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Condo Smarts: Strata has a duty to give notice for access

Condo Smarts: Strata has a duty to give notice for access

Check your strata bylaws for clear information
Helen Chesnut: Giant caterpillars gobble up garden greens

Helen Chesnut: Giant caterpillars gobble up garden greens

Dear Helen: Our vegetable garden is fully fenced to keep out rabbits and deer. I聽returned last month from a long weekend away to find my large purple sprouting broccoli plants with their tops off. Below, the leaves were stripped to skeletons.
Helen Chesnut: Green sanctuaries

Helen Chesnut: Green sanctuaries

Who among us is entirely free? Many are the constraints that bind our lives to one degree or another. Limitations come in numerous forms. They can be physical, financial, familial and work-related.
Reena Nerbas: Bitter remedy

Reena Nerbas: Bitter remedy

Dear Reena: As gardening season arrives, I am thinking about planting cucumbers. The problem is that garden cucumbers always taste bitter.
House Beautiful: Home designed for family living

House Beautiful: Home designed for family living

A love of decorating and knowledge of the building business are clearly visible in this home, where a husband and wife collaborated to create a handsome farmhouse on four rural hectares in Central Saanich.
Condo Smarts: When is a strata meeting officially finished?

Condo Smarts: When is a strata meeting officially finished?

Dear Tony: Our strata had the AGM in February. At that time we did not pass a budget because the owners were arguing about whether the budget could be amended or not.
Reena Nerbas: Use place mats, coasters on glass

Reena Nerbas: Use place mats, coasters on glass

Dear Reena: I was brave and ordered a glass kitchen table. It will be delivered soon. I am now having second thoughts.
House Beautiful: Surrounded by woods and water

House Beautiful: Surrounded by woods and water

With waterfront vistas all the way from Mount Baker and Darcy Island to 10-Mile Point and Mount Douglas, this home offers extraordinary panoramas.
Helen Chesnut: Tom Thumb, Little Gem ideal for small gardens

Helen Chesnut: Tom Thumb, Little Gem ideal for small gardens

On Friday, March 13 this year, despite the inauspicious date, I made the daring decision to delay no longer and proceed in full-spring-ahead garden mode.
Condo Smarts: Fee facts and fictions

Condo Smarts: Fee facts and fictions

Dear Tony: Our strata has been struggling with the issue of determining how high our strata fees should be.