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Improve your water harvesting system

Bogdan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:01:08 +0000

If you are familiar with our posts, we have written before and stressed the importance of rain water for your flowers or vegetables, and, of course, for your budget. Plants are a lot happier when being watered with natural watered. You can store this water in barrels or other recipients, but the problem remains getting a large quantity of water in a single place, instead of pouring over a large area.

You can direct the water by creating a path for it to follow (water spouts, for example). The biggest problem with water spouts in the process of harvesting the water, is that they are usually very close to the soil, and you can’t place a large container underneath them.

In this case, you can place rain chains at the edges of your house which will direct a large quantity of water directly into a container.

The garden rain chains are made of aluminum or copper, and can be found in various forms or styles: Japanese rain chain, cups rain chain, links, double links Zen loops etc.

You can also install a digital Waterflow controller, that can be connected with a computer, that checks to the local Weather Bureau for the forecast and decides if the plants need an intense watering or none! This can really save you a lot of money!

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A new luxury yacht: Seabourn Sojourn

Bogdan — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:37:19 +0000

This luxury yacht, property of Seabourn, it’s called Sojourn, and will be launched this June. Among others, it offers 225 luxury suites measuring 295 to 1,682 square feet, 90% with private verandas, four dining venues where you can find eclectic menus developed specifically for The Yachts of Seabourn by celebrity Chef Charlie Palmer, lounges, six bars and a spa.

The spa menu is very interesting. Here are some of the exclusive services it offers:

Seabourn 24 Karat Gold Facial
Elemis Skin IQ for Men Facial
Thai Herbal Poultice Massage
Thai Massage
Elemis Aroma Stone Therapy
Couples Massage and Bathing Ritual
Swedish Massage
Ionithermie Cellulite Reduction Program
Fire and Ice Manicure and Pedicure

The list above represents probably 10% of the services they offer in the spa.

The itineraries aboard of Sojourn are numerous and vary, as price, location and length. You can choose to take a vacation in Canada & New England, Europe, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Northern Europe, South & Central America or more general like Transatlantic Crossings, World Cruises or Grand Voyages. The length varies from 6 to 26+ days.

So, any plans for the summer?

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Crystal House

Bogdan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:28:13 +0000

Actually, it’a a house covered in glass. I think the only problem for this house is.. privacy. Just look at the picture with the bathroom. It has a full window open for streetview, or for insideview, depends on which side of the house you are

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Terrace and rooftop gardens

Bogdan — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:31:45 +0000

Probably best suited for penthouses, and last story inhabitants, these rooftop gardens are beautiful, and should be seen more often, especially on crowded polluted cities.

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Eco when watering your plants

Bogdan — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:15:30 +0000

If you want to get in new eco trend, what can be more economical than saving water, even when you take care of your garden? You might say: I already am, because it’s raining pretty often and I don’t have too do it myself. Well, what about your indoor plants? Forgot about those, didn’t you?

While nature can take care of your garden in some areas, you can be a real ecologist by storing the water in rain barrels when it rains and use it later (that mostly applies to areas where it doesn’t rain that often). You can use that water for you indoor flowers also – it’s even more recommended.

But how can you start in this process of rain harvesting?

The simplest way is to place barrels under the water spouts of your house. This will do just fine, but you won’t get the maximum quantity. For more efficiency, position a chain in the spout: this will make the water flow a lot more precise. Professional rain water barrels have a side flat (for saving space), a valve for the hose, and are designed in various ways to fit well in the environment – after all, why does a barrel have to look a like a barrel? It can be a box, a wall, a crate…

If you decide to start harvesting in a rain barrel, you’re lucky: it’s a lot more organic and healthy for your plants!

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Gardening in June: useful advices

Bogdan — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:56:46 +0000

Long lasting plants

In June, consider planting some summer flowers that will bloom every time until the frost comes, like: petunias, sage, lion’s mouth, queen of the night, dills, coreopsis etc. If you’ll plant those later, they will have difficulties in growing and they will have a light bloom, because the summer heat will affect them.

Rare and remove any weed from the young plants

Most flowers and vegetables seeded in the months until June have already bloomed. It is important to rare those and remove any weeds. If you don’t do this at the right moment, the plants will be compromised, growing frail and remaining little, overwhelmed by weeds, they will lack light and food because they will be too frequent. Eventually, they will bloom a lot later and will produce less and smaller flowers. In this kind of conditions, the vegetables will loose their quality too. Remove the weeds from the roots and get them out of the garden! If you leave them there, the first rain will revive them, because of their great survival properties.

Loosing the soil and destroying the crust

Because of the rains, frequent watering and even work and walks done in the garden, the soil will harden and form a crust at the surface, highly unfavorable to flowers, vegetables, trees and vine. The crust has to be fought with a light breeding, using the dig or the spud. This way, you can favor the water and air path into the soil and destroy the weeds, a feared competitor to water and nutrients for all crops.

Don’t neglect the watering

The weather is a lot hotter, so the lack of water is starting to get noticed in the soil for all the plants. You have to water very well, in a way that will make the water run towards the roots of the plants. If you seed some vegetables too, it’s good to know, for example, that the cabbage, the cauliflower, the cucumbers, the onion, the salad, the celery are great water consumers. Moderate consumers are the tomatoes, the peppers and the eggplants. Perennial vegetables are more resistant to drought than the annual ones. Water the garden early in the morning and in the evening, with water kept in open containers, that has the same temperature as the air, and repeat this process every 7-10 days.

The continuous blooming secret

For some species, you have to remove the flower as soon as it withers, to stop creating seeds, a process that will unnecessary use the nutrients and the water from the soil (unless you want to obtain the seeds!!). For the majority of the annual plants, the withered flowers should break at the stem clamping. For the roses, cut the stem for a region that will go down until it reaches the first leaf consists of five small leaves (folio); the first leafs under the flower have only three folios. Be careful that the first bud under the cut to be oriented to the bush exterior. This will grow a shoot on which, in some soils, in autumn will bloom a new flower. On bulb plants (daffodils, tulips, hyacinths) tear the entire stem, until the first leafs, which you’ll leave as they are until they turn yellow and dry. For the lilac, you can remove only the withered flowers on top of the branches, without cutting the wood part.

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How to choose mailbox systems

Bogdan — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:03:49 +0000

At some point, mailboxes become rusty and unaesthetic and it’s time for a change. If you have a house, it will simpler to choose from a large area of mail boxes available on the market. Most of the people who live in a house, will probably choose a pole or a fence mounted one.

The big problem is for buildings with more inhabitants, or bigger companies. In this case, the constructor, or interior designer, will have to consider the purpose for those mailboxes: enough width, enough height, sufficient space for storage, but without going to big so the system can fit everybody.

The most used system is by using wall mount mailboxes, and some constructors can fit these in the wall to safe a lot of space. If space is not a problem, and you realized after you finished decorating in your company that you forgot about this important factor, you can choose a cluster box. This is basically a large poll mounted mailbox, divided into separate boxes and, depending on the budget, they can be made from very resistant materials for security (reinforced gate crossbar, heavy duty stainless steel).

And you thought they are just steel boxes, with not such a big assortment to choose from. After all, mail is important for everybody, right?

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Use contractors when renovating your home

Bogdan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:03:09 +0000

Everyone gets tired with how their house looks, sooner or later. It won’t matter if you have the most expensive furniture, the most relaxing dye on the walls and the most ergonomic appliances. When the moment comes (and it will come, trust me), and you want to redecorate or renovate your home, be sure to contact a contractor.

What you should know about general contractors is that they are like that person that always has the right connections, in this case the right building, renovating, redecorating, construction companies. And the best part is that they are responsible for the entire operation (you only sign with one organization for the entire work).

You can hire contractors to renovate your bathroom, kitchen, basement, entire home and it’s quite easy to find them: you can search online by using the area you like to decorate + operation + your location, in this order or you can try combinations (ex: Kitchen Renovation Calgary or Calgary Home Renovations).

After you find the one that you think it will be able to fulfill your vision, make sure to check his recommendation, also, on the internet (feedbacks, testimonials, forums, answers).

This way, you can always keep your home fresh and not get bored, but also keep all the trouble off your head during the process of renovation.

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Mail security on sale

Bogdan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:32:03 +0000

Do you remember the dvault mailboxes? If not, I will tell you again: the dvault system developed a very effective solution for safe mail by producing hard steel mailboxes for homeowners and businesses. The three main categories: post, column and wall mount are now on sale!

The main reason you should consider getting a dvault mailbox is very simple: security! And this security is guaranteed by the heavy-duty 16 gauge Galvannealed Steel, the main fabric in the dvault company! Those mailboxes will look like and act like a vault!

And the good news and reason that I’m writing about them again, is that you can get them on sale if you act quickly. Again, be sure to order a post if you like the post mounted one, and choose the color you like if you want it to blend in and don’t look like the main point of interest in your garden, because, you don’t want that from a mailbox, even as secure as this.

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Classy Accessories Made of Stainless Steel

Bogdan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:15:57 +0000

Whether you’re at home in you kitchen, or in the garden, near a barbeque, or in a fancy restaurant, or driving in your car, or exchanging business cards with an important person, or just arriving somewhere and looking for a hook to put your coat on, you’ll be surround by stainless steel.

You might think this material is so usual that it has nothing classy in it. Well, you are very very wrong. Polished with the latest technologies and designed in a modern and minimalist manner, nowadays stainless steel accessories are a real example of fine art.

Some companies, like blomus, dedicate their work in creating products, like: stainless steel mailboxes, or stainless steel fireplace accessories, office, outdoor, relaxation, cooking, dining and other dedicated items. You can find their products by simply searching for “blomus stainless steel mailboxes” or “blomus stainless steel fireplace accessories”, for example.

My personal favorites are the stainless steel fire pit, the letterbox, the aromatherapy burner, the waste paper basket (I already have one, but it’s black) and the tea warmer hot plate.

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