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THE HERALD Wednesday May 8 Page -Gardening- To landscape start from scratch Early Spring right now is the time to be planning your land scape whether you have an older home where the planting just needs some rejuvenation or a new home where you must start from scratch According to the Canadian Garden Council by making your plans now youll beat the rush at garden centres and professional landscape firms that generally begins in April In most parts of Canada even earlier in many parts of British Columbia One of the difficulties faced by many homeowners whether it be in an older or brand new home is that of a steep slope in the back garden area Often there is a slope at the end of the property sloping up or down to a road or emergency waterway or the slope may be along one side of the property On older homes such slopes have often been terraced with timbers either old railway ties or pressure treated lumber and after a decade or more the timbers begin to rot andor move On new home sites generally such slopes are just graded and sodded by the developer The resulting slope is often too steep to be cut properly with a rotary lawn mower or when it is the grass is too easily scalped and thus week growth tends to take over and the area has an unkempt look to it all growing season The answer to this problem both on older homes where the timbers need replacing or on the slopes on the lots of new homes is to use in retaining wall systems These were first in about a decade ago and Parenting Tips Centre Work with klutz by VALERIE CUNNINGHAM RN Your preteen or teenager can not walk through a doorway without bumping into both sides of it There are many trips falls and collisions Your preteen or teenager is a klutz because a the is always in the ears during puberty bones grow faster than muscles c heshe is carrying food while moving from the kitchen to the family room hisher feet have just grown agam While you may be tempted to answer all of the above the correct answer is So what can be done Most likely the youngster will be trying to solve the problem naturally Exercise is the best solution There are three mam reasons for exercise 1 flexibility strength and 3 aerobic benefit For healthy growing children the first two are most important as muscles develop Aerobic benefit is im portant too but most children are active and participate in gym and other sports that are good for heart and lungs Therefore to pre vent injuries recommend ap propriate bending and stretching type exercises before engaging in active sports of flexibility exercises gives the muscle increased strength as do some specific exercises Exer cise may help the teen to improve grace and coordination but pa tience will help the parent because this stage too will pass Valerie Cunningham a nurse in independent practice offers a variety of parenting courses and private consultations She may be reach ed at In April and May she will lead two parenting courses for the Georgetown ParentChild Centre For further information call the Centre at allow a natural stone look in several color tones with the con of standard concrete units which lock together in several patterns to form a strong wall that will last for decades without deterioration or shifting In addition to prefab block which provide straight walls of 60 cm to metres in height these systems are now available for curved walls and with special planting boxes that allow clusters of plants of various types even evergreens on ter raced slopes Most of the prefab stones come as two stones in one unit which is then easily split apart on site by one hit with a heavy hammer and chisel The resulting break gives a natural stoneou cropping look to the easilyhandled precast con creteunit Perhaps the greatest ad vantage of these precast stones and their use in retaining walls is that they require no poured con foundations All that is needed is a level ft cm pad of compacted gravel in a shallow trench for walls up to 1 metres high No other foundation is needed The freshly cut blocks are laid dry without mortar one on the other Depending on the height of the wall blocks of greater depth are used at the base In order finish off the wall a coping stone that in terlotks with the stones below runs along the top of either straight or curved walls These new interlocking precast wall systems are not only well suited back gardens with awkward slopes but also for creating planting beds at the front of the home or around swimming pools being added in back gardens While the interlocking wall systems are ideally suited to do it yourself homeowners most landscape contractors ill ton tract to build what is needed and because of the simplicity of he system tne labor is not too substantial so the added is not too great Be sure to in all of the The Canadian Garden Council most of these materials arc available through franchised dealers throughout Canada We Produce Results Local store owner John Hamilton knows that the Herald produces 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