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The last time I wrote a blog, I posted funny, unusual or interesting pictures I find while perusing the intarweb. I was hesitant, at first, to include this habit here. However, I read an article about blogging that basically said for you be yourself while writing. As much as this blog is to be about gardening and landscaping my plot of land in the world, all work and no play make for a dull blogger.

With that in mind, I present to you the first in what will be a looooong series of pictures I come across.

Someone, somewhere thinks this is nirvana.

After mulling over various books and websites, I made the plunge and started ordering seeds. My first lot is vegetables mostly, with a few flowers thrown in for good measure. The order was $50, making it the first significant purchase that directly makes the garden grow.

My PlanGarden is coming along nicely. I have made some final decisions as to colors and locations of various elements. There are still a few things to be finalized, but that’ll have to wait until I research my berry plants a bit more and make the final order for them.
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Our 6-month old puppy was a tiny bit bored and decided to have a go at some newly purchased yarn. His creativity was superb, managing to stretch the yarn from the basket in the living room, around the coffee table, down the hall and up the stairs. Next time things become unusually quiet, I think I’ll go have a peek at the puppy to see what’s going on.

This past weekend we received about 3″ of snow. Not much really. Now combine that with rain from last night’s thunderstorm, (yeah…I said thunderstorm…in February, in Southern Ontario ) poorly sloped backyard, frozen ground and warm temperatures and you get water in the basement. The scariest part is that the water was actually coming in at the top of the concrete basement wall. The massive puddle in my back yard covered my brick patio and pooled against the exterior wall and then proceeded to come into the house.
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For those out the re who are like me, you have to plan everything to the last detail before undertaking a project, no matter what the size. While searching for a decent software package for landscape design, I happened across a nifty website that uses a nifty flash applet to enable designing a garden in your browser. The website is called PlanGarden.com and my drawing can be seen here.
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Here’s a short and sweet recipe to help with pest control for garden and house plants, as borrowed from TipNut. You can use this as a preventative spray as well as a bug and pest killer.
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A good companion plant for carrots, grapes, roses and tomatoes, Chives will deter Japanese beetles and aphids.

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