Prune shrubs in early spring. The best time of year to prune shrubs is in late winter or early spring, before any leaves or flowers grow. Pruning scars tend to heal quickly in early spring, and early pruning allows you to look at the framework of the shrub before it is covered in leaves. Remove all dead and broken branches, and weak growth. This initial pruning is all that is really necessary apart from a little shaping. Grow plants from seed rather than purchasing plants from a nursery. It can be tempting to purchase plants that already have a head start, but it is usually not necessary. By growing from seed, you could find yourself landscaping your yard for under $50.00 worth of different plant seeds, rather than spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars at a plant nursery. For planting spring bulbs in the winter, decide where you want them to go and dig individual planting holes at the correct spacing. Place some small four inch plastic pots inside the holes with the rims slightly exposed and fill with soil. When spring comes, planting the bulbs is a breeze. Just remove the pots and place the bulbs in the empty hole. Fill the hole with the soil that was in the pot. It isn’t necessary to have a huge back yard or large space in order to be a gardener. It is even possible to have a small garden somewhere like an apartment. If you live in a smaller space you will want to look into the possibility of having a potted garden in your laundry area. Give the slugs a good send-off. While there are many commercial slug baits on the market, you can create a ‘humane’ way of getting rid of them. Cut a 2-inch end off the bottom of a soda bottle and bury it in the soil next to a plant that they favor, with a slight lip showing aboveground level. Fill it halfway with beer. The slugs will be attracted to the sweetness of the beer, climb in, and drink themselves into a happy (and terminal) stupor. An old wagon can help save time as well as your back. Instead of constantly having to retrieve your gardening tools as you work your way around your garden, commandeer an old child’s wagon. An old wagon works as well as a garden cart, and can often be obtained free or very cheaply if you get it used. You were told in the opening of this piece that if you read on, you would learn a few things about planting and growing. Hopefully, that has taken place and you are ready to go out in the yard and plant some seeds. Keep in mind what you have learned, and you’ll have fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers in no time. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/21/quick-tips-to-help-you-get-more-from-your-garden/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/quick-tips-to-help-you-get-more-from-your-garden/
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INGREDIENTS:4 Grapefruit PREPARATION: Dice pinepple; cut grapefruit and oranges in sections. Wash berries and The Sauce This makes enough for about 30 “wingettes”. Mix all the The Wings Fry the wings in a deep fryer set at 375 degrees F., using Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/21/recipe-ambrosia-rose/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/recipe-ambrosia-rose/ Never Worry About Gardening Again With This Piece
Gardening can be more than a relaxing pastime. A well-maintained garden can be the crowning glory of a fine home, and even the humblest abode looks better with a nicely-tended garden. Read on to discover how caring for the growing plants around a house can reflect powerfully on the house itself and its owners. The best time to fertilize bulb gardens are in the mid-fall season because this is the time when the bulbs plants are growing their roots and multiplying for next year. Try to fertilize the bulbs with a general slow-release fertilizer and apply the fertilizer to the bulbs a month before the ground begins to freeze. The fall season has arrived and the task of emptying our container gardens is at task. However, instead of storing your clay pots in a garden shed for the winter season, why not replace the summer annuals with edible fall vegetables. Having mums in your favorite clay pot signifies fall, however, consider adding alternative edible plants like leafy lettuces such as arugula, endive, bok choy and radicchio. When it is time for a quick salad, simply snip a few leaves, and you will instantly have delicious ready to eat salad. To make your own miniature greenhouse, simply cover a pot with an old plastic bag. This will mimic the humid environment that allows plants inside a greenhouse to thrive. If you’d also like to protect your plant from the weather, build a dome out of a sturdy plastic and place it atop the plant. Find out if the plants you have in your garden have special fertilizer needs. Some plants like slow-release fertilizers, while others prefer nitrogen-rich foods. Most like to be fertilized during the high point of their growing season. A little education will go a long way to improving your garden. To fight off weeds in a natural way, make your own homemade weedkiller. Simply mix water and white vinegar in a bottle, and spray it the same way you would a normal weedkiller. As an added bonus, the vinegar solution will also serve as a source of nutrients to your plants. Yeast traps can rid your garden of slugs. Just sink some shallow jars filled with beer into the ground. The slugs are naturally attracted to the yeast the beer contains. They will enter the trap and won’t come out. Check your traps every few days to keep them clean. Fall is the time of year to start planting those bulbs that produce the beautiful flowers that herald the beginning of spring. These types of spring flowers are easy to grow and can reward you with many years of gorgeous blooms. These bulbs need to be planted a few weeks before the first hard freeze in order to get their root system growing so they can survive the cold winter. A good garden says a great deal about its gardeners. The best gardeners are innovators, always on the lookout for new ideas and handy tips. A garden tended well, which features a rotation of novel plantings and features, conveys to every observer the diligence, sensitivity and imagination of the gardener who maintains it. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/20/never-worry-about-gardening-again-with-this-piece-2/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/never-worry-about-gardening-again-with-this-piece-2/
Give the slugs a good send-off. While there are many commercial slug baits on the market, you can create a ‘humane’ way of getting rid of them. Cut a 2-inch end off the bottom of a soda bottle and bury it in the soil next to a plant that they favor, with a slight lip showing aboveground level. Fill it halfway with beer. The slugs will be attracted to the sweetness of the beer, climb in, and drink themselves into a happy (and terminal) stupor. It is best to use organic mulches because mulch slowly decays and adds nutrients to the soil which improves the soil structure. Organic mulches include buckwheat hulls, coffee grounds, shredded corn stalks, manure, peat moss, pecan hulls, pine needles, sawdust, sphagnum moss, stone chips, bark and wood chips, grass clippings, newspaper, straw, tree leaves, compost and evergreen branches. Sometimes you will need to re-pot your plants. One good way to check if your plants need re-potted is to turn them over and look at the bottom. If you see many roots, it is time to get it into a new pot. If you see few roots, you may not need to disturb the plant. When watering it’s important to make sure that the water reaches all the way to the bottom of the soil. Roots that are grown closer to the surface are more likely to get damaged, and in turn produce plants that are less hardy and more susceptible to damage. By pouring water only on the top layer, the roots are forced to grow upwards and become shallower. Create a deep flower border. Most people think the standard flower border should be about three or four deep, but a showy border needs to be at least six or eight feet. This will give you enough space to plant small ornamental trees and large flowering shrubs, along with the usual annuals and perennials. If one plants many different things in their garden then they will be rewarded with many different foods that they can now eat. By planting things that will grow well together such as a tomato plant with cucumbers on the ground below the tomato plant can increase the return from one’s garden. Store your seeds well. If you do not store your seeds properly, they will not last long. A great place to store your seeds in a dark spot that is cool and has low humidity. You could even use a refridgerator. You can use zip bags to hold the seeds themselves. As gardening grows in popularity, more and more people are looking for ways to get the most out their gardens. If you use the tips and techniques you’ve read about in this article, you will soon find your garden flourishing like never before. Just put these ideas to work for you! Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/20/smarten-up-your-gardening-with-these-helpful-tips/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/smarten-up-your-gardening-with-these-helpful-tips/
So much can be said about gardening. It is a way to commune with nature, to breathe life into the earth, and so on. However, there are a number of important points to remember when gardening in order to ensure a positive, stress-free experience. This article lays out some of those points in a straightforward manner. If you order roses and they arrive in the mail, be sure to get them in the ground as soon as possible. If you can’t, be sure to keep them in a damp container and cool. They will be fine if you stick them in a bucket of water for a few days before planting. Just be sure not to let them dry out because that can kill the plant. Yeast traps can rid your garden of slugs. Just sink some shallow jars filled with beer into the ground. The slugs are naturally attracted to the yeast the beer contains. They will enter the trap and won’t come out. Check your traps every few days to keep them clean. When you get new plants for your garden, make sure you are meeting their sun requirements. Some plants prefer low sun and shady areas, while other plants require full sun in order to thrive. Giving your plants the wrong light level can cause them to wilt and die too soon. Protect your soft fruits from birds. Birds can be a problem when your soft fruits are maturing. Cover bushes with temporary netting once the berries start to ripen. Wall-trained soft fruit can be draped with netting attached to the top of a nearby wall, and allowed to hang over the plant like a curtain. Just be sure that the netting you use is fine, so that the berries get enough light. Get the most out of garden space by growing compatible crops. When growing a crop like tomatoes, plant lettuce and spinach in between to grow in the shade of the taller plants. This will maximize the space used in the garden. Also, grow plants which mature at different times alongside each other like carrots and radishes. The radishes will be ready in only thirty days while it takes much longer for the carrots to mature. If you have room, consider putting in a raised bed in your garden. A raised bed prevents soil compaction from people stepping on the soil. Raised beds also provide better drainage for your plants, allowing roots to breathe better. Another advantage is that you can control the soil quality better in a raised bed. If your home just has a small patio, you can still have a garden by growing plants in containers. Container gardening can give you the option to grow all kinds of flowers, plants, and even vegetables. You can also bypass the problem of frost by taking your containers inside during frosty weather. Gardening is a wonderful way to bond with nature. This article provides some pieces of advice to keep in mind when gardening so you can have the least stressful, most positive experience possible. The tips provided can help you go about gardening properly and concentrate on the things that make you happiest. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/19/how-to-grown-and-organic-vegetable-garden/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/how-to-grown-and-organic-vegetable-garden/ Reducing Stress By Growing A Home Garden
Planting and caring for a garden is one of the most enjoyable hobbies a person can do. Gardening newcomers usually need a lot of help to get started and even seasoned gardeners need some help from time to time. Check out the advice in this article for useful information on gardening that you can use today. Create a nighttime garden by adding outdoor lighting. A garden should be enjoyed at all times of the day. It is easy to illuminate your yard with lighting that operates with solar or electric. Several manufacturers make lights of all designs for outdoor use that come in a range of prices to fit all budgets. Grow evergreen plants. If you grow too many evergreen plants, your garden runs the risk of looking very gloomy, but a few well-placed evergreens can give a year-round framework. Choose evergreen plants with variegated or lighter green foliage, rather than sticking to darker colors. They can be used as a backdrop for spring and summer plants, and be the main attraction in the fall and winter. When designing your garden, choose high-yield crops, such as tomatoes and herbs. These items will allow you to maximize the space you have available in your garden. The more produce you can grow at home, the more money you can save in your grocery bill each month, so it pays to know what will produce the most for your efforts. Keep your gardening tools organized. You do not want to trek out to your garden, only to realize you do not have everything you need with you and need to hunt your tools down. Keep small tools in a tool belt that you can grab and throw on easily or keep them in a 5-gallon bucket that you can carry out to your garden, quickly. Store your seeds well. If you do not store your seeds properly, they will not last long. A great place to store your seeds in a dark spot that is cool and has low humidity. You could even use a refridgerator. You can use zip bags to hold the seeds themselves. When you are pruning a tree, make sure that your tools are sharp. Cutting with a dull tool can tear the bark off the tree, causing unnecessary damage to the tree. Not only that, cutting with a dull tool causes you to spend extra energy in cutting. A sharp tool will give you a cleaner cut with the least amount of effort. To get rid of the snails plaguing your garden, set an open container of beer on its side where you usually find them. The snails will be drawn to the scent of the beer and trap themselves. If you’d like to make this trap even more effective, try adding a little bit of brewer’s yeast to the can. Working in the garden is a very enjoyable activity for most people. Many gardeners, whether they are new or experienced, need help and advice to get the best out of their gardens. Following the advice in this article can help anyone improve their garden and increase their satisfaction of working in the garden. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/19/reducing-stress-by-growing-a-home-garden-5/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/reducing-stress-by-growing-a-home-garden-5/ Add Interest To Your Garden With These Useful Tips.
To fight off weeds in a natural way, make your own homemade weedkiller. Simply mix water and white vinegar in a bottle, and spray it the same way you would a normal weedkiller. As an added bonus, the vinegar solution will also serve as a source of nutrients to your plants. For a mass of color from summer until the first frost, choose hardy fuchsias. Among the most popular and easy-to-grow shrubs, hardy fuchsias carry masses of bell-shaped flowers over a long season. They are perfect in garden beds, or grown as hedging. They grow in a variety of soils, but like it well-drained. Moderate sunshine is needed for masses of flowers, but a hardy fuchsia will actually grow in part shade, it just won’t produce as many blooms. Excellent varieties include Alice Hoffman, Tom Thumb, Lena Dalton and Tennessee Waltz. Keep slugs out of your tender plants. Cut the bottom 2 inches off a plastic soda bottle to make a ‘saucer’. Dig a little hole near to any tender plants and bury the saucer with about 1/4 inch left above ground. Fill it with beer, and leave it overnight The slugs will be attracted to the sugar in the beer and will make their way in, never to get out again! Try planting a ‘one-color’ garden bed. While this takes quite a bit of work, due to the limitations of the color palette, it can create a very striking visual. The emphasis is placed more on shape and structure, and it is especially helpful in a small garden, as it makes the area appear much larger. Remember that ‘one-color’ doesn’t mean a single shade. Use all shades in the color palette. For example a blue garden can feature flowers in shades of blue, purple and mauve. To make sure you’re getting a level edge when pruning your bushes, use a piece of rope or a line. Simply fasten the rope to two pieces at the approximate height you’d like the bush to be at. Seeing the bush along this straight line will make it easy to see if it’s level at a glance. A great tip to consider in regard to gardening is the fact that you want to wait a few weeks after spreading your fertilizer before planting your crops. This is important because the soil needs time to blend and stabilize its pH levels. During this time you can help the process by manually tilling it. Working in the garden is a very enjoyable activity for most people. Many gardeners, whether they are new or experienced, need help and advice to get the best out of their gardens. Following the advice in this article can help anyone improve their garden and increase their satisfaction of working in the garden. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/18/add-interest-to-your-garden-with-these-useful-tips-4/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/add-interest-to-your-garden-with-these-useful-tips-4/ What’s 100 Calories A Day?
According to the American Dietetic Association, the difference between weight loss and weight gain can be as little as 100 calories a day. Most Americans suffer from ‘weight creep’ – those nagging pounds that creep on over the years – at an average of about 2 pounds per year. That’s 20 pounds in ten years. 40 pounds in 20. Can you afford to weigh 40 pounds more than you do now in twenty years? The difference could be as simple as cutting out 100 calories a day from your daily diet – or adding 100 calories a day to your daily routine – or a combination of both. How hard is it to cut 100 calories a day out of your diet? Take a look. Are you a coffee lover? If you drink your coffee with whole milk, you can save 100 calories a day by drinking two cups with skim milk instead. Do you drink non-diet soft drinks? One 16 ounce Pepsi is 250 calories. Skip one Pepsi a day and you’ll be cutting out two and a half times the suggested calorie reduction. Substitute a plain donut for a jelly donut. You’ll cut out 120 calories. Think you’re doing better by choosing the lighter croissant? Think again. A croissant has as many calories as a jelly donut – 289. If you eat out at Mickey D’s, skip the dressing on your salad, or you might as well have a burger. One packet of French dressing has 160 calories. If you go out with the guys, drink one less beer. Each 12 oz beer, even a light brand, averages 100 calories. Want to burn it up instead of avoiding it? Here’s how much time you need to spend at various activities to burn 100 calories. Swimming energetically for just 15 minutes will burn 100 calories. You can burn 100 calories for every hour that you do housework. Only have ten minutes? Jump rope. At 700 calories per hour, you can burn up 100 calories in just 10 minutes! Knit for an hour and fifteen minutes. At 85 calories an hour, it’s not a major calorie burner, but if you combine that with the potato chips you can’t munch while you’re knitting you could be saving some substantial calories. Stay late at the office for an extra forty – unless of course, you’re missing your workout at the gym. An hour of office work burns about 140 calories. Hop on the trampoline for fifteen minutes. Moderate aerobics exercise burns 400 calories an hour. Put on some music and dance on the tramp through four songs and you’ll be doing great. Go for a 10 minute walk – but aim for a brisk pace. Power walking burns 600 calories an hour. You can burn 100 in ten minutes. Play a round of golf at the club. Half an hour of golfing – without a golf cart – burns 120 calories. The beauty of it all is that you can build any of the suggestions above into your daily routine, and create a healthy habit that will keep off extra pounds and take off those that you want to lose now. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/18/whats-100-calories-a-day/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/whats-100-calories-a-day/
Balancing your nutrition and receiving proper nourishment all around can help you look and feel better. But before you decide to start with any type of nutrition-specific diet, you first need to learn a little bit more about the topic. Below you’ll find some nutrition-based tips to help you out. To help you keep your acne under control, make sure to drink plenty of water. Drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day or two liters, will ensure your skin does not become dehydrated. Skin being dehydrated is a key cause of pores becoming blocked and so not allowing this to happen, will keep acne at bay. Vitamins and health supplements are just that; supplements. They are made to be taken in conjunction with a healthy diet, not in place of it. If you are taking too many pills and supplements, you risk doing more damage to your health than good. Have your doctor test your blood to see what vitamins you are deficient in, and focus on taking just these. To get kids to eat a more nutritious diet, sometimes you have to make compromises. Because children have not fully developed their taste buds, they tend to be picky eaters. To get them to try something new, combine it with something they already love. The most obvious example of this tactic is to combine vegetables with cheese. If you want to give your children the best nutrion possible, and they seem to be picky about it, trying making it fun. Cut food into fun shapes or provide vegetables with a favorite dip. This will make your child see that good food can be just as much fun as junk food. For good nutrition raw vegetables make a great, healthy snack. They satisfy transient hunger cravings, give that vital feeling of fullness and provide plenty of vitamins and minerals. They are barely more complicated to prepare and store than artificial junk food. They are not even as messy as convenience foods. Raw veggies make a fine bridge between the meals in a healthy diet. If you need to lower LDL cholesterol -that’s the unhealthy kind- you might consider increasing your intake of something that’s not usually known for healthy living: Beer. Studies have recently shown this benefit from beer also increases the good kind of cholesterol, HDL. Those with problems with alcohol shouldn’t take this approach, and moderation is always in order for everyone. Carbs are not the enemy. Your body needs carbs to survive and by cutting them out, you can cause your organs damage or even cause them to fail. That said, there are good and bad carbohydrates. The good ones tend to be complex carbs like whole-grain and other fiber-rich foods. Almost every diet has specific needs, even the most balanced diets. As you have just learned from this article, it’s not hard at all to receive proper nutrition via a balanced diet. The main thing you need to focus on is heeding the wise advice and not simply assuming what good nutrition is. Use what you’ve learned here and keep it healthy. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/17/learn-how-to-diet-properly-by-following-these-great-nutrition-tips/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/learn-how-to-diet-properly-by-following-these-great-nutrition-tips/ The Best Gardening Tips, Tricks And Pointers
Gardening is a hobby that many people find enjoyable. Gardeners get to try their hand at creativity and nurturing, as they raise plants from their early stages as little seedlings to prize flowers and crop bearing plants. If you would like to learn more about gardening, then read the following article. Create a series of garden ‘rooms’. The days of a square lawn with a surrounding border are long gone. A garden can offer so much more, by creating different areas to explore. A patio area is simply an extension of your indoor living space. Add an arbor at the end of the patio, leading to another outdoor room. This can be a play area for children, or a small vegetable or herb garden. Create seating areas under a tree or nestled in between shrubs. Add an element of surprise, such as a unique sculpture or piece of large pottery. Let your garden reflect your personality! When kneeling to do your gardening you need to make sure that you protect your knees from rocks and sticks that may be on the ground. Kneeling down on a rock could cause serious injury to your kneecap. Getting a knee pad is a simple and easy way to help protect your knees and increase your overall comfort while gardening. Yeast traps can rid your garden of slugs. Just sink some shallow jars filled with beer into the ground. The slugs are naturally attracted to the yeast the beer contains. They will enter the trap and won’t come out. Check your traps every few days to keep them clean. A great tip to consider in regards to gardening is the fact that picking flowers off of your annuals can actually be beneficial to your plants. This is important to know because when you do this, it will actually train your annual plants to produce flowers on a greater frequency. When planning your first garden start small. Many people try to do too much when they first start planning. They don’t realize all of the work that goes into a garden and so they get in over their head. Start with no bigger than a one hundred square foot plot, and your garden will have a much better chance of succeeding. If you plan to be a gardener, start with the right tools. A hoe, rake, hose, and spade are the minimum that you will need. Planting without these supplies will be difficult, time consuming, and sometimes even impossible. Many garden centers offer “getting started kits” with all of the supplies you will need. Test the pH of your soil to see whether you have soil that is more acidic or more alkaline. Different plants thrive better in different types of soil. Proper soil is essential for having success in your garden. Knowing the pH of your soil will help you make better plant choices. As stated before in the introduction for this article, gardening is a hobby that many people find enjoyable. Those who garden, nurture plants from seeds to flowers and crops. By using the information from this article, you can become a successful gardener and raise your own plants from seeds. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/01/17/the-best-gardening-tips-tricks-and-pointers-3/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/the-best-gardening-tips-tricks-and-pointers-3/ |
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