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10 Jan 2023 3 minute read 11 comments SweptOverNiagara $0.11
We're all feeling the inflation pinch. The cost of food and energy skyrocketed in 2022. In Canada, the price of a liter of gasoline passed $2 for the first time last summer. Just a couple of winters ago, our celery jumped to $10 each when the usual c...
8 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.10
Some of our newer additions to the garden front have taken hold quite nicely! We planted about 15 partly established plants int eh front... a mix of screening plants and nice scented flowering plants. We had the help of my mother-in-law who sugg...
27 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.05
Ah... that weird time between Christmas and New Year... it is sort of like time stands still for us. Very rarely are there concerts, and it is just lots of time to recover from eating and drinking a touch too much and working our way through lef...
20 Dec 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.12
A few weeks back, my wife asked me to come out to listen to this weird sound that she was hearing... I had heard it before, and had always thought that it was an animal or something in the middle of the night. However, with the stronger winds th...
8 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.26
Sometimes, instead of doing the garden work... I will just take the time to wander around the garden... picking up fallen branches and sticks to be later fed into the shredder... looking at various bits to figure out what to tackle next... and w...
29 Nov 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy $0.14
So, this was my first foray into my rogue mulching project... if you remember, my wife had want ed me to turn the heavy clay soil, seed with gypsum and dynamic lifter, cardboard and mulch the top area. Well, I figured that that top area wasn't r...
18 Nov 2022 4 minute read 1 comment bengy $0.23
... and even a few were actually completed! It has been a busy time in the garden over the last couple of weeks. I've found that I've been putting in an hour or two in the morning on most days... and the effort is starting to pay off. Of course,...
5 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.14
The weather in Canberra (well, most of East of Australia) has been a touch wet and stormy in the past couple of weeks. That has made for some disasterous flooding in some areas of New South Wales... but thankfully, most of Canberra has avoided t...
2 Nov 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy $0.25
Nothing is more fun than getting some new gardening toys! Sigh... when did I get so old... I used to relish the days of getting new electronic shinies, now... I'm excited by new hand tools! Well, in this case... it is an electronic garden tool a...
26 Oct 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy $0.31
It has been a crazily wet last week... too much rain, and I'm quite thankful that our stormwater is handling it all properly now. However, there are a couple of low areas around our house that take quite a long time to dry out... and when it is...
