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What you need to know about ice melters

How Ice Melters Work When ice melter granules contact ice or snow, they begin to form a brine solution. This brine is central to the melting...

How to get rid of Ice Melter residue on your flooring

While ice melter residues are common on sidewalks and parking lots, tracking of ice melters indoors can also result in residues on floors and carpets....

Wonderful compost - by Albert Mondor

When the soil in a flower bed is left to itself, it degrades and compacts, making the cultivation of ornamental plants more difficult. To counter...

How ice melters affect your pets and home

Pets Ice melters are relatively safe to pets, but a few precautions should be taken to protect pets, floors and carpets. Animals like salts, and it...

How ice melters affect concrete

Most concrete damage is a result of the natural effects of freeze-thaw cycles, not a chemical attack by an ice melter. Moisture seeps into the...

Top 10 Steps to Prepare Your Garden for Winter - by Mark Cullen

Perhaps you are just glad that the weeding, watering and nurturing is behind you for another season and you can finally settle onto the couch...

Benefits of Composting by Owen Reeves

There is nothing better in the summer than fresh produce from your garden! The key to growing quality produce starts below the ground with the...

Mice and rats

Mice will usually live in holes or burrows throughout grassy or bushy areas. Left-over fall leaves or even garden mulches can provide a perfect habitat...

Getting the garden ready for winter by Owen Reeves

I hate to burst your bubble, especially after such a hot summer in the GTA, but it’s time to start getting your garden ready for...

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