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su weekender saturday mavt71997 p 17 weeds will lose this years war spring is here and with the first long weekend i can no longer ignore the yard work that stares me in the face every time i leave the house i cringe when i look at the brown patches the healthy young weeds just soaking up the rain and sunrays weeds rule the world you know you spray them you pull them and finally you curse them but you cant beat them the big guy and i left a postage stamp size lot in the city to come up to our half acre of dandelions goldenrod and thistles rural router gardeners like myself sometimes fight a losing battle in con quering weeds and maintaining that martha stewartlike landscape once i watched martha demonstrate how to design and cultivate a herb garden that looked simple enough to reproduce funny how a 30minute show can make any project seem easy for even the amateur to achieve i have long since woken up and smelled the roses so to speak going to a local nursery i purchased thyme parsley and lots of other inter esting specimens the small plot was weeded prepared and the little plants placed strategically by fall my little herb garden became the martha stewart garden from hell bugs and slugs ugh were every where and the natural solutions to kill them seemed to please them instead i placed beer in containers and hoped like all the gardening magazines said that they would get intoxicated fall in and go to alcoholic heaven not my housing units up by 21 8 last year a total of 218 housing units were built in whitchurch-stouf- fville last year the town reports the towns building department also reported that permits were issued for one industrial unit 16 commercial units and 27 swim ming pools whitchurchstouffville earned a total of 356702 in revenue for building permits doggone delicious introducing the lot burger only one of its kind in town deli specials homemade soup brotisserie chicken homeburgers coppins corner j restaurant now open sundays 8 am 2 pm brock rd durham 21 6493455 rural route ruth ruth leblanc slugs i ended up with fat and happy slugs that drank then ate my herbs in a drunken binge returning in the dark of the night to my garden pub this year the gloves are off i am determined to have a lush green lawn with flowers loaded with buds and blooms like many rural gardeners we have to contend with the weed seeds that come flying in our yards landing everywhere creating gardening havoc a prime example of this was my flower bed last summer the big guy spent hours digging a huge plot that we sprinkled with wildflower seeds every day or so i would venture out to see how much bigger they had grown with great pride i showed off my hardy plants to anyone who came to the house for a visit august passed and no flowers appeared on the threeandfourfoot high beauties fall came and surprise surprise the carefully tended and fer tilized flowers were actually thistles disgraced and humiliated i decided next year this year i would rule the yard not the weeds this long weekend i am taking my romantic anniversary present a fertilizer spreader and i am treating the lawn next i am going to follow angelo pignatellos advice on gardening for we rural routers being a comedian at heart angelo from tree valley garden centre said to make sure to plant green side up i think that is the only thing that i have done right if last summer you had stunted growth or yellow leaves with small or minimal blooms angelo says test your soil and correct the problem last summer i invented my own gar dening tip i would remove the delicate little plants and dip them in transplant solution it made sense that this would give them a kick start and boy would my flowers bloom wrong again i burned the roots and killed about three flats of plants have a great long weekend and may all weeds go to the great compost pile in the sky ow open rv i i oqpooqoqooooqoocm premium leaf house cigar lounge located in unionville over 50 brands of cigars from cuba dominican republic 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