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Dear Reena: As gardening season arrives, I am thinking about planting cucumbers. The problem is that garden cucumbers always taste bitter.

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.

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.

Dear Reena: I was brave and ordered a glass kitchen table. It will be delivered soon. I am now having second thoughts.

With waterfront vistas all the way from Mount Baker and Darcy Island to 10-Mile Point and Mount Douglas, this home offers extraordinary panoramas.

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.

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

Dear Helen: I have a problem with critters befouling empty vegetable plots at night. Cats came close to despoiling the garlic bed while the planted cloves were rooting and before top growth emerged. F.G. That’s a major problem in many home gardens.

Here are some tips and tricks for kitchen efficiency. • To prevent eyes from watering while cutting onions; set your chopping board close to the sink and have a tap running. Or fill your mouth with water while chopping.

Four centuries ago, a French landscape architect designed an exquisite garden for a chateau called Vaux le Vicomte, using principles of scale and proportion to create extraordinary vistas that looked longer and larger than they actually were.