Decorate palm trees :)

Actually palm trees are not very beautiful trees but widely used in landscaping. Only a truck and some leaves on the top.
But in the summer house gardens they work very good as they do not block your or neighbours view.
you can easily decorate the trunk by hanging wall planters or baskets on them.

Plant more beautiful than the flowers in the photo. :)

Vegetable Gardening : How to Grow Heirloom Tomatoes

Here's a video showing howto grow heirloom tomatoes.
Growing heirloom tomatoes is best done in the spring time, in a tomato cage.

I like to eat heirloom tomatoes see the photo of the one I ate last summer. Click the garden label.
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You can use White Vinegar to clean your coffee maker

You can easily remove coffee oils and hard water deposits, using a solution consisting of white vinegar and cold water.

• Mix two parts water to one part white vinegar. Mix a full pot of this vinegar and water solution and pour it into the reservoir of your coffee maker.


• Turn on your coffe maker


• let the vinegar-water mixture cycle through. After the solution has completely run through, turn off the coffee maker and allow the pot to cool


• Pour the solution down the drain, rinse and clean the pot.


• Pour water into the reservoir of your coffee maker and cycle through the coffee maker. This will rinse the vinegar-water solution out of the coffee maker.

It may work for you too. But ofcourse check for the producer comments and user manual of your coffee maker.

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Door handle problem :)

If your house is near the sea and if you are about to buy door handles, think twice.

On the photo you can see a door handle that was bought last year.

Next time I will go to the do it yourself market and ask about the properties of the handles more detailly.

I will tell about the weather conditions and wan a door handle suitable for the weather conditions.

:)

If your hobby is diy and search the net and if you find a solution please tell me

:)

Humidity in vegetable section of refrigerators

Especially in no-frost refregerators sometimes you can find some water inside the vegetable or fruit box . In the fridge there should be air circulation.

The solution is easy.

Just pull the drawer a little and let air flow. Instead of pushing and closing tight it is better to leave the box a little out.

The humidity in the refrigerator will be much less.

Garden pond, green slopes

If you are planning to make a garden pond to your garden you can use several items.

Dig the hole and put a liner or a plastik ready made pond. If you use a membrane liner then to protect it you should use a nonwoven filter.

Select some stones and pebbles for the slopes or use a three dimensional mat to protect sliding the soil or stones inside the pond.

You can use a product called Enkamat or similar.

This products holds the particals and if some plants start to grow through it it will protect the slopes.

How to tell if an egg is bad

Food poisoning is one of the worst experiences a person can go through, and it can even be lethal. Eggs can be the source of some superb meals, but they can also be the source of food poisoning if they are eaten when they've gone bad. How do you tell when an egg is fresh or if it has gone off, without cracking it open to find out?

Steps:
1.Place the egg into a bowl of water. The water level should be deeper than the egg is long.
2.Observe what the egg does.

• Fresh eggs will sink to the bottom of the bowl and lie on their sides.


• Slightly older eggs (about one week) will lie on the bottom but bob slightly.


• If the egg balances on its small end, with the large end reaching for the sky, it's probably around three weeks old.


• Eggs that float at the surface are bad and should not be consumed.

3.Crack the egg open and look carefully.

• Blood spots (also referred to as "meat" spots) don't signify a bad or fertilized egg. It's caused by a ruptured blood vessel during the formation of the egg. Since blood spots are diluted as the egg ages, their presence actually means you have a fresh egg. You can eat it safely, or remove the blood spot with the tip of a knife, if it makes you feel better.[1]


• Stringy, rope-like strands of egg white are chalazae which are present in every egg to keep the yolk centered. They're not a sign that the egg is bad or fertilized, and they can be consumed safely or removed.[1]


• An egg white that is cloudy or has a yellow or greenish cast to it is caused by carbon dioxide not having had enough time to escape from the shell and is especially common in fresh eggs.[1]


• Smell the egg. With time, bacteria break down the proteins in the whites of the egg and create a gas. This gas is hydrogen sulphide, better known as "rotten egg gas."

Tips:

• The floating test works because the air pocket inside the egg gets bigger with time as the egg contents lose both moisture and carbon dioxide. As the air pocket gets bigger, the egg is more likely to float.


• When a recipe calls for a lot of yolks or whites, separate the eggs in a different bowl then dump the contents with the rest of the egg yolks (or whites). There's nothing more wasteful than cracking open egg number 14 in a 15 yolk recipe and finding out that it is a bad egg. You could also test all the eggs for freshness using the floating technique.


• If you're worried about the egg being fertilized, keep in mind that most eggs come from large-scale operations where laying hens are never exposed to a rooster. If the eggs come from a smaller farm where roosters are present, there is a chance they might be fertilized, but the only way to tell is by candling (holding a light up to the egg in a dark room and looking for blood vessels, movement, and chick development). That being said, fertilized eggs are no more or less nutritious than unfertilized eggs and both are safe to eat.

Warnings:

• Do it in the sink; it is easier to clean up an egg in the sink than on the bench or floor.


• Be careful with the eggs; if you have a rotten egg and you break it, you'll have more than the egg mess to clean up. The smell is quite unpleasant.


• If you're the least bit doubtful about the egg, it's better to be safe than sorry - skip it and try another one.


• Avoid eating eggs past their expiration date. Check the date stamped on the carton or the egg itself.
  

source : http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-if-an-Egg-is-Bad

Drainage in long planters

If you have long planters, or some green areas in your balcony,roof garden or terraces you may need a drainage layer in your planter to drain or to direct the water to drainage pipes. For this purposes you may use some prefabricated drains made of a drainage layer and filtre covered around it.
Even you may use the prefabricated vertical drains (wick drains) like colbonddrain horizontally.

Drainage tips for basement floors

Do you complain about humidity and water stains in your basements?

You need a good drainage system around your house.

The best way is to use a prefabricated composite drainage material which is easy to use.

This drainage sheet has 2 specially manufactured nonwoven geotextile on both sides and a 3 dimensional core. These 3 products are thermally bonded.

You can use a product called Enkadrain which has a lot of advantages. It is easy to install, forms a ventilation layer between your home and the soil, light material so easy handling, and you will not need extra accessories.

These drains also protects your waterproofing on the walls and collects the groundwater and send it to main drain pipes. You can easily cut with wit a pair of scissors.

You will also save paying and carrying heavy gravel to your place. It is a nice product for do it yourself (diy).

In my opinion it will be good to check this system also.

Humidity in boats

One of the most important problem of the yachtsmen is condensation. They buy the boats for enjoyment but they continue fighting against condensation.
The difference between inside and outside temperatures causes condensation, especially under mattresses, bunk pads and cushions.
If you use a spacer product under the mattresses you can prevent dampness (condensation) beneath boat beds. So, the mold (odor) will also be decreased or finished.
It works like a air circulation layer. When somebody sits on it with the pumping effect the air circulates.
These spacer synthetics made of a 3 dimensional special Polyamide elastic product.
It can be easily cut to size of the cushions and matresses.
These spacer type products can be used also in basement floor of hoses where there is humidity, bars in basements, campers, caravans etc...
You can use where you may need a spacing product.
These type of products (eg. Enkaspacer) can be used in several applications.

http://geosynthetic.blogspot.com/

Gas filling tips

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load istemperature- compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal forbusinesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.
2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.
3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty),because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is andgasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as abarrier between the gas and the atmosphere, there by minimizing evaporation) .
4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery b"from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the highsetting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank b" so you're getting less gas foryour money .
Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'