The termites should go to the cardboard and stay away from the wood you are using, and the boric acid or borax will kill them. Also, you can treat the wood you are using for the raised beds with a sodium borate such as BoraCare. BoraCare is available online at .

Q: I recently was bitten by chiggers. I probably got them from cleaning the chicken coop. I have nine chickens and usually pick up their droppings every day, but recently, I’ve been hosing part of the coop that has wooden floors. The other part of the coop is a sand-like soil that I rake almost every day. This is where the chicken food and water and food scraps are located.

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Design student Peter Kraft from Germany has come up with a concept of expanding light bulbs. Titled Growing Lampshades, the installation of lights is inspired by the natural way light illuminates the darkness.

Kraft explained that when natural light changes the darkness, it happens as a gradual visual process, not suddenly like an electric light does. This gradual process was what Kraft set out to imitate by creating lamps that are expanded and distorted by a heating element inside the bulb, creating spectacular shapes and light games.

The bulbs are made of PET plastic and each bulb can be extended only once.

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Experience the world’s most comprehensive selection of home furnishings products at the High Point Market Week, North Carolina USA, on October 13 – 18, 2012.

The week that shape the world of home furnishings. With over 2,000 suppliers presenting tens of thousands of new products debuts, High Point Market offer you more merchandise in more categories and styles that any other home furnishings trade show.

With breathtaking products to engage and inspire you, High Point Market is the legendary destination for home furnishings related industry insiders from around the globe. Its truly one week home furnishings market where fashion and function combine for a singular and memorable shopping experiences.

Join with leading manufacturers, retailers, designers and consultants to share ideas and set the course of business for our global industry. Lea

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Here are 5 more ideas (besides re-seeding and over-seeding grassy ares) that you can do very quickly.

1) Clean out a container, a raised bed, or anything you didnt quite get to last year.  Its all dead it comes away with the quickest of swipes.  Leave your garden gloves by the door so you are ready to go and you wont have to wash up afterwards.

2) Turn the compost heap I like to do this when I am just back from a walk with the dog, or yogaI am already needing a little shower, I am all warmed up why not add 5 more minutes of physical exercise.

3) Prune something pick the thing that most recently finished blooming, odds are it is a good time to prune it.

4) Pick a Bouquet You know whatever is blooming.

5) Clean the ashes out of the firepit or fire bowl.and if you only have a grill.clean the grill.  It

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With 35 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday, unofficial returns showed the amendment passing with about 58 percent of the vote to 42 percent against.

In the final days before the vote, members of President Barack Obama’s cabinet expressed support for gay marriage and former President Bill Clinton recorded phone messages urging voters to reject the amendment. Opponents also held marches, ran TV ads and gave speeches, including one by Jay Bakker, son of televangelists Jim Bakker and the late Tammy Faye Bakker.

Meanwhile, supporters had run their own ad campaigns and church leaders urged Sunday congregations to vote for the amendment. The Rev. B

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COTTAGE N°1 by De Castelli is complete re-thinking of the classical cottage-box shape garden shed that you’ll find in many gardens. Most of those aren’t an element that perfectly fits in a gardens design. COTTAGE N°1 changes all that with attention to constructive details, functionality and easthetic impact.

These efforts by De Castelli’s internal Research & Develop department have now resulted in a Wallpaper* Design Award for 2012. W

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The finches and the Bewick’s wren and the local robins are singing, and right on time, here comes the rhythm section, that rataplan rapping on the street-side power pole: a downy woodpecker. We have Nuttall’s woodpeckers and red-shafted flickers in our neighborhood sometimes, too. Other Bay Area places also welcome hairy and acorn woodpeckers, and, in winter, red-breasted sapsuckers. California is a hotbed of woodpecker diversity: 11 species in the northern Sierra alone, a couple more in the desert.

Lacking the vocal sophistication of songbirds, woodpeckers drum to get the attention of rivals and potential mates. The drum, chosen for its acoustic quality, may be a hollow tree trunk, telephone pole, stovepipe, rain gutter, cast-iron camp stove.

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According to the designer the Ondule Chair was actually inspired by digital data (and has no connection to a human brain).

They say that this chair looks usual only from the first sight because the odd quilted pattern gives it an undulating surface that makes it appear as it if is constantly moving.

What a comfortable and stylish seat!

When a fashion does become retro it usually is done with a contemporary re-visioning, instead of a reusing of the same old ideas in the same old way. At some point, someone decided it was a good idea to move sleeping from the ground and invest in a slightly more comfortable style of rest. The Egyptians are credited with first embracing the concept of the bed, as we know it today.

There are many types of beds that linger in our, sometimes distant, memory. They

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In the meantime, I heard a story today on the radio that I want to quickly mention There is a lead in the 20+ year old unsolved mystery of the biggest art heist (ever?) in Boston.  The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (my favorite!)  had 13 (I think) paintings stolen and the case has been cold for 20+ years until today, when suddenly, now, a new lead has developed related to some mafia guy in Connecticut!  Fingers crossed for getting those paintings back (btw, they are valued at 500 million yes half a billion dollars).  Go FBI!

Anyway that lead me to remembering to tell you about the Gardners annual nasturtium display that is on right now.  It is an extraordinary thing a feet (pun intended) of horticultural prowess.   Nasturtiums are grown to great lengths so that at the height of their bloom they can be carefully installed in the beautiful courtyard of the museum so that they can dangle in all their glory.  Its a must see.

Add Gobo to the list of my other favorite plants with a wild and uncultivated background. They include lambsquarters, chickweed, stinging nettles, dandelions, and now burdock.

A Few Unknowns when it Comes to Cultivating Edible Burdock

From what I can tell gobo is very similar to, but a little different than the familiar wild burdock. I’m not positive how much difference there is between the wild plant and the cultivated variety, or whether it’s actually the same plant and it just grows differently when planted in fertile garden soils.

I do know that gobo is very easy to grow and will yield a productive fall harvest from a spring planting. It

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Outdoor living is becoming more and more important in everyday life. As result, outdoor furniture, more specifically in the garden and on the terrace, is becoming one of the important things in design. Manutti believe, to be innovative, both in terms of design and the use of exclusive materials, had setting a new trend in a subtle way. The rich lines, inspired by contemporary architecture, can easily be integrated within an existing arrangement of your interior design.

Inspired by New York City (NYC) that well known for its bistros, cafés, restaurants and clubs which ranging from the simple to the very chic, the New York outdoor furniture design offer you a new square club seats represent simplicity, class and pure lines. They breathe like New York.

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From rugs to chairs, the idea of patterning a piece of furniture after something natural like a stone is nothing new but you can take it to new levels with this kind of radical dedication.

For sale at LolaHome, the idea is to not just make a couch, beanbag or pillow, but that you could scatter around in-between sizes to fit the nooks and crannies around these core pieces.

You then end up with something like a living room rock garden that encourages playful interactions and constant rearrangement, which could work great for kids rooms or minimalist settings alike.

The two-year renovation of one of the pearls of modernist architecture, Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, was completed at the end of February. The villa remains as one of the most important European works of the world-acclaimed German architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969).

Built in 1930, the villa was declared an UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994. Its current owner, the city of Brno, began an extensive renovation project in 2010, which has resulted in the villa being as close to its original appearance as possible, enabling visitors to take a step back in history.

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You can get more definite information about the break in and relevant terrorist activities and threats using the law enforcement backup. Cameras will be your eyes to scan and fight the crime occurring on everyday basis. You cannot just get through infringement without action once captured on security cameras.

There are no strong results to indicate terrorist control using the cameras, but local law enforcement team has used the gadgets extensively. In a recent incident, Vancouver police could prosecute miscreants and rioters who did loot electronics and some pricey items from a retail store.

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