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Dear Tony: Our strata is a combination of condos, a聽hotel and businesses on聽the ground floor. We share some common expenses for maintenance and repairs, on-site staff and insurance.

Dear Helen: I have thornless blackberry canes that produce a bounty of large, tasty berries.

Dear Reena: Can you please tell me the best natural solution for unclogging a slow kitchen drain? I鈥檓 in a condo, on the third of four floors, and the drain often gurgles.

A personal love for jigsaw and crossword puzzles, which bring moments of usefully absorbing diversion, probably explains at least partially the fun I find in helping friends and others solve gardening puzzles.

They say an Englishman鈥檚 home is his castle, but this Englishman and his Canadian wife have a distinctly different view of home.

Last summer was perfection for staked tomatoes in my garden. By early September every last fruit had ripened and been bottled, frozen or roasted for winter meals.

Dear Tony: No one in our strata has been prepared to talk about this issue, but we have found out we have a convicted sex offender living in our townhouse complex. Our strata is predominantly families and seniors.

Dear Helen: The leaves on聽my fuchsia plants are turning a wine colour. Their pots are kept adequately watered. P.S. Foliage turning purple-red to bronze usually indicates inadequate phosphorus levels in the soil.

It鈥檚 hard not to stare at the stairs when visiting this home.

Interior design changes with the passage of time. The patterns of our lives shift as we get older. Space requirements connected with work and play, families and hobbies stretch out or contract according to the requirements of the day.