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Backyard Gardener, Your Gardening Information with Gardening Tips

Backyard Gardener, Your Gardening Information with Gardening Tips

10 Things to Make in a Springform Pan When I asked on Twitter what kitchen tools people needed help with, Hillary spoke up quickly and said her springform pan. To be honest, I had to do some research for this post. I don’t use my springform pan that often. This is the first time I’ve written a post for something that is often stuck in the back of my cupboard, but I have a feeling I’ll be getting it out a little more often from now on. 10 Recipes to Make with a Springform Pan Cheesecake. When you’re about to remove the sides of a pringform pan, you should run a spatula or knife around the pan, between the food and pan edge. What do you use your springform pan for? 8 Tips for Stress-free Living This 7-page guide will help you create the best possible version of your life. Have you seen the rest of the series? © 2010 – 2014, Tara Ziegmont. Did you enjoy this post?

Gardening Guides Your Year Around Gardening Help and Resource The Photojojo Store! - the Most Awesome Photo Gifts and Gear for Photographers How to Grow 100 Pounds of Potatoes in 4 Square Feet | Apartment Therapy Re-Nest On many occasions, we've been tempted to grow our own potatoes. They're fairly low maintenance, can be grown in a pot or in the ground, last a fairly long time if stored properly, and can be very nutritious (high in potassium and vitamin C). Here's more incentive: according to this article, you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 sq. feet. Learn how after the jump... According to this article from the Seattle Times, potatoes planted inside a box with this method can grow up to 100 pounds of potatoes in just 4 square feet. All that is required: Lumber Seed potatoes Soil Careful attention to watering The Times' guide for building a potato growing box yields up to a 100 lbs. of potatoes in a mere 4 square feet is shown below: Plant as early as April or as late as August 1, with an approximated 3 month till harvest turnaround time. Here are some pointers from the article: Cut apart larger seed potatoes, making sure there are at least two eyes in each piece you plant.

Learn2Grow 30+ Hardly Found Actually Funny Illustrations and Few Tutorials Wanted to do something fun today. Had to do a lot of collection in order to find the best illustration that can actually are funny. Trust me there were not many who could actually meet the criteria of being funny. Anyhow, after so much effort I had to give out something so, to keep the post worthy other than couple of laughs I thought of combining it with some useful illustration tutorials. So, if the illustration don’t give you a good laugh then try to avail the opportunity to learn and create one real funny illustration of your owns. You Might Find it Interesting: Bonus – Interesting Illustration Tutorials If you are inspired what you have seen then probably you would like to learn how to master in such skill. Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon Creating Bart Simpson Vector Character in Illustrator How to Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas in Illustrator Real World Effects in Photoshop and Illustrator Create a Tiger Striped Cat with Illustrator

Bold Book Shelving Branches Naturally Along Interior Walls Want to bring a bit of nature inside, but not have to worry about watering the plants or picking up after the leaves? Well, this branched, tree-shaped bookcase might be just the thing. One hung from the wall itself, simple biscuit joints connect ever-smaller branches that spoke out from the primary limb, providing niches for books, odds and ends in the void spaces Olivier Dollé creates along the way. Abstractly, they are simply attractive organic forms, turning a blank wall into something bordering on artistic – practically, they avoid the one-size-fits all mandate of regularly-stacked shelves where each level provides an enclosed box with the same height and width as the one below it.

You Grow Girl | Gardening for the People. History of Psychology: A New Twist in the Case of Little Albert In 1920, behaviorist John Watson and his graduate student-turned-wife Rosalie Rayner conducted a conditioning experiment that everyone who’s ever taken an intro psychology course knows all too well: They taught 9-month-old Albert to fear a variety of stimuli that were seemingly innocuous to him from the start. The most famous example involved a rat. When a rat was first placed alongside Little Albert, he appeared interested and unafraid. When the researchers paired the rat with a loud noise, over time, Albert got scared. In fact, Albert would start crying at the mere sight of the rat, even though the noise was gone. Watson used this experiment to substantiate his theory that babies were blank states, and the environment was powerful in influencing them. But no one knew Little Albert’s identify or his fate… until a few years ago. According to a 2010 article in Monitor on Psychology, for seven years, Hall P. Eventually, the pieces of the puzzle came together.

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