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Japanese beetle grubs decimated our “easy to care for landscaping” shortly
after we bought our condo because our builder planted the entire neighborhood
with plants that attract Japanese Beetles. Our final solution was to rip out
every bush and plant in the yard and let it lay fallow for a year. It wasn’t
pretty but it worked.
They’re back.
Dang it!
Commercial grub killers from the big box store do not work for me (hich I
only tired as a last resort.) I was leery of what the "90% OTHER INGREDIENTS" listed
on the label actually were next to the warning about not using the stuff around
kids, dogs, and fish ponds. So, yeah. I'm glad it didn't work.
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Husband and I were cruising the nursery when an apache pepper plant caught his eye and we decided then and there to grow peppers in our patio garden. Yummy!
Unfortunately the self watering planter I made from a plastic storage tub had different ideas and cracked when visiting the Land of Ice and Snow (although most people call it Winter.) I wasn’t surprised because I used a light duty storage container to make the first planter.
There wasn't any love lost because while the self watering planter worked great, having a plastic storage tub taking up space on my patio wasn't' very pretty. I promised Husband a new and more rugged planter box we won’t be embarrassed to have in our back yard.
I like to clear cooking smells after dinner with a scented soy wax melt in the candle warmer I keep in the kitchen. While Husband is fantastic about giving me eco friendly wax warmer melts (affiliate links for your convenience) as gifts, I want to switch up the scents in my collection (thanks Honey!) I decided to burn a soy candle and wouldn't you know it, all but one were spent.
I spent a rainy Saturday morning making my old spent candles into new soy candles. It didn't take very long at all and I got a fancy two toned candle out of the deal because I had more purple wax than I felt comfortable pouring into that candle jar.
I have a like – hate relationship with plastic cling wrap. I like on those
rare occasions that it actually and fully sticks to a container to keep food
fresh. I also hate it most of the time because, no matter what type or brand, it
never sticks, food dries out or gets freezer burn, and I end up tossing the
spoiled food and the plastic wrap in the trash.
So it was no great stretch for me to find a way to keep food fresh without
plastic wrap. Once I started using my Swiss Army knife of easy alternatives, I
noticed we also reduced the amount of weekly household trash by quite a bit.
Yay!
There is an issue with the French drain in my side yard which leaves my side yard is wet and spongy days after it rains. I installed a rain barrel as a temporary fix until I can get my Homeowner’s Association to repair the poor drainage problem. Not to mention being able to capture and use rainwater to water our flowerbeds. A quick drainage fix, free plant water, and being green – high fives all around.
Originally I planned to hook a soaker hose up to the rain barrel as a lower waste way to water the front yard and garden but it didn’t work as well as I hoped because the rain barrel water pressure was practically nil. Turns out the height of your rain barrel determines how much water pressure flows from it and not what I thought – the amount of water in the rain catch system.
How to Increase Rain Barrel Water Pressure the Quick and Easy Way