Showing posts with label automatic sprinklers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label automatic sprinklers. Show all posts

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Spring "Greening" Tips

It's finally springtime, and spring cleaning time. How about turning it into spring greening? First, the laundry. Wash only full loads, use cold water whenever possible, hand your clothes and they will be so fresh!

Second, use Hydrogen Peroxide to clean most things instead of bleach and save your lungs and the oceans.


  • Soak your toothbrushes in peroxide to keep them free from germs, use it as teeth whitening - way cheaper than other methods!


  • Clean your counter tops with it, kills germs and bacteria - same with your cutting board, keep some in a spray bottle.


  • Soak any infections or fungus on your body in it


  • A cup of peroxide in laundry keeps it white and bright


  • It cleans mirrors streak free!

Third, plant your garden with organic seeds and soil, and plant food. You can follow my son Jesse Grimes' adventures in his garden in Dana Point. He calls it the Trailer Trash Gardener at: http://jessebythesea.blogspot.com/ He is planting an organic garden in his yard at his mobile home, proving you can reap lots of food in a tiny space.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Water Conservation in the Rain?


It sure seems ironic that the Diemer Filtration Plant in Yorba Linda is performing maintenance this week and is asking South OC residents to conserve water in the midst of all the downpours we have been experiencing. Nevertheless, from Jan 25-31, residents are asked to turn off their automatic sprinklers, and refrain from watering landscaping. These and other Water Conservation Tips can be found at: www.autotaps.com/water-conservation-tips.html

Last Thursday I drove to Phoenix, and saw washes that I have never seen rushing with water, and every depression in the land was filled in with water. It was so twilight zone, as I lived there for 17 years and never saw that!

I am glad the heavens have poured open and given us the precious water we have needed.