While this may sound something straight out of some fairy tale, but this actually works! Tickle, and see your tomatoes producing bumper fruits!
26.01.2024 - 22:33 / bhg.com / Cori Sears
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In case you missed it, nostalgia and cute, girly aesthetics are everywhere in home and lifestyle space this year. So it's only natural that earlier this year, Pinterest announced one of its trend predictions for 2024 is a rise in aesthetic piggy banks. That’s right—according to its search data, this year Gen Z and Millenials are putting effort into making their money a little cuter with the return of piggy banks (customized ones at that), credit card stickers, and more.
If you forgot about this classic childhood item, you aren’t alone. Most Gen Zs and millennials grew up with a piggy bank, or were at least familiar with the idea. However, as society moved toward cashless transactions, they began to fall out of favor. Parents began opening bank accounts for their kids while piggy banks collected dust on their shelves.
So what could be behind the sudden interest in 2024—when digital currency is more popular than ever? It’s likely a combination of wistful nostalgia, a steadfast love for y2k, and a desire to find fun ways to save money in an economic climate that feels particularly stressful for Gen Z and Millennials. If you’ve ever bought a fancy new water bottle in the hopes it will encourage you to drink more water or a daily planner in an effort to get on top of your procrastination—it's the same kind of idea.
Luckily, following this fun trend doesn’t need to ~break the bank~ or take a lot of time. Sure, there are lots of fancy, «high-end» piggy banks that are sure to fit your aesthetic needs, but if you really want to stay true to the theme of nostalgia and saving money this year, we recommend a more personalized route: Check out your local thrift and discount stores for affordable
While this may sound something straight out of some fairy tale, but this actually works! Tickle, and see your tomatoes producing bumper fruits!
If you’ve watched the cooking competition show Top Chef in the past decade, you’ve probably seen Kristen Kish. The Korean-born, Michigan-raised chef won her season in Seattle in 2012. Since then, she’s appeared regularly as a guest judge and, most recently, landed the role of Top Chef’s new host. Taking over for the original host, Padma Lakshmi, after 19 seasons, Kish has some big shoes to fill. But her long-running history with the hit reality series, along with starring on the celebrity cooking competition show Fast Foodies, and hosting cooking series such as Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend and Restaurants at the End of the World, for which she also serves as a producer, have her primed as a great new face of the show.
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Q: Any advice on the best way to tackle creeping buttercup without using weed killer? It’s starting to take over some of my flower beds, where it’s smothering perennials and smaller shrubs. MJ, Co Kilkenny
You can sense it in the slowly stretching evenings, the higher skies, the shifting quality of light, and the noisy chatter of birds. And you can see it in the flowering hellebores, witch-hazel and sweetly perfumed daphne, as well as the snowdrops, daffodils, cyclamen, aconites, crocuses and dwarf irises that have pushed their snouts through cold, wet soil to burst into determined, brilliant bloom.
The soil must have adequate drainage; otherwise, air may be excluded, and the more beneficial micro-organisms may be destroyed. Soils which have poor drainage are often sour and acid. It will be necessary to improve this acidity by applications of hydrated lime. Wet soils are cold ones, and this means that plant growth is severely retarded. The situation is even more critical in the northern, colder parts of the country. Waterlogged soils cause roots to rot and a combination of all these problems can produce complete failures in some gardens.
Q: Could you please recommend a good peat-free seed compost? I’ve tried a few over the last few years but haven’t had great results. I’d really like to do the right thing environmentally but am now at the point where I’m sorely tempted to go back to using a conventional peat-based compost. CF County Kerry
Sketch image from a garden planting plan recently created for a GardenAdvice client
I love growing interesting flavors in my garden and bringing them into the kitchen to cook with. That is why I added shiso to my seed list a couple of years ago. I first tried this fragrant herb in a restaurant in Western Canada (where I was also introduced to parsley root). It has a very distinct flavor and is very ornamental. Growing shiso from seed is pretty easy and if you let it go to seed in the fall, well, you won’t need to grow more next year.
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