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BigBox Botanical Garden Collage
For all you Mac users: behold my success at fooling iPhoto into creating a photo collage, something it doesn’t profess to do. There are a number of third-party software choices available to let you do this… but I found a quick, easy and no-cost solution. Just pour your photos into a page template for a […]
Keeping deer out of the garden
On a visit this summer to Earth Bound Gardens in the Bruce Peninsula I discovered their very effective way of keeping deer out of the garden, particularly their hosta and lily glade. These were being regularly eaten down to nubs until they used this simple trick. Their hosta bed is in a clearing, surrounded on […]
Mulching leaves: Mowers, not just for lawns
This is one reason why I wish I had an electric lawn mower: to chop autumn leaves into bite-sized, easily composted pieces. This is a trick you can use now. My rickety, ancient push mower (all I can justify for my narrow strip buy cialis super force online dschnur.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/cialis-super-force.html no prescription pharmacy of grass, which […]
Give your rose arbour the bends
This summer online pharmacy buy zepbound with best prices today in the USA of 2009, my Rosa ‘New Dawn’ has put out a bumper crop of new shoots. Typically, in August, this climbing rose has three or four long stems of new growth. This year, at least a dozen have shot their wands to the […]
Mulch ado about weeding
What’s black and white and mulch all over? Yes, newspapers. With a family addition nearly due to distract them, our neighbours G. and W. are cleverly smothering a former weed patch in their garden with newspapers, topped buy wegovy online healthempire.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/wegovy.html no prescription pharmacy with a few inches of woodchips. That should keep weeds down […]
Recipe to Keep Your Cut Flowers Fresh Longer
I’ve always been frustrated with the little teeny packets of flower preserver that you get when you buy cut flowers. Seems you can never buy this mysterious stuff in bulk for use in home-grown bouquets. No idea what it even contains. So I’ve always wanted to find a home recipe for flower bouquet longevity. I’ve […]
Don’t touch the hosta, dahling!
Like this Hosta ‘Halcyon’, many of the prettiest hostas have what’s called a glaucous leaf – with a waxy coating that gives it a whitish frosting or bloom. The online pharmacy buy soft cialis with best prices today in the USA glaucous texture intensifies the blue of blue-leaf hostas and gives yellow or white markings […]
Why gardeners say: Off with their heads!
Make like a squirrel now and lop off your tulip heads – or deadhead them – after they finish blooming and before they put their energy into seed-making. Instead, we want the tulip to fatten the bulb for next year. For tulips, daffs and other spring bulbs, pinch off the seed pod, but leave as […]
Quick tip: Roses love bananas… or do they?
Here’s what I was going to write: Don’t online pharmacy buy augmentin with best prices today in the USA toss your banana peels into the Green Bin (or even the compost pile). Instead, chop them up and sprinkle them around your roses, to give the roses a good, organic snack of potassium. I cut mine […]
Yikes: Boxwood psyllids and the new pesticides ban
As it’s growing in challenging conditions, the round boxwood (Buxus) planted by my front door has always been plagued by boxwood psyllids (Psylla buxi). They’re the tiny sucking insects that cause the tips of boxwood leaves to deform into cups. Unless you looked closely at your box foliage, you might not even realize that this […]
The return of the Compost Queen
My name is Helen, and I am a composter. In fact, I was once the Compost Queen, the kind of girl who stole grass clippings — that had been bagged and left on curbs for the garbage truck. Few things heat buy kamagra polo online bristolrehabclinic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jpg/kamagra-polo.html no prescription pharmacy up and speed up a compost […]