Isuzu Refrigerated Box Truck

Keeping your arrangements properly chilled will extend the life of the flowers up to 75 percent, according to Iowa State University.Extend the life of your floral arrangements by refrigerating the flowers.Hold the cut end of the flower stem under warm...

Yet I know full well how wood falls apart in a gardening situation, so I will just make a plan B at that time. Then I filled the boxes with commercial planting mix, adding some of my own backyard composted soil.

After setting our plants about 18 inches apart in three long rows (which were about 2½ feet apart), we were pleased to notice the runners, or stolons that quickly emerged from the parent plants.My husband and I agreed that strawberries were awesome.

These days I can't wait until I finally get my own three wheeled Ape. As cool as my Vespa “farm truck” is, I must officially retract my previous statements, apologise and announce that the Vespa is not in fact the coolest agricultural vehicle possible.

Sound like trouble? I routinely haul sacks of concrete, bags of manure from the local dairy, lumber, pipe and assorted supplies on the scooter, (I balance things on the foot rests) so it was no surprise that my mechanical problem last year occurred one...

Make sure to remove any fruit because they should not be stored with the flowers.Place the vase with the flowers on a shelf in the refrigerator.Keep the flowers in the refrigerator for at least six hours each night.

Check that the water level in the jar is not so high that it soaks the leaves, or your cilantro may begin to wilt and rot. If you intend to store your cilantro rather than using it all immediately, be sure to keep the leaves on the stems rather than plucking...

They will become soft and may begin to sprout if you store them at 65 to 70 degrees for more than a few weeks. Put them in a perforated plastic bag to retain humidity and provide ventilation.

Match the box's size, openings or hole dimensions and habitat to the wildlife of interest. Some nest boxes are readily available, but a host of boxes can be constructed. Consider designs that transform old tires into nest structures for fox squirrels.

Alternatively, if you plant everything in, you can start them indoors earlier and switch them out to your urban window box gardens when the temperatures start to drop.If you want plants that will truly last the winter, try growingto name a few.

His truck isn't so big, but the angle to turn into my driveway is so sharp that he can't make the turn. One of the things I really like about living here in Liguria, Italy , is having lots of water features near my garden.

I chose cedar, as it holds up well outside. On Mother's Day, there are two items that will make every mother beam. If you decide to use the drill, create pocket holes before slowly driving in the screw—the wood will split if you're too hasty.

But we used it anyway.We are substitution maniacs, die-hard DIYs (Do-It-Yourselfers), so our box frames measured 4' x 4' with old plywood full of gaps attached on the bottom. Just the way I like it.

I remember a visit to Harlow Carr garden in Yorkshire which is just as wonderful in winter as it is in the height of summer. The leaves are dark shiny green, leathery and pointed and in winter the stems bear many very small white flowers almost hidden...

But hey, we all make choices.Anyway, even though I no longer live in the city, I still have a small living space, and I've been inundated with home DIY craftiness urges. Plus, if I buy some fresh produce, I swear most of it always goes bad because I haven't...

It doesn't even necessarily have to be a truck, though a truck often is preferable. If you need to bring home lumber or other supplies, what's simpler than driving them straight to the site of your project?

Keep reading to learn more about camouflaging utility boxes in the yard.you have plans to live off the grid, they're a fact of life, and they, unfortunately, aren't usually designed with aesthetics in mind.

My mother and Granny Ninna always fried chicken, usually two old hens, and they added green beans and cornbread, a lot of other vegetables, and most of the time Ninna made a stack cake for dessert.

Nasturtium thrives in even the poorest soil and features rounded foliage and colorful, trumpet-shaped flowers as it blooms often throughout the growing season. Drought tolerance is often an asset for window box plants because their containers can be difficult...

Try to keep enough air inside the bag to keep it from collapsing onto the tops of the cuttings. Step 5 Jessica Walliser Insert the bottom of the hormone-dusted cutting into the potting mix in the drawer, making sure the soil is in firm contact with the...

“Transportation laws and regulations should not saddle farmers with additional regulatory hurdles simply because they farm closer to a processor in another state than a processor in their own state,” says NFU president Roger Johnson.

If I forgot to water and ignored it and it still grew a foot, what did I have? I was warned that the summer foliage might look a little ratty, but Red Lion had no new foliage at all.

Certain plants are considered toxic for box turtles and you should never include them in the turtle's captive diet or environment.Box turtles both eat and hide in vegetation, so make sure the plants near your turtle are not toxic.Oxalate salts are irritating...

The important thing is to haul the load in the safest possible way—for yourself and those sharing the road. This adds to the traction without affecting steering, and it also improves the braking with less tendency to jackknife.

If your box is clear, cover it with duct tape, leaving a small vertical area exposed to allow you to observe the water level inside the container.Fill the yogurt cups three-fourths full with perlite.

Lenten rose is 70-40, and usually requires at least one or two months at 40 before the seeds begin breaking open. His details about what works for particular types and what doesn't have saved the rest of us much time and frustration.His books are now...

I'm Supermom, not Putter-around-the-house-with-bulbs-mom. And when I heard the familiar call from the florist aisle, "we're ba-a-ack!" I'm afraid to say it,but I succumbed. It was supposed to be for the whole family, but none of us noticed whether it...