Fashion week is always a breeding ground for fresh beauty trends, but translating the looks from the runway to every day can seem like a daunting task. From cobalt eyeliner to emerald smoky eyes, the backstage pros took more risks this season, resulting in bold and versatile trends. Depending on the occasion, the time of day or your mood, you can amp up or tone down the look to make it work for you. Find out which ten fall trends we think are the most wearable and how to recreate them at home–no professional makeup artist skills required. Do you think these trends are worth trying, or are they better left on the runway? Start the conversation in the comments below! More Ideas to Amp Up Your Fall Wardrobe: Spark Spotlight: Photo Credit: Getty Images Read Next: Are You Fall-ing For It?\ABS\Auto Blog Samurai\data\Mar y Tierra Organic Fertilizer \make it work\avatar-bpfull.jpg){kind=avatar}
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Fall officially arrived last Saturday. Here in Southern California, the season brings shorter days and slightly cooler temperatures but no dramatic change. To create the illusion of a Midwestern autumn, I exchanged the beach-themed covers on my sofa pillows for covers with Halloween themes, replaced the seashells in my “exhibit” lamp with pinecones, acorns and seed pods, and arranged gourds and squash on the mantle. I’m going back to my home in Missouri for my son’s wedding in a couple weeks. Like many of you, I’ll need to clean the gutters, winterize the outside faucets, check the weatherstripping on the doors and windows, reverse the ceiling fans and change the batteries in the smoke detectors. Hmmm. Maybe I should stay an extra day? How do you get your home ready for fall? Let us know in the comments below! More Wats to Welcome Fall: Photo Credit: iStockphoto Read Next: Templates: Beyond Carving Pumpkins By Jerri FarrisSep 24, 2012 \ABS\Auto Blog Samurai\data\Mar y Tierra Organic Fertilizer \make it work\fallhouse.jpg)
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Sometimes finding organic gardening fertilizer that is truly
organic, at a reasonable cost and that is practical to use can be a
challenge. Sometimes to find solutions, we have to look outside of the
box. There is a different form of organic gardening that takes care of
the fertilizer automatically, while reducing the amount of time and work
spent with gardening.
What I am talking about is called aquaponics. Aquaponics creates a biological ecosystem to grow your plants in that supplies natural organic fertilizer to the plants automatically. It does this by combining fish with plants. Fish are an excellent source of plant nutrients created by their wastes. These wastes are excreted directly into the water where they are easily absorbed by plants. By circulating water through a grow bed where the plant roots are, the plants get all the water and organic nutrients they need.
In return, the water is cleaned by the plants and returned to the tank to provide a healthy environment for the fish. This solves the problem of getting organic nutrients for the plants, and it solves the problem of cleaning water for the fish and disposing of their wastes. You get plants that grow faster, are healthier, and take very little work to grow. And you also get organically grown fish. This is a way to make fish farming very easy.
One of the reasons this method of growing plants is so easy is, you don't have to deal with soil. Most of the work in gardening involves soil work. But this eliminates cultivating, digging, compost, pulling weeds, watering, and fighting with slugs, snails and all the other garden pests that come with growing plants in the ground. So you will be able to focus more on actually growing plants.
These systems are easy to set up, and can be as simple as a simple fish tank and a grow bed in your living room or greenhouse. Or they can be complex systems that can cover several acres. A simple version can be as simple as attaching a grow bed to a common home aquarium. It can actually be easier than a stand alone fish tank since there is no need for a mechanical filtration system.
With this type of growing, you can grow plants with less energy and only a small fraction of the water that you would use with conventional gardening. The typical methods of dumping water on the ground is very wasteful. It is only a small amount that the plants end up using, and same with fertilizer. With aquaponics, it is a closed system and the water and nutrients are delivered directly to the plant roots, instead of making them search for it in the soil.
If you like the idea of having a garden with built in organic fertilizer, that grows plant faster and with less work, you may want to give aquaponics a try. And on top of that, you will also get organically grown fresh fish, all from the same system and resources.
What I am talking about is called aquaponics. Aquaponics creates a biological ecosystem to grow your plants in that supplies natural organic fertilizer to the plants automatically. It does this by combining fish with plants. Fish are an excellent source of plant nutrients created by their wastes. These wastes are excreted directly into the water where they are easily absorbed by plants. By circulating water through a grow bed where the plant roots are, the plants get all the water and organic nutrients they need.
In return, the water is cleaned by the plants and returned to the tank to provide a healthy environment for the fish. This solves the problem of getting organic nutrients for the plants, and it solves the problem of cleaning water for the fish and disposing of their wastes. You get plants that grow faster, are healthier, and take very little work to grow. And you also get organically grown fish. This is a way to make fish farming very easy.
One of the reasons this method of growing plants is so easy is, you don't have to deal with soil. Most of the work in gardening involves soil work. But this eliminates cultivating, digging, compost, pulling weeds, watering, and fighting with slugs, snails and all the other garden pests that come with growing plants in the ground. So you will be able to focus more on actually growing plants.
These systems are easy to set up, and can be as simple as a simple fish tank and a grow bed in your living room or greenhouse. Or they can be complex systems that can cover several acres. A simple version can be as simple as attaching a grow bed to a common home aquarium. It can actually be easier than a stand alone fish tank since there is no need for a mechanical filtration system.
With this type of growing, you can grow plants with less energy and only a small fraction of the water that you would use with conventional gardening. The typical methods of dumping water on the ground is very wasteful. It is only a small amount that the plants end up using, and same with fertilizer. With aquaponics, it is a closed system and the water and nutrients are delivered directly to the plant roots, instead of making them search for it in the soil.
If you like the idea of having a garden with built in organic fertilizer, that grows plant faster and with less work, you may want to give aquaponics a try. And on top of that, you will also get organically grown fresh fish, all from the same system and resources.
Get an aquaponics guide that will teach you everything you need to know to get your aquaponics system set up and producing organic fish and vegetables.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Philippine flower farms can use a lot of fish emulsion as natural
fertilizer. Fish emulsion has high organic nitrogen. It's a great soil
conditioner and provides bacterial food to feed the soil's microherd.
You read it right, the soil eats. The soil is actually living. There are
so many microorganisms in the soil, thousands of them, still unnamed by
science. Fish oils also give a substantial supply of beneficial soil
fungi. The fish bones also supply extra calcium.
How do you make the Fish Emulsion?
Use fresh fish scraps from the nearby market, using the juices, sauces or oils that come with these. The liquid is used to breed beneficial microbes and supply extra proteins to the emulsion. You can also use fresh seaweed, which has a lot of nitrogen. These parts are composted in a bucket with other brown matter such as sawdust and leaves. Another medium is to add molasses to the mixture build up microbes, and speed up decomposition. The brown matter molasses controls the odor and absorbs organic nitrogen from the fish. The bucket should be stirred daily to get air into the mixture. Remember air allows for better decomposition and better aerobic microbial growth. The bucket of fish should then made to rot for at least one week.
When all this is over, dilute your fish emulsion at a 1:1 to 1:5 ratio. The fish emulsion can then be used to spray on leaves and drench the soil. Whenever you spray the leaves, you let in small portions of nutrients into the plant through its leaves. Whenever you drench the soil with fish, you build up the soil's microbial activities, supplying lots of nitrogen to the roots and topsoil. What more, using fish emulsion as foliar spray helps get rid of pests too. They hate the fishy smell, no matter how minuscule. Poke holes in the soil to get more oxygen in the soil too, and further increase organic matter decomposition, while increasing the activities of microbes in the soil. Soils love their daily dose of fish meal. The earthworms too!
Don't forget that you can actually make your own homemade version of the fish emulsion for your house plants or garden. The resulting mix is as unique as every flower farm or every garden.
How do you make the Fish Emulsion?
Use fresh fish scraps from the nearby market, using the juices, sauces or oils that come with these. The liquid is used to breed beneficial microbes and supply extra proteins to the emulsion. You can also use fresh seaweed, which has a lot of nitrogen. These parts are composted in a bucket with other brown matter such as sawdust and leaves. Another medium is to add molasses to the mixture build up microbes, and speed up decomposition. The brown matter molasses controls the odor and absorbs organic nitrogen from the fish. The bucket should be stirred daily to get air into the mixture. Remember air allows for better decomposition and better aerobic microbial growth. The bucket of fish should then made to rot for at least one week.
When all this is over, dilute your fish emulsion at a 1:1 to 1:5 ratio. The fish emulsion can then be used to spray on leaves and drench the soil. Whenever you spray the leaves, you let in small portions of nutrients into the plant through its leaves. Whenever you drench the soil with fish, you build up the soil's microbial activities, supplying lots of nitrogen to the roots and topsoil. What more, using fish emulsion as foliar spray helps get rid of pests too. They hate the fishy smell, no matter how minuscule. Poke holes in the soil to get more oxygen in the soil too, and further increase organic matter decomposition, while increasing the activities of microbes in the soil. Soils love their daily dose of fish meal. The earthworms too!
Don't forget that you can actually make your own homemade version of the fish emulsion for your house plants or garden. The resulting mix is as unique as every flower farm or every garden.
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