The Garden Shedde

When choosing your paint colors one of the best ways to go about getting what you like is to look at your favorite colors produced by nature itself. If you love blue, is it the blue of blueberry’s that make you shiver or the color of a clear blue sky? Do you love the yellow of the sunflower or is it the daisy that makes you smile? Picking colors from nature has a keen affect on our senses so it’s important to choose those that give you energy if you are painting an office or help you rest if you are painting a bedroom.

This also holds true when choosing colors for offices and conference rooms in commercial spaces. You don’t want to paint a conference room with colors that put everyone to sleep nor do you want colors that cause your staff and clients to bounce off  the walls during an important meeting! This is why it is very important to get your colors right and there are many interior designers who specialize in color theory that can help you choose the perfect colors for your home and office.

Every summer when we get together with friends this topic comes up. It’s because we all have a different way of preparing Bruchetta as well as have slightly different ingredients. No one ever complains about the other we just can’t figure out if there is a right or wrong way to make this wonderful dish.

If you are not familiar with Bruchetta it is made of tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella cheese at its core. Of course some add salt and pepper, onions and garlic and a host of other things from time to time to make it even more interesting. All this is normally served over good hearty toasted bread in slices or diced up and scoped out on the bread slices. The main thing you need to know is you can’t ruin this dish as it is flipping fantastic if you use fresh ingredients and that includes homegrown organic tomatoes. There are so many recipes online you can have a blast just looking at them all. Experiment and let me know what you think is the best. In the end, that’s all that matters anyway!

People often forget do not look at all of the wonderful options for lighting up outdoor spaces before making a decision and that could lead to some expensive and time consuming installments. This is simply because lights take some sort of electrical current to make them work and most of us think about running electrical lines out to the outdoor areas we want to add lighting to. Sometimes it’s as easy a tapping into an outdoor outlet. Other times it’s much more complicated. That’s why solar post caps are a unique and wonderful option these days.

Solar take the energy of the sun and charges tiny batteries within the light during the day that keep the light lit up in the night. These lights are not as bright as the ones that tap into the electric lines but they are very good and good for energy savings as well. You should compare solar with other types of post cap lights to see which one will work best for your area before you buy. Either way, you will love having light on the posts outside for the safety it brings as well as the fun!

This time of year always tries my patience. It is hard for me not to run out to my tomato plants on a daily basis and try to find the first ripe one to eat; after all these are the heirloom tomatoes that are so good! I know it sounds a little crazy and I just might be but there is nothing like a freshly ripened tomato out of the garden. They just taste better than the store bought variety.

Though we are getting many things out of the garden that you could say the same thing about there is something different about the tomato. Maybe it’s the potential flavor of tomatoes that makes them a different kind of fruit (yes, they are a fruit). Some of them can be tart while others are as sweet as berries. Some beckon you to eat them like an apple while others are perfect for slicing and eating on sandwiches or with your breakfast eggs. All I know is once they start to come in I will be eating them with every meal as long as they last and I can hardly wait!