"Why Bother with a Gutter Garden? For me, I have plenty of space to grow all the edibles I want, however, many apartment dwellers are confined to balconies, or small patios, and a collection of containers can start to look cluttery and cost a lot of money up front. Gutter gardens are a great way to take advantage of the vertical spaces around your home to grow flowers, edibles and create a stylish space divider or privacy screen without spending too much money. Oh, and the slug issue – that’s just it, there is none! Not to say this design is pest free. You’ll still have to deal with flying pests, but you can easily wrap some row cover material around the gutters to allow sunlight in, but keep the flying buggers away from your spinach. Note to self: this is great blog idea – more to come on this issue. Other gutter garden designs have suggested anchoring them on the side of your house. Although this is not a bad option, I’d rather not drills holes into my siding or worry about water...
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- Anika
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I've very competitive. Obviously I learned this from my dad because we are comparing how our tomatoes are doing. He is growing tomatoes in the ground and I"m growing them in buckets and mine are doing much better. I am determined to have better tomatoes than him this year. :-)
- Trish R
Yeah, I'm excited! Some of the tomatoes already have blooms!
- Trish R
Have you had any trouble with any kinds of pests so far?
- Derrick
No, and I haven't used anything yet for bugs. I will probably spray them with insecticidal soap once they start making fruit. I've had to chase the squirrels away several times but they haven't done any damage to the plants.
- Trish R
I've noticed that my container plants start out better than those in the ground, but they don't always end up as big (in the long run) as those in the ground. I think it might be a matter of needing more space to grow for the roots, but I'm not sure.
- Katy S
That's happened to me before, too, when I used a container that was too small. That's also why I used 5 and 10 gallon buckets this year, to make sure each plant had enough room.
- Trish R
It actually worked out for me, since I had way too many tomato plants for one person, anyway, but I would use the larger sizes (like you did) in the future.
- Katy S
I'm going to have too many tomatoes, too, but I plan to can them and make sauce and salsa. Part of the fun for me is just the challenge of growing them.
- Trish R
Excellent! I made a lot of sauces. Plus, my neighbors (who could see how many tomatoes I already had) kept gifting me with their extras so I had even more than planned. It is fun to grow them. I like to try at least one different variety each time. I've been playing with some of the heirloom varieties, lately.
- Katy S
"How many times have you discovered breaking news by logging on to Facebook and checking out your news stream? If you happen to live in an area outside of your home town, Facebook can be the second best way (RSS feeds are #1) to keep tabs of what is going on back home. Now, there is another source that will allow you to logon and see what is trending on all of Facebook. This source is called Booshaka."
- Amani
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"So far, DLNA and network-enabled sharing has been a relatively nascent feature in modern phones. While it's more than possible to send media to our phones, doing the opposite is far more difficult, if not impossible. On the Android, TwonkyMedia Server is one of the first apps to take advantage of Google's flexible development platform in such a way, turning wifi-packing handsets into portable UPnP media servers. Now with the Droid X, Motorola is looking to continue that trend. But what of the industry's other popular platforms? BlackBerry fell off the media wagon years ago, while Apple's iPhone — once one of the best media playing phones money could buy — is beginning to seem stagnant. The Droid X, meanwhile, includes 8GB of onboard memory, with another 16GB microSD card included in-box. That amounts to a whopping 24GB of media space, all shareable over the air."
- LANjackal
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"Facebook doesn't make it easy to delete your account, but a growing number of people appear to be turning to Google to find out how to do just that. Google Suggest, the drop-down box that offers suggested search query completions based on absolute and recent upticks of popularity, now guesses that if you start typing "How do I..." that you'd like to know how to quit Facebook. Note that deactivating your account, something that Facebook responds to in a pretty shocking way as well, is not the same as deleting it. Search maven Danny Sullivan noted the suggestion on Twitter this morning, but a growing number of industry watchers are talking about people deleting their Facebook accounts. Some, including at least two members of our own staff, have already done so. Google Suggest suggestions are often humorous, but the screenshot below is pretty serious stuff. "So how do you delete your Facebook account? Even that is pretty remarkable! According to the #1 search result for the query, which...
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- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
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"CarDar is an Android application for marking your parking spot, letting you wander off, and helping you find your way back again. Features * Parking history * Notes – Useful in situations that GPS is unavailable such as parking garages. * Parking meter notifications (full version) * Google map driving or walking directions. * Manually mark your parking spot if GPS is unavailable. * RADAR view (full version)"
- LANjackal
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But it is it better? CarDar is the only Android app for that purpose that I've seen an actual review of
- LANjackal
nvm, I found out about PrimoSpot: http://www.appbrain.com/app... Coverage is limited to NYC and Boston only, and it actually costs money, LOL. Rule #1 Android App Development: There must be a FREE version of your app. I'll pass, thanks
- LANjackal
"If you want to backup your emails from Gmail to the local computer, enable POP3 access in your Gmail settings and then use a desktop mail client to download a copy of all your messages from the Google cloud to the local disk. That’s easy! Windows Live Mail, Outlook and Thunderbird are some nice email clients that can automatically and easily bring your entire archive of Gmail messages offline."
- imabonehead
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