Archive for July, 2011
Bottom Dollar Food Lansdowne
Coming soon to Lansdowne is a new shopping center called the Lansdowne Market. One of the prime retail stores in this market will be a new Bottom Dollar Food store, currently scheduled to open on August 19th, 2011.
From the Bottom Dollar Food website, “Although Bottom Dollar Food may sound like a typical discount store, we refuse to act like one! Yes, we do have food prices that kick bottom. In fact, we have the lowest prices in town. Guaranteed! To prove it, we promise to beat any competitive like item – just see the store manager for details. But Bottom Dollar Food is much more than a pretty price.”
It looks like Bottom Dollar is run by the Delhaize Group - a food retailer headquartered in Belgium and now operating in eight countries and on three continents.
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How to build a Terrarium
You’ve reached here with the expectation of learning how to build a terrarium. Before I get to that, it’s helpful to know what a terrarium is best suited for. From our favorite encyclopedia, Wikipedia:
A terrarium can be formed to create a temperate woodland habitat, and even a jungle-like habitat. This can be created with pebbles, leaf litter and soil. By misting the terrarium, a natural water cycle occurs within the environment by condensation forming on the lid causing precipitation. Many kinds of plants are suitable for these habitats, including bromeliads, African Violets and Crassulaceae.
Here are the steps we followed to build our terrarium:
- Find a large jar with a lid and fill it with marbles, pebbles or river rock. Ideally these will be up no larger than 1/4″ and should be spread on the bottom of the jar up-to 2″ deep.
- Add a layer of sphagnum moss on top of the stones. The moss helps prevent the soil that you add from filling up the spaces between the marbles, pebbles or gravel.
- Add a 1/2″ layer of activated charcoal which will help filter the air and prevent odors and excess water build up at the bottom of the jar. From the research I did online, a lot of filters in aquariums use activated charcoals. I ended up crushing some real wood charcoal and using this.
- Add 2-3″ of soil. Depending on the size of the jar you may need more, but, in general try and use a soil that isn’t filled with fertilizers.
- Select the plant for your terrarium and pot the plant to ensure the roots are covered
- Use a mist-spray bottle to water the plant as needed or recommended
- Glass jar or vase with lid
- River rock, marbles or pebbles
- Sphagnum moss
- Activated charcoal
- Soil
- Plant
- Mist-Spray bottle