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Easy Boost borders by filling gaps with perennials such as coneflowers, daylilies, verbena and achilleas and cut back the straggly grown delphinium, hardy geraniums and early salvias to encourage them to repeat bloom. trim leafy shoots from pyracantha to reveal the berries. Cut back the flower stems on lady's mantle if you don't want it to self-seed.

Zichermann, who is chair of the Gamification Summit slated for New York City in September, pointed out people often learn their "greatest lessons in life on the playground...the extension of this concept to digital games should come as no surprise."Anyone considering buying a beehive compost bin should double check how practical it is. There are some fantastic designs, which allow easy access. You need it to be easy, both to deposit garden waste and kitchen scraps, and to access the finished garden compost for turning and using. Some come with hinged roofs and removable front slats as well as one side which comes away completely. This really is critical. If you find it difficult to access the finished compost, chances are you are not going to continue recycling your garden and kitchen waste in this way in the future.First impressions If your front garden is looking shabby, maybe now's the time to give it a facelift. It's paramount that you Letchworth, can get from the pavement to the front door safely, so make paths wide, welcoming and non-slip when wet.Add the next onion by looping the dried leaves around the string, sliding it down to sit on the onions below. Repeat, adding onions until you have the length required but bear in mind the weight your rafters or hooks can support because the strings can get very heavy. Next, move the string to a cool spot in the kitchen, and twist them off for cooking as required. Hang extra strings in a dry shed.Good ideaThe audible crunch of a gravel path or drive can also deter a burglar. If it's necessary to build steps, they should be generous and shallow so that it is not a struggle to manoeuvre a pushchair. Rig up a handrail for safety.Now, there are lots of people making compost bins that look very much like old fashioned, wooden beehives. The design is very simple, and to be honest you really would not need an awful lot of carpentry skill to make one yourself. But, back to reality, the chances are most people who end up with one of these pretty garden composters will do so by purchasing, rather than making one.For those with less space to play with, the ugliness of most commercial and home-made garden compost bins has made finding something suitable really difficult. The beehive compost bins play into our love of an imagined ideal of rural English life. All, church spires, cricket lawns and beehives. There is something just really comforting about the traditional beehive shape.A typical American family creates about 4,320 pieces of trash and spends about $400 extra on disposable lunchware each year, according to the Lunchbox Waste Study .Remove rose leaves that are already showing the tell-tale purple- black blotch symptoms of blackspot.ECOlunchboxes is a start-up based in Lafayette, Calif. specializing in stainless steel lunchware and artisan cotton handmade lunchbags. Its lunchware is sold nationwide in natural groceries, select Whole Foods Markets, The Container Store, The North Face and other stores nationwide as well as online at www.ecolunchboxes.com .SplIt a length of pipe lagging and wrap it around the stem of a standard fuchsia to keep it stable. - Jo Coles, Letchworth, Herts

SplIt a length of pipe lagging and wrap it around the stem of a standard fuchsia to keep it stable. - Jo Coles, Letchworth, Herts

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