This year I decided to plant some blueberry bushes in my backyard right up against the fence. I knew I would not get the required 6+ hours of direct sunlight, as we have a very tree friendly backyard. I figure I get about 3 or so hours of direct sunlight a day on the area I was looking to plant them. I decided to try a few different varieties and see what actually made it. We have a very sandy soil so all I did was mix in some fertiziler and get to planting. The results are that the Duke Blueberry plants thrived while the rest of the varieties did not seem to make it too well. So for me I will go out next year and fill in the spots with dead bushes with some more Duke Blueberry plants and hopefully get enough to enjoy for breakfast next year. The nice thing is with them being so close to the fence is that I can drape some netting from the fence over the bushes and hopefully keep the birds away. If not that is why there is always those places to pick your own.
Month: August 2009
I finally remembered to have my wife pick up two packets of Lemonade Kool-Aid this week to clean the dishwasher. I will admit I had not really read that much as to what to use it for. Now I realize that it is really for cleaning out deposits and stains because the citric acid works on those base type stains and deposits. Our kitchen is fairly new so I guess using this is more proactive than I originally thought. My first initial thought was that you use it to remove some of the smell from the dishwasher that builds up over time. It seems to have made our dishwasher smell nicer for sure, and probably did remove some of the deposits and stains that I had not noticed. For the price it is a good proactive treatment to keep the dishwasher running clean and smooth I would think.
After moving our phpbb3 installation from a shared hosting account to a VPS account with 1&1 all of a sudden our mail notifications were not working. We do not need a full blown mail server on our VPS so we still wanted to use the regular 1&1 SMTP servers to send out the mail for the board. After trading a few emails to 1&1 support we got it figured out. When we moved our domains over to the new VPS package we took one of our original accounts that was the account we were using for SMTP and made it a mail forward only. Once we gave that account an actually mailbox and password it worked.
Two things that are odd, one that it seems the mail does not send as quickly from the VPS package instead of the shared hosting, and the second one is that I tried to change the SMTP information in phpbb3 board to an account that had a real mailbox but it never worked. Also for some reason sending yourself test PM messages didn’t work, does the phpbb3 board know that you are sending them to yourself and then not allow you to get a notification?
Also I could never get the gmail SMTP stuff to work correctly even though I tried following what other people said.