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How to Grow a Container Garden

Supplies you will need:

Pots (terra cotta or ceramic are best, plastic gets too hot)

Peat-based potting soil which will drain easily and let roots spread (ex. Miracle Grow)

Raw Eggs, in shells

Seeds - Use herbs such as sage, thyme, basil, and rosemary and vegetables such as lettuce, green beans, peas, eggplants, peppers, summer squash, and tomatoes are good for containers. When buying seeds look for packages labeled “compact” or “space saver”.

Plant markers

Gardening Gloves

Trowel - something you dig with

Screwdriver

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A friend of mine was unscrewing a chandelier bulb from an old fixture and the bulb shattered. She told me that she read about using an uncooked potato to remove a broken bulb that was still in the socket. I looked around and saw the trick on some other sites but since this is a “How To” site, I want to have it here. So…

First of all - How NOT to get electrocuted. Before you do anything TURN OFF THE ELECTRIC POWER!!!!! If you can’t figure out which circuit the fixture is on, turn off ALL the circuits. I know it is a big pain to reset all the clocks, but better to be spending time resetting clocks than be out of time altogether because you are dead. See my point?

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I read an interesting statistic in our local paper. The average American home has 25 devices from the consumer electronics world. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, electronics suck as much as 25 percent of their power when not in use. Computers are the worst using as much as 85% of their power for a PC that is always on. How is it electronic devices are using power when they are turned off? Well, it turns out they don’t actually turn off. Many of them go into a standby mode which causes them to continue to use power. It is wasted energy which is bad for the enviornment and wasted money which is bad for the pocketbook.

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I hate paying for mulch for my garden. Mulch smells bad and it’s expensive. I have discovered a free and easy way to make my own mulch. I use dead leaves and pine needles. In the beginning I raked my own leaves and put them on the beds. Then I discovered the beauty of other peoples leaves. I got this tip from a woman I met at a plant sale at our local arboreteum.

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Home Staging

Trying to sell your house? “Staging” can help. Staging involves styling, cleaning and depersonalizing homes. In other words you create a “scene” for the potential buyer and you hope that they will envision themselves living in that scene. Also, you take away anything that might discourage them from wanting to buy your house. Take a look at these tips from Keller Williams Realty and Home Staging of Alabama:

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