Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
May 30, 2016
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July 13, 2015
Making a Trellis DIY Project
In spring, we made a v-shaped Trellis for our Clematis. It is cheaper to make a trellis with only a few materials compared to buying one. For this project, I haven't provided exact measurements because you can adjust the length of the wood according to where you want to place the trellis for example in a deep pot or against the fence etc. The measurements also depend on what type of plant you want to use the trellis for such as Clematis, Jasmine etc. Hope the pictures and the instructions below will inspire you to make your own trellis and save some money.
May 30, 2015
Win Your Own Copy of What Plant Where Encyclopedia
This time of the year, my family and I spend lots of time gardening, shopping for the garden, tending the plants, and weeding to keep our garden a clean and well maintained space. For us gardening is exciting, tiring, and relaxing. We love reading books about gardening, trying a variety of different plants and flowers every year, growing to love some plants more than others, talking about plants, recommending our favourites and our tips to family, friends, and neighbours. Recently, I got a wonderful book from DK that tells all about what plants go where in our garden.
April 24, 2015
Inspiring Books for Gardening and Learning to Hairstyle
The books Grow Vegetables in Pots and Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet are inspiring the decisions we are making this year for our garden. We love gardening, and over the years have learned many things about how to care for a variety of plants, and to landscape. We are expanding our garden space to accommodate more vegetables and trees this year.
April 5, 2015
Express Yourself By Winning Scotch Expressions Prize Pack
Scotch Brand’s Expressions Tapes are a fun, affordable tool to help add bright and glam colours to our home, and event décor. Expressions Tapes offer us creative, and easy ways to decorate our home whether it is used to create DIY centrepieces for a party, to add colour to glasses or planters, to do crafting with our children, or to update plain walls with a splash of colour. These Spring Planters are an awesome idea from Scotch to add some creative fun in our home. To make these, you will need...
June 11, 2014
SmartOnes Precision Sprayer to Keep Out Weeds and Ants
I usually pull out the weeds, with a tool and do not use any type of chemical in our garden. Recently, I learned about the SmartOnes Precision Sprayer, which is a multipurpose tool designed to easily eliminate weeds and ants from our lawn, patio and garden. This tool is designed by Premier Tech, a Canadian company.
October 19, 2013
October 3, 2013
Cooking Up Our Fall Pumpkin Harvest
For the first time this year, I planted a couple of pumpkin seeds during spring in our garden. We were super excited to see lots of flowers, huge prickly leaves and a couple of fabulous tasting pumpkins grow in our small pumpkin patch. I saved the seeds from an acorn squash we bought last fall. You too can try growing pumpkins next year with the seeds you save up from this season.
September 4, 2013
Garden Harvested Stir Fry Makes a Delicious Side Dish
August 1, 2013
Win 1 of 3 Command Prize Packs before School Starts
Command 3M products are very handy around our home, as it helps us stay organized. I use their traditional hooks and mini hooks in many places around our home. I am starting to think of ways to organize and get everything ready before school starts in September. I like that Command Clear products help us clear up clutter, keep wires in order and make the most of small spaces. They are stylish, easy to use and do not damage the surface it is placed.
We don't need nails, screws and tacks when we use Command™ Clear products they make it fast and easy to hang and clear clutter. The revolutionary Command™ Clear Adhesive Strip holds strongly on a variety of surfaces, including paint, wood, tile and more. It removes cleanly without making holes, marks, or sticky residue.
The advantage of using Command™ Clear Strip allows us to seamlessly show our decor, without the hooks and clips being visible. Rehanging them is as easy as applying a replacement Command™ Clear Strip, so we can take down, move and reuse them again and again.
They have a variety of clear transparent Command™ products such as Medium hooks, mini hooks, decorating clips, flat cord clips, round cord clips and utensil hooks. I just wish the packaging it comes allows to store the clips back in it until we need to use it again, since all the packages need to be saved for instructions such as the surfaces it can be placed etc.
Giveaway:
We are giving away 3 back-to-school Command™ prize packs valued $50. Your prize package will include a variety of fabulous Command products. Win 1 of 3 prize packages before August 26th by entering the rafflecopter below, this giveaway is open to everyone in Canada.
Update: The winners are Jen, Kristy and Tricia
Update: The winners are Jen, Kristy and Tricia
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June 4, 2013
Dad's Will Enjoy These DIY and Woodwork Books
Our dad's will enjoy getting colourful, useful books like this Do It Yourself and Woodwork, as the information on these books will help do quick fixes and larger projects. These go-to books are simple, easy to follow, and has lots of practical tips and techniques. My husband has used the Canadian edition of Do It Yourself to help him fix lots of things around the home from small to big jobs such as adjusting loose toilet seats, changing fuses, unblocking drains, fixing gutters and more.
May 9, 2013
The Black and Decker Dual line Trimmer and Edger helps keep our garden neat
My husband and I enjoy gardening, as the outdoor gardening season in Toronto is short :) We encourage each other to keep our garden neat so we can admire it throughout the summer. We enjoy spending time watching birds, gardening different flowers, fruits and vegetables so it important for us to make sure our garden looks neat and maintained. To motivate us and not feel as though gardening is a chore, we think it is important to have the correct gardening tools.
The rock and wooden gardening edges in our garden makes it hard for us to cut the grass that grows in the edges using the lawnmower. This 14" Black and Decker 6.0 AMP Dual line trimmer and edger has helped us overcome this problem. It has also made us perfectionists in the garden, as the trimmer helps us keep our garden neat and clean.
May 5, 2013
Gardening With CUTCO Tools
When gardening I think one of the most important things to have are reliable tools, which will not frustrate us. I find CUTCO gardening tools to have a good quality that is reliable and durable.
Since 1949 CUTCO guarantees the quality of their products, as they have a forever guarantee for the performance, sharpness and replacement of all their products. We don't need to hold onto the receipts to use their guarantee.
May 4, 2013
O’Keeffe will help heal the cracks and dry skin on our hands and feet
Usually during this time of the year when we are out in the garden I sometimes like using my bare-hands to dig into the soil and plant, which has side effects of ruining my skin. Many people I know have issues with either their hand or feet drying or splitting when the weather is extremely cold or too hot, and look for a solution that works instantly.
We came across this skin care cream that helps to heal extremely split cracks and dry skin in our hands and feet.
We came across this skin care cream that helps to heal extremely split cracks and dry skin in our hands and feet.
April 30, 2013
No space is too small for a garden
I like growing herbs in the summer in small spaces and pots, so it doesn't spread all over the garden. I find growing our own vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers is rewarding. It is rewarding to plant our own herbs and vegetables, as we can get local, organic food from our own garden that will makes us happy.
Last year I put lots of top soil, manure, compost from Pefferlaw that benefited our garden and helped produce a good crop of tomatoes, eggplant, okra, bitter melon, chillies, herbs and more.
April 9, 2013
The Birds of North America that visited our garden
House Sparrow |
Birds of North America is a complete photographic guide to every Bird species we will see in North America written by experts from Canada and US. We really enjoyed learning about birds from this jargon-free book. This guide has close up, colourful photography that brings over 650 birds species to life. It is a wonderful reference book to people of all ages with all levels of
experience. We liked learning about the social behaviours and nesting
habits of the birds we encounter during different seasons. Learning and recognizing the different species of birds becomes easier with a colourful book like this.
April 5, 2013
Mystery of Life: Our survival depends on flowers
Before watching the Disneynature Wings of Life I thought the movie was about butterflies. However, while watching the movie I realized it is called “Wings of life” because it outlines the importance of pollinators such as beetles, insects, bees, hummingbirds and bats that carry the pollen grains to other plants, so the plants can reproduce. I recommend this heartwarming movie for the whole family, as it points out the importance of flowers. This DVD and Blu-ray combo will be available on April 16th.
I also read the book Rainforest by Thomas Marent, which is filled with beautiful close-up photographs of the rare beauties found in the exciting, but dangerous tropical rainforests. The pictures are amazing, which shows us the uniqueness and the beautiful details found in nature if we just stop to look at it.
March 24, 2013
We are planning to take lots of Gardening Shortcuts this Summer
It is that time of the year when we start thinking of gardening projects and designing outdoors. I totally look forward to spring, as I like to plan and think of all the possible projects we can do in the garden even before the ground thaws.
Since we are planning on a trip this summer :) the time I have to garden this year is limited. I want to make sure that we maximize the fun of gardening by spending as little time maintaining it. This book Gardening Shortcuts has lots of ideas that will make this possible, and I am sure every gardener will appreciate the tips found in this book.
The suggested tips and ideas in this book lets us get the maximum benefit of enjoying our garden with less time maintaining it.
Last year, we gave a quick lift to a dull garden space by creating a flowerbed and adding rocks. Seeing this idea in the book made me feel good that I had come up with this project last year.
To make this flower bed we mounted a lot of soil because we wanted some height. Then we planted a Japanese maple tree that we bought from Sheridan. We chose the blood good variety of Japanese maple tree that doesn't grow too tall, and has bright red leaves.
Around the tree, we placed Pefferlaw deco stones and gravel river rocks that can be purchased in all these locations. I like how rocks give a serene, natural atmosphere to the garden while helping control weeds in an eco-friendly way. Usually adding rocks and hard elements to the garden brings the lush colours of plants and flowers to become more focused and attractive.
We also put a solar spotlight in this area that makes the plants glow at night. To give the area more colour we planted different coloured pansies and marigold. To make sure the area does not get a crowded and cluttered we always prune and remove the plants that spread.
This book gives a lot of ideas on how we can create privacy and sheltered spaces in the garden by adding fences and patio. It also has lovely decorative projects that we can do without incurring a big cost.
This book also shows us neat ideas on how we can grow fruits and vegetables in a decorative manner.
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December 5, 2012
Wear holiday cheer using Command
One of the things we like to do during winter holidays are making crafts and hanging them up on the windows. We usually have a hard time hanging these crafts because the tape and suction cups that we have used in the past fall off easily due to humidity on the windows. After we used command hooks to hang crafts, we found that it was easy for us to hang our crafts the way we like without damaging them.
Some craft ideas to place on the windows are stained glass sun catcher or this Paper towel roll flowers and stars.
To make these shiny hanging ornaments you will need...
Paper towel or toilet paper roll
scissors
modpodge
clothespins
different colour glitter
Cut the paper towel roll into 1/2 or 1/4" thickness. Then arrange it to make a flower or star shape. Glue the pieces to attach and secure it with clothespins for a few minutes until it holds together.
Then remove the clothespins and cover the entire flower or star with modpodge and sprinkle coloured glitter all over it. It is better to protect the working surface with newspaper as this could be messy :)
Let it dry completely before hanging.
To hang these crafts on the wall and window we used the Command mini hooks that hold about 1/2 lb. These handy hooks came in a pack of 18 hooks with 24 small strips, which helped us hang crafts and holiday lights on our window. We also used cord clips to keep the holiday lights organized. These cord clips come in a pack with 4 clips and 5 small strips.
I found it easy to remove and replace the position of the hooks, as I didn't want them on the initial spot I placed them. Once we remove the hooks we have to put another small strip when placing it in a different location, this is why Command has extra strips in each packet :)
There are a variety of hooks such as medium hook, medium and large brushed nickel hooks that are useful to hang a variety of things around our home such as bags, towels, brooms etc.
Command also has general purpose large outdoor hooks that hold about 5 lbs., which comes with 2 water resistant strips so we can hang things indoor or outdoor.
Contest:
Enter the contest at Command's Facebook page to get coupons for Command products, which will be useful around your home.
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