.

You can search for dehumidifiers on Wize by price, brand, the amount of square footage that the dehumidifier covers, pints per day and by humidity control. With so many ways to search for the perfect dehumidifier your bound to find the right one for your needs quickly.

It’s really cooling off at night!

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Is it getting cooler in your area? It’s getting cooler here and the temperatures seem to be dropping lower than they should at night for this time of year.

On Sunday I happened to look at my weather widget on my computer and I saw that it was supposed to go down to 0 Celsius overnight. Yikes! Zero at this time of year? I’ve still got tomatoes, Cannas, Passion flower vines and other tropicals outdoors!

My husband and I talked about how low the temperatures were going to go and I thought about just covering the plants with a sheet of burlap. We have plenty of that for winterizing so it’s handy! Instead we decided to bring some of the more delicate plants – passion flower, jasmine, ornamental pepper and two potted tomato plants into the back porch. Yes it still gets cool in that room but it’s enclosed and it always seem to stay a few degree’s warmer than whatever it is outdoors.

The enclosed back porch faces south and it’s been an ideal room to use when I’ve got my act together and have started seedlings in the late winter or early spring. Some winter days with the sun shinning fully into the room it can get up to between 70 and 80 F in there even when it’s close to zero outside! Of course at night without the sun it cools substantially.

Anyway, I think I might leave the potted tomatoes in the room for as long as I can. Perhaps I’ll be eating fresh tomatoes long after you’ve pulled yours out of the ground?

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