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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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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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Holiday shopping

elutzik — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:05:47 +0000

I personally love and hate holidays at the same time. I love them because they are the perfect occasion to meet with the entire family and just sit down and eat together. And because I’ve noticed that people are more giving on holidays. The reason I hate them is because we always have to clean the entire house with one or two weeks before. Or at least that’s in my family. We move furniture, throw away things we don’t need etc.

And what happens when, while cleaning the coffee table you decide that it doesn’t match the couch? Of course, you want a new one, especially now that the Easter is coming. But there’s only one problem: there is a lot of shopping to do for the holidays like food and stuff and you don’t know if you can afford a new coffee table right now.

When you reach this situation you have two options: either buy the coffee table another time or buy one with a generous discount with coupons.

And don’t think that this is only for uninteresting furniture that no one would buy. You can simply go at Home Depot and choose what you like. Just look for the Home Depot promotion codes.

Now just go online and choose your coffee table and tell your friends about it so that they can take smart decisions as well.

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How to properly decorate your children’s room

Bogdan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:24:47 +0000

Every single parent wishes for a beautiful and healthy kid. The growth and development of your child are influenced by the space he spends most of his time. Taking care of the most elementary hygienic rules of the room, you’ll be sure that you’ll raise a healthy kid.

Choose the room with the best light

A kid needs a room to be only his own. The lightning is very important too. During the day, try to provide as much as it’s possible natural light, and use the bulb (or any other source of artificial light) only at night. Remember that your little one’s room has to be the most light full in the entire house. Also, the walls need to be wallpapered or treated with washable dye and painted in discreet colors. About choosing the right color, or wallpaper, ask him his opinion to find out the “client’s” preferences.

Make sure the temperature stays between 64-68 F (18-20 C) degrees

The Oxygen volume in his room it’s obtained by wide opening the windows. Do not forget to protect him against the current when doing this. The windows have to always be sparkling clean in order to get as much light as it’s possible. The doctors say that the temperature has to be maintained between the values above, independent of the season (cold winter or hot summers). When the temperature drops 64 degrees F (18 C), you can heat it up using a stove, central heating or a radiator. In the summer you can provide the right temperature using ventilation (but not directed towards the child!!!) or by dropping the curtains.

Get the furniture that he needs

Make sure you clean and maintain the hygiene in your child’s room every day. When you wish to decorate this room, do not forget to ask him first about his preferences. Do not hesitate to adapt the furniture items to his necessities. For example, if he already goes to school, the furniture has to be composed of a library, a desk, a bed and a wardrobe. The chair and desk’s sizes need to suit him best, and the chair has to have back support to protect his back and hold his elbows. The desk needs to be positioned next to the window, in a way that light comes from the left side and avoid creating shadows on the books or notebooks.

Make sure he get the most quiet room

In order to grow healthy, your kid needs a lot of sleep. Try to give him the most peaceful and protected room in the house, away from all the noise, capable to provide the right environment for study and restful sleep that he needs. Let him sleep alone, and even he won’t like this, try to convince him to sleep with no lamp light.

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How do we choose our furniture

elutzik — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:01:29 +0000

When you buy a new house, one of the most urgent things to do is to buy some furniture. Of course, after you paint your walls. Anyway, for many this is one of the hardest decisions they have to make, even harder than choosing the wall color.

When you want to buy furniture you have to take some important things in consideration, such as the room you are decorating, whether is a matrimonial bedroom, living room, kids room, garden, kitchen, hallway, closets etc, and the style you would like to adopt in each room.

Even if you don’t have an architect’s advice you can create your own creative space, silence and dreaming by applying some interior design solutions at your fingertips from a variety of styles.

Firstly, you must carefully measure the minimum and maximum dimensions of the desired furniture piece and if world be best if you would take a ruler with you when you go shopping. If possible, ask for sample of the material to see if it integrates with the rest of the room. Fabrics may look different depending on the light. Another important thing is to take your time and don’t be tempted only by what’s on offer. You might end up with stuff you don’t need and maybe not too qualitative.

Lastly, don’t hesitate to ask the personnel of the shop for advice. They are there to help you and it is recommended that you ask their opinion.

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First impression of your house: address plaques

Bogdan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:37:14 +0000

After you installed that beautiful, perfect fit mailbox, you painted your fence (wall) to match your gate (front door), you might think that you did everything: it’s perfect! You have the most beautiful front on your street: the grass is just cut, the roof is freshly installed, the windows are crystal clear, the pavement is just washed, not a bit of dust there, but there is one little detail that most of the people forget about – the address plaque.

You might not notice that, it’s too usual, but be sure your mailmen, your courier, friends, date, relatives, colleagues, they won’t miss it! In fact, that’s what they’re looking for! So, why not help them and get a new address sign, cleaner, bigger that can fit your house design.

If you decide to change it, there are a lot of choices out there: wall address plaques, lawn ones, residential, commercial, address numbers (stainless steel, ceramic, glass, nickel, copper), ones that have small drawings and you can even add a solar powered wall address light that can ease the reading at night.

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