Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category

Bird Feeders

Posted by Trendy Chick on April 6th, 2010

For many, the visit of birdies in your garden is one of the reasons why we pretty up the garden.  It’s is that time of the year to bring out the bird feeder and welcome those birds into your garden.  Some people said that listening to the birds chirp is the best cures for hemorrhoids [...]

Bonzai Madness For Spring

Posted by Trendy Chick on March 15th, 2010

I never had green thumbs and even when i needed to re pot the plants at the store – i asked the in-laws to help.  I grew up watching my grandfather trimmed bonzai and know how expensive they are and we never touched them when we were kids.  But you see this spring the spouse [...]

Have Your Lemon In The Winter

Posted by Trendy Chick on February 15th, 2010

Who doesn’t love their lemon right? even in the winter, we need our ice lemon tea and what better way to have your own lemon from your own home. Wait a minute – I hear you saying – yes, we do have long winters here and winter is terribly wicked.  But I need my lemon [...]

Fencing The Garden

Posted by Trendy Chick on February 11th, 2010

I have a very weird neighbor who in my opinion needs the  best acne face wash , when we first moved into our new home.  But these days, the weird neighbor has actually turned into a kinda nuisance because his dog had been pooping on our lawn.  Had the dog been a friendly one, we [...]

Re-potting Plants

Posted by Trendy Chick on February 3rd, 2010

Did I tell you that I’m a scaredy cat and am worried that I might kill my house plants – ask me anything about wholesale term life insurance and i can churn out a dozen of listing to show you what i can find – but when it comes to re-potting my – i leave [...]

Mini Gardening

Posted by Trendy Chick on August 6th, 2009

When one lives in Canada, it’s easy to get tv stand or electronics but to have your own lil’ garden for your herbs, well, lets just say the weather is wicked.  So we have an indoor mini garden for our own herbs for cooking.  Great as gift and for  anyone who wants to know which [...]

Inspiring Outdoors

Posted by Trendy Chick on June 4th, 2009

Summer is really round the corner and if your back yard or deck isn’t fixed yet, get inspired by Ikea’s outdoor.  You can pick a tip or two from them like i did.  My neighbours are putting up some outdoors  satellite radios because they are also planning to spend more time with family and friends [...]

More lawn Tips

Posted by Trendy Chick on May 23rd, 2009

Doesn’t work the first tip ?  now worries, try my 2nd tip.  More to come later.

Use lime to raise the pH balance of the soil. Winter rains wash away nutrients and make soil more acidic. A soil’s pH is the measure of its acidity and alkalinity. Grass likes a sweeter, more alkaline soil. The [...]

Green Fingers Season

Posted by Trendy Chick on May 18th, 2009

It’s that time of the year again, mowing time is here but we also have to plant the seeds for the tulips if we want to see some next spring.  Having said that, our lawn needs work too.  Our lawn looks the most horrid in the neighbourhood, I often wonder if it is because we [...]

Garden Bench

Posted by Trendy Chick on May 11th, 2009

This unique garden bench looks like it is made of sticks from the tree but truth be told, they are actuallymade of rust free cast aluminium frame .. and the tree branch design is actually faux wood.  Interesting and unique right..??  comes with one accent throw pillow and at $277 .. the throw pillow is  [...]