Composting in Your Country Garden
Composting is a really nice way to use up garden and household waste and enjoy a new level of successful growing in your garden as a result! Plus, you can keep it all under wraps in a corner of your yard in a tidy compost bin.
You can never have too much compost dug into the [...]
Composting Bins: Tips
Did you know that in Canada, since 1995, Composting has been granted an Awareness Week? True. May 4th to 10th, annually.
To learn more about composting visit the related links at right – a few other articles here at GoodByeCityLife.
Here to celebrate Composting Awareness Week is a list of tips for compost newbies…
Top Ten Tips on [...]
Don’t Let Mosquitoes Ruin Your Outdoor Fun!
I understand that bugs are essential to the eco-system, but do we truly need this many? In the country, and of course depending on where you live, bugs that bite and sting both people and farm animals are getting to be a serious problem!
We’ve got West Nile Virus to deal with but even without that [...]
Why Build A Bat House?
My favorite reason for having and building bat houses is for insect control, but there are other reasons for attracting bats onto your property.
First and foremost, bats are nature’s secret weapon to control the insects that are annoying or dangerous to humans. This is especially true of one of their favorite meals – mosquitoes! It [...]
Start Your Annual Flowers Early On for Best Results
Right around February I’ve just about had it with winter. How about you? I yank out the new and old seed catalogs and start clearing a corner to start my annual flowers from seeds under a grow light. Somehow, seeing those tiny sprouts of annual flowers (cosmos and poppies in peat pots and variegated hollyhocks) [...]
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