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The 2009 No-Cost Garden. Guest post by Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson from Scavenging. This year we're taking a vow: We will try to grow at least half of our food in a garden that costs us absolutely nothing to create and maintain. In order to achieve this goal, we are initiating a new...- Coralline Algae Is Not Supposed To Be White Coralline algae in the marine aquarium in my opinion makes the overall appearance much more attractive and natural. There are some people who dislike coralline algae and each to their own. I have a personal hatred to having any on the front glass and as soon as I spot any...
I Guess It's Been S. A. D. It's the usual spinning plates around here lately. My friend is visiting from Idaho to have some medical and dental appointments taken care of before the end of her husband's Navy career next year (unless he gets a good offer). Tomorrow we are accompanying her to the Naval Hospital...- How to grow asparagus in your garden Asparagus are harvested by hands, and because of high wages this very delicious vegetable is too expensive and almost inaccessible! But when ones stabilized in your garden, asparagus will give the fruit a year after year with very little effort and with almost no costs. Feather like green foliage is...
Country Garden Landscaping for Your Personality Country gardens can be gorgeous and many of us have dreamed having one just like we've seen in gardening magazines. Though the gardens featured there are often professional gardens where the owners have devoted hundreds of hours to planning, designing and maintaining, we picture lush patches of flowers in our...
EarthTalk: Backyard (Organic) Vegetable Gardening In Small Spaces. Dear EarthTalk: I want to start an organic vegetable garden in my yard and I would like to know how to combine crops to make better use of time and space. Most commercial farms concentrate on growing a few select crops to supply a wide variety of customers, but gardening...
The Suburban Garden Expirement A vegetable garden can be a great way to save some money and become more self sufficient. Not to mention they can bring their owners hours of "fun" in the yard. We have lived in our current home for almost three years now and we have never had the time...- Suburban Garden Experiment – May Update It is May now and my garden has been rolling right along for about a month. I have nothing yet to harvest but a lot of action from the seeds I planted. I went through over the past weekend and tried to thin out where I had planted from seeds...
7 Surprising Lessons Gardening Taught Me About Relationships [caption id="attachment_2951" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="My Garden"][/caption] "In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death." Sam Llewelyn I spent my holiday weekend digging holes. I am a gardener, and every year on Memorial Day I plant, and weed, and water, and generally launch...
Investment Landscaping with Perennials When you plant a flower, you are making an investment into the future. Certain plants will work well with others, and some will require completely different ground nutrients. So when it comes to planting new flowers, it is like putting money into a savings account or stocks. Play it smart....
- Coralline Algae Is Not Supposed To Be White Coralline algae in the marine aquarium in my opinion makes the overall appearance much more attractive and natural. There are some people who dislike coralline algae and each to their own. I have a personal hatred to having any on the front glass and as soon as I spot any...
Bio-Media Removed When I first started my current reef aquarium over six years ago I didn’t use any live rock. Instead, for the bio-filtration I used canister filters. There are two Eheim Ecco canister filters installed and I have to say that they are good, well constructed and to date absolutely reliable....
What Should You Actually Wear on a Run? [caption id="attachment_203" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Running in Comfort"][/caption]The pounding and grinding that running can cause is enough. You don't need to feel awkward or uncomfortable because you've chosen the wrong clothes to run in. That's why it will be important to adjust to the kind of running clothes that help many...- Don’t Try To Learn Everything At Once - Take Your Time Keeping marine life is fascinating. This is supported by the fact that the hobby has expanded tremendously over the last decade or so. Not so long ago keeping a marine aquarium seemed more simple, and the decisions to be made were also simple as there wasn’t as much choice. The...
Easter Island - Modern History in Miniature This news from late yesterday, is the story of a Nordic vandal of an Easter Island statue. He lopped an ear off one of the famous statues and has been fined $17,000. The BBC say the statues are up to 1000 years old. Whether the statues have any intrinsic value...- How To Increase The Amount Of Coralline Algae In The Saltwater Aquarium When you start a saltwater aquarium and have purchased your live rock or whatever decorations you are going to use then there will probably not be that much coralline algae in the system (especially if you have chosen not to use live rock!) If you are using live rock then dependant upon the quality of the live rock you should have some coralline algae of some type or other. So how do you increase the amount of coralline algae in the aquarium or in some cases add coralline algae.
- Remember To Harvest The Algae In The Algae Bed In a saltwater aquarium it is preferential to have both nitrates and phosphate as well as various other nutrients at the lowest possible level you can achieve. Growing algae in the sump or in the refugium is an excellent way to remove nutrients from the water column, good examples which are nitrate and phosphate. Once established the algae in the sump/refugium can reduce the nutrients to a very low level.
- The Aquarium Refugium A refugium (or a fuge as they are commonly known) is a small aquarium which either sits next to, hangs upon, is below the aquarium or is above the existing aquarium. A refugium is normally a mixture of a deep sand bed or a mud bed combined with macro algae, however a refugium can also easily be made using a shallow sand bed and macro algae. If a substrate is provided that the macro algae can grow in then a refugium can be made. A refugium is similar to that of the sea grass beds which are used in nature albeit on a smaller scale.
- Cryptic Zones Can Be As Interesting As The Display Aquarium Cryptic zones really interest me. Of course everything in relation to this wonderful hobby is of interest to me but there is something about life growing in complete darkness which I find exceptionally fascinating. A cryptic zone is effectively a place in the aquarium or another aquarium connected to the...
Use Terra-Sorb Water Crystals To Save Water In Your Garden Our gardens are beautiful and can be an excellent way to put our eco friendly green thumbs to work. But plants need water, and lots of it. If it doesn't rain regularly, that usually means using the hose or sprinklers. Unfortunately this is very wasteful of water--it runs off...
Did you hear Dave Ramsey get political, fellow personal finance bloggers? I attended a showing of Dave Ramsey's Town Hall for Hope last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ramsey's message was optimistic - similar to my post earlier this spring - but listed more specifics and with much greater authority. Before last week, I was not very familiar with Dave...- Graham Chapman - Eulogy by John Cleese (Monty Python) I want someone to say that about me at my funeral, at least I want everyone to have a lot of fun on my farewell. Find below John Cleese's eulogy on Graham Chapman's funeral. Graham was (as I am) a physician and most of us have this typical sense of...
- You Cannot Expect To See Change Without Any Effort. In past articles, I have written about how changing a light bulb won't fix everything but also that the little things do matter when added one on top of the other. But one thing I have never said was that this was going to be easy; there is no way...
- Hard truths of adoption, told softly There are many hard truths of adoption, all of which our children own. After all, it is their story. And age appropriately we share with them so they have the knowledge they need to take into the world with them. And some things may turn out to be unexpectedly difficult...
- Taper candles make the Table Taper candles are the perfect ones to use to create an ambiance of elegance. You can get tapered candles as scented and unscented. If you want to have a candlelight dinner it is best to use unscented taper candles so that the scent won’t interfere with the food. You will...
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