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Garden for Free Part II – Papaya
Consider growing papaya right in your back yard and spend nothing more than the cost of a single fruit. In my original blog, gardening for free (part 1), I covered the basics of gardening from kitchen scraps, propagating and harvesting seeds from season to season. Papaya are beautiful tropical plants that can produce fruit when grown in containers, which will then be moved indoors before the first freeze. How to Grow Papaya from Seed To grow papaya, you will need to buy one whole papaya fruit that has not been refrigerated. Refrigeration will stop the seed from being able to sprout. When you are ready to plant, and only when…
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Discount Travel on WOW Air – the good, the bad and the ugly
Our Trip Traveling as a family can get expensive but there are ways to reign in your budget. This summer my family embarked on a three week European vacation. This trip included our two daughters, 12 and 14, as well as, my mom who has recently retired. We wanted to see as much as possible without spending a fortune. We planned this trip to coincide with my husband’s July work trip to Cologne, Germany. This meant it would just be us girls for the trek over and back. My daughters busy summer schedules complicated the travel planning because we had to wait until last minute to book our plane tickets. …
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Croatia, an affordable, friendly paradise!
It seems like Croatia has gotten a lot of attention this summer, from making it to the world cup finals, to the shooting locale for the much atticipated movie, Mama Mia 2 (loved it). My family got to visit this beautiful country last month and really fell in love with this place. The people of Croatia are kind and welcoming, so much so, that you almost forget you are a long way from the US. There are few difficulties in planning a trip here, like say laungage or being able to find information online. We stayed in Opatija, which is in northwest Croaita. It has the most stunning landscapes and…