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LifestreamIt’s time to close the book on the gardening season. Overall I’m sort of pleased with my accomplishments. And as customary, I did pick up a few bits and bobs at 70% off. Got to love these seasonal sales. I mean, a couple of years ago I picked up a big bamboo plant for practically [...]
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So I’ve been looking for a reasonably well-kept snow blower for some time now. Availability has been the main issue, but of course at the end of the day, the price tag decides what is worth getting. In the end I settled for a vintage Gilson model number 55112. This classic model was most likely [...]
In order to level out part of the garden somewhat and make the patio more versatile I decided to add a wooden section on one side to replace a sloped patch of grass. The groundwork is really the worst part of these projects imo. Just peeling off the grass and disposing of it elsewhere can [...]
With winter on the way I have finally started scoping for a snow blower. The last two winters have been terrible around here and there is no reason to believe the coming winter will be any different. The weather has historically been cyclical with a couple of bad winters in a row. On the other [...]
Earliest crop ever. Or at least in a very long time. And had June not been so cold and rainy the season would have started two weeks earlier still for sure. Overall I am very pleased with my new raised strawberry patch. Weeds have been largely non-existent, and it all looks very neat and professional. [...]
Rails and curtains installed on the glass patio. I think this turned out to be a reasonably nice and cost-effective solution. More in the Garden 2011 gallery.
It would seem I finally have a viable population of Burgundy snails (Helix pomatia) in the garden. They seem to thrive on the compost and I plan on doing everything I can to convince them to stay. In my book, these critters are a must-have for any serious gardener. They are decorative, amusing and quite [...]
Fence project is coming along nicely. More in the fence gallery. Everything went better than expected even though nothing was really straightforward. And the walls turned out to be remarkably crooked. The real problems started on the far end of the driveway where one of the retaining walls had twisted and moved several centimetres. Had [...]
We’ve had substantial patches of strawberries for a number of years now. Substantial in terms of being a city garden. But strawberries can be a real grower’s hell. Sure, they grow easy enough and propagate quickly, but they also require a lot of weeding and watering if they are to produce any real quantities. Birds [...]
The elusive raspberry thief is at it again. I was bribing him (her?) with almonds for a week but he seems to be back on the raspberry diet again. Edit: I took some new photos in less gloomy weather. Still through a window but at shutter speeds of 1/250 (f7.1) to 1/160 (f8) which is [...]
