Continued from Part 1 After a great deal of panic and hand-wringing, we contacted a company called Pipe Vision who came over and ran cameras through the weepers to see what was going on. Sure enough, the weepers were so plugged with silt in several areas that the camera could not even penetrate. While this [...]
I suspect many people worry that one day they’ll have a wet basement. Recently, that particular fear of my own came true when we discovered wetness in the basement of our 25 year old home. Perhaps sharing our story might help others struggling with a similar issue and believe me, there are many of you [...]
Time for another update on our chemical free-lawn progress. If you recall, I first wrote about this in May of last year. Our lawn had already been free of chemicals for almost two years but the poor thing was suffering. Then, about 15 months ago, we hired Garden [...]
Back about two months ago, I wrote about the fact that we’d hired Garden Holistics to tackle our lawn of weeds without the use of chemicals. At the time, Jerome said it would take about two years to recover. Could he have meant two months? Since that first post, the lawn has been aerated, top dressed, [...]
Like most homeowners in our neighbourhood, John and I take pride in our landscaping. When we purchased our home 4 years ago, there was nothing but a gravel circular driveway right across the front yard. The grass was green but chemically dependant. We replaced the driveway with one made of stamped concrete and we lined [...]
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