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Dear Helen: I鈥檝e grown a black-fruited tomato for the first time this year and I鈥檓 not sure, because of the almost all-black colour, when the tomatoes are properly ripe. A.M.

Dear Tony: We sold our condo in Burnaby in February. At the time of the sale, we were instructed to pay for a special levy that was due over the next three years to increase the contingency reserve fund.

One of the experimental changes I聽made in the garden this year was to diversify the sites for planting tomatoes.

sa国际传媒 Housing blames 鈥渕iscommunication鈥� for a blunder that led work crews to mistakenly rip out the original wood windows from the third floor of historic Mount Edwards Apartment House in Victoria.

Dear Helen: Because they were among my father鈥檚 favourite flowers, I聽treasure the dahlias in聽my garden. My problem is that my plants always end up with abnormally short flower stems that are covered in black aphids.

Dear Tony: I sold my strata lot in June. As a condition of sale, the buyer agreed that if there were any refunds from the $3.5-million special levy we paid in 2017, she would authorize the payment to be directed to the seller.

Dear Helen: My husband and I just bought our first house. With it came a beautiful garden. Our problem: We can identify only about half of the bushes and perennials.

Every day, hundreds of emails and calls are managed by the Condominium Home Owners Association鈥檚 advisers from strata councils, property managers, owners, tenants and commercial users.

Sometimes we need to take a few steps backward in order to move forward. We are experiencing just that today as we endeavour to undo the damage that an extreme overload of plastic products has created.

Dear Tony: Our strata corporation just completed a three-year major upgrade and envelope renovation. We have been planning for this project since 2010, and the outcome was well worth the effort.