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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Win a Eureka Sleeping Bag!
It is almost time to start thinking about summer and summer activities. I know I can't believe it either! Well, if you are like me you need all the help you can get on camping supplies. Outnumbered 3 to 1 blog is having "A leap into Spring Event" and you can win a sleeping bag from Eureka Tents! They have great sleeping bags and the best part: you can chose from 3 choices. So join me and enter today by going to Outnumbered 3 to 1. Also, you should go to Eureka Tents' website for tents and more!
Monday, March 29, 2010
Just in time for Easter!
Groschen Goblins Blog has a wonderful giveaway that is just in time for Easter: a Classic Easter Basket from Gourmet Gift Baskets! You really don't want to miss this one. And it ends tonight so you must go there now! You should also check out
Gourmet Gift Baskets.
Go to Groschen Goblins Blog to enter before it ends.
Gourmet Gift Baskets.
Go to Groschen Goblins Blog to enter before it ends.
Scrubz Giveaway
The Groschen Goblins is having a great giveaway: a $15 gift certificate to Scrubz! Their products look so lovely and I'd love to win. There is good chance you could win to because 4 people will win! You should check out Scrubz. They have all sorts of great Scrubz. To win, make sure to go to Groschen Goblins Blog to enter today. It ends tonight so hurry!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Win Gorgeous Sandals!
Leslie Love Veggies is having a great contest! Bearpaw is giving a pair of new Bearpaw sandals to one lucky winner. You get to choose the color too. What a great contest! Join me in entering this contest. These shoes are so cute and will look great on you just in time for spring and warm weather.
Go to Leslie Love Veggies to enter. Make sure you check out Bearpaw Shoes too check out all their great shoes! I know I am addicted :).
Go to Leslie Love Veggies to enter. Make sure you check out Bearpaw Shoes too check out all their great shoes! I know I am addicted :).
Win a ThermaPAK Laptop Cooler
Thanks, Mail Carrier has a great giveaway going on right now. I am a brand new blogger so I hope you will join me in entering this wonderful giveaway. Thanks. Mail Carrier is giving away a Thermapak Heatshift Laptop Cooler. This is really a great invention. Everyone who has a laptop knows that their lap becomes unbearable hot after having a laptop on it, even for a short time. It also helps keep your laptop running better by keeping it cooler. This is a great invention!
Go to Thanks, Mail Carrier enter. Make sure you go to Thermapak to find out more about this great website!
Go to Thanks, Mail Carrier enter. Make sure you go to Thermapak to find out more about this great website!
Adventures in Gardening!
Since I was a little girl, I've wanted to grow a nice sized garden. Unfortunately, I never lived in a place where a regular garden was feasible. I got to grow up with friends who lived on farms and I lived vicariously through their efforts in gardening.
As an adult, with each year passing, I kept saying, "Well next year will be different!" I mean while in college who cared, right?! I was just busy getting my essays done on time. After college, I felt the urge to garden again but with a deck and no yard it wasn't possible. But this past year I was determined to have a garden. Thanks to the new "green movement" there is all kinds of options for container gardens.
I decided like a fool, that not only would I have my first container garden, I would also be a organic gardener! This meant no harmful pesticides. This is a huge project for someone who has no gardening experience or ideas or how to keep pests away.
So off I went! I grabbed some tomato plants at a local garden center, some potato seeds, and bunch of seed packets to start on my adventure. I planted my potatoes in these great new biodegradable, Potato Grow Bag. I bought used pots at a flea market. While there, I saw a lady selling bell peppers among other things. I added the bell peppers to my already crammed deck.
I was late to plant my cold weather plants like peas and potatoes. And I refused to weed out my lettuce. I picked tomato plants that grow so big, they regularly get to be 10-15 feet tall in a regular garden. I wanted these tomatoes because they give off some many tomatoes and they are little. I thought, "I can handle them!"
Oh and that nice little bell pepper plant, it gave my garden aphids! It didn't take long for my late peas, over-crowded potatoes and lettuce to attract those nasty aphids. (Never buy plants at a flea market :-P)
Soon my too huge tomato plants were harvesting a nice friend too, spider mites. I had caught a few spiders in the house; no doubt because of the huge behemoths just steps outside my back door. Late I night I would cringe, thinking of how big these tomato plants would get and the horrendous spiders they would bring.
After some research, I discovered a great natural product that would help my garden. DE or Diatomaceous Earth, a crumbled rock silt that kills bugs naturally. So I bought a bag. I sprayed all the leaves and with a hand held water bottle. By hand I stuck the powdery DE onto the wet leaf. DE is completely harmless but it is so fine that you can not breathe it in because it can harm the lungs; So here I was with a mask on in the hot sun covered with white powder, applying DE to each leaf on every plant. I can't imagine what the neighbors must of thought! By the time I was done, there was DE powder all over my deck. It looked like a white snow storm in the middle of summer. It was on the sliding glass doors, the ground and everywhere in between! My mom stopped by and looked out the door in horror. There was really nothing I could do. The DE had settled and wasn't going anywhere. I had a tarp down so none of it blew onto the neighbors.
After I got over the DE debacle, I realized I was losing the war with the aphids. Amazingly, though, the spiders stopped coming in the house. This was a nice side effect. (I know, I know spiders are great for the garden but I hate them!)
Well after the aphids pretty much had a feast for the whole summer, I was left with some produce and a great learning experience. I had more tomatoes than I could eat and hey some potatoes ;-)
So I am off again to do another container garden!
As an adult, with each year passing, I kept saying, "Well next year will be different!" I mean while in college who cared, right?! I was just busy getting my essays done on time. After college, I felt the urge to garden again but with a deck and no yard it wasn't possible. But this past year I was determined to have a garden. Thanks to the new "green movement" there is all kinds of options for container gardens.
I decided like a fool, that not only would I have my first container garden, I would also be a organic gardener! This meant no harmful pesticides. This is a huge project for someone who has no gardening experience or ideas or how to keep pests away.
So off I went! I grabbed some tomato plants at a local garden center, some potato seeds, and bunch of seed packets to start on my adventure. I planted my potatoes in these great new biodegradable, Potato Grow Bag. I bought used pots at a flea market. While there, I saw a lady selling bell peppers among other things. I added the bell peppers to my already crammed deck.
I was late to plant my cold weather plants like peas and potatoes. And I refused to weed out my lettuce. I picked tomato plants that grow so big, they regularly get to be 10-15 feet tall in a regular garden. I wanted these tomatoes because they give off some many tomatoes and they are little. I thought, "I can handle them!"
Oh and that nice little bell pepper plant, it gave my garden aphids! It didn't take long for my late peas, over-crowded potatoes and lettuce to attract those nasty aphids. (Never buy plants at a flea market :-P)
Soon my too huge tomato plants were harvesting a nice friend too, spider mites. I had caught a few spiders in the house; no doubt because of the huge behemoths just steps outside my back door. Late I night I would cringe, thinking of how big these tomato plants would get and the horrendous spiders they would bring.
After some research, I discovered a great natural product that would help my garden. DE or Diatomaceous Earth, a crumbled rock silt that kills bugs naturally. So I bought a bag. I sprayed all the leaves and with a hand held water bottle. By hand I stuck the powdery DE onto the wet leaf. DE is completely harmless but it is so fine that you can not breathe it in because it can harm the lungs; So here I was with a mask on in the hot sun covered with white powder, applying DE to each leaf on every plant. I can't imagine what the neighbors must of thought! By the time I was done, there was DE powder all over my deck. It looked like a white snow storm in the middle of summer. It was on the sliding glass doors, the ground and everywhere in between! My mom stopped by and looked out the door in horror. There was really nothing I could do. The DE had settled and wasn't going anywhere. I had a tarp down so none of it blew onto the neighbors.
After I got over the DE debacle, I realized I was losing the war with the aphids. Amazingly, though, the spiders stopped coming in the house. This was a nice side effect. (I know, I know spiders are great for the garden but I hate them!)
Well after the aphids pretty much had a feast for the whole summer, I was left with some produce and a great learning experience. I had more tomatoes than I could eat and hey some potatoes ;-)
So I am off again to do another container garden!
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