Archive for July, 2009

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Garden Sprouts (quick posts from other sites) – July 30, 2009

Written by Jeff Non-GOTM pictures credited by hover notes – move cursor over image The Reader’s Digest provides a list of what it considers to be “10 Essential Herbs to Grow.” Each plant is described in a couple of short paragraphs detailing the use of each herb and some planting tips. Links to some recipes [...]

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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

PL8 A TUDES: Vanity License Plates – 32

Written by Jeff We continue our series of personalized (vanity) license plates in Arizona. To maintain individual privacy, we try to show as little information about particular cars as possible as long as we can reveal the license plate. NOTE – License plate photos may have been archived for quite some time. The years indicated [...]

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Sunday, July 19th, 2009

The Desert at My Door

Written by Jeff John Alcock wears many hats and while wearing each of them he seems to find a good deal of humor and obvious wonderment. On a recent day Mr. Alcock was addressing the Maricopa County, AZ Master Gardeners to discuss his front-yard desert landscape. It wasn’t always a desert landscape, but he decided [...]

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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Garden Sprouts (quick posts from other sites) – July 14, 2009

Written by Jeff Non-GOTM pictures credited by hover notes – move cursor over image Strut your gardening stuff with Park Seed’s Tempting Tomatoes Photo Contest (2009) – Check link for details http://www.parkseed.com/gardening/GP/gatepage/tempting-tomatoes-photo-contest?cid=pem001670 The University of Missouri Extension Center has a fine article describing how to build a compost bin. The article has very detailed information [...]

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Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Ads Never Die! Tag…You’re a Hit!

Written by Jeff Thanks to J-Walk [ http://j-walkblog.com/ ] for mentioning this site and alerting me to this information. Eric Swartz, a.k.a. the Tagline Guru, has compiled a list of the 100 most influential advertising taglines. As a challenge, I am presenting those top 100 taglines. See how many you can identify. One caution: When [...]

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