| How to Grow Tulips in Pots Posted: 11 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST Tulips make for a beautiful indoor or outdoor potted plant that can bloom yearly if planted and cared for correctly. To grow tulips in pots, you'll need the right pot, soil, and approach. Because tulips need to be dormant for 12-16 weeks before they can bloom, you'll need to expose them to cool temperatures to replicate the weather in the fall. If done properly, your tulips will bloom in the spring or summer and can make a beautiful addition to your decor. EditPlanting Tulip Bulbs - Use a pot that's at least in diameter with drainage holes. Your pot should be anywhere from deep. It's important that the pot you get has drainage holes in it. Larger pots will be able to hold more tulip bulbs, which will create a fuller pot of flowers. You can purchase plastic, ceramic, or terracotta pots to plant tulips.[1]
- A pot can hold anywhere from 2-9 tulip bulbs.
- A pot that is in diameter will be able to hold approximately 25 medium-sized tulip bulbs.
- Drainage holes are important so that water doesn't pool on the bottom of the pot and rot the bulbs.
- Fill the pot halfway with a perlite and vermiculite potting mix. Purchase a porous, fast-draining soil from a home and gardening store or online. Perlite and vermiculite potting mixtures are great mediums for tulips. Work outside and carefully pour the bag of potting mix into the pot.[2]
- Potting soil is often better than the soil you can get in your yard or garden because it will retain moisture better, it's filled with nutrients that promote growth, and it will have better drainage.
- Push the bulbs into the soil, spacing the bulbs apart. Place the bulbs up against the inside edge of the pot first, then move your way towards the center of the pot. Push the flat side of the bulbs deep enough into the soil to hold them in place.[3]
- The pointed end of the bulb should be facing up.
- Planting more bulbs will result in more flowers, but it will increase the competition for nutrients and water. If you're crowding the bulbs, be sure to water and apply fertilizer regularly.
- Cover the bulbs with of soil. Use the same potting soil that you used before to completely cover the bulbs. If you are putting the pots in an area that may be open to animals like squirrels, you can attach a wire grid over the top of the pots to prevent them from eating the bulbs before the tulips bloom.[4]
- Consider adding additional bulbs for a layered effect. If you want your tulips to be different heights, or just want more tulips in your pots, you can layer bulbs on top of each other. To do this, simply cover the top layer of bulbs with of soil, then plant another layer of bulbs above the first layer before covering them with potting soil. When the bulbs bloom, they will fill up the entire pot.
- Cover the top layer of bulbs with of soil.
- You can plant the second layer of bulbs directly over the first layer.
- Water the soil once the bulbs are planted. Water the soil thoroughly once you have planted the bulbs. Excess water should drain out of the drainage holes on the bottom of your pot.[5]
- If you are keeping the bulbs inside you'll have to water them approximately 2-3 times per week.
- If you are keeping the bulbs outside and there is regular rainfall, you don't have to water them. If there is a drought, water them 2-3 times per week.
- Leave the bulbs in a cool area for 12-16 weeks. Leave the pots in a spare refrigerator or a cellar that maintains a temperature of . Tulips need to go through their dormancy phase in order to bloom in the spring. In order for this to happen, they must be exposed to colder temperatures.[6]
- Keep the bulbs in a place with consistent temperatures without risk of freezing and thawing. Temperature changes will cause the bulb to rot.
- If you are keeping the pots outside, it's best to plant the bulbs when the temperature outside is .
- If you purchased bulbs that are pre-chilled, you can skip this step.
- Move the tulips to an area that's at least . After the tulips go through the dormancy phase, they will bloom if given the proper conditions. If you're keeping the tulips inside, move them next to a window or another area that gets sunlight. If you're moving the pots outside, make sure that the temperature has warmed up to at least .[7]
- If it's and you are keeping your tulips outside, put the pots under a shaded area like under a tree or awning.
- Wait 1-3 weeks for your tulips to start blooming. Tulips should start blooming when the outside temperatures reach . Different species of tulips bloom at different times a year, so read the packaging on the bulbs you've purchased so you can plant them accordingly.[8]
- Double early, fosteriana, kaufmanniana, greigii, and single early tulips will typically bloom earlier in the year.
- Darwin hybrid, fringed, triumph, and lily flowered tulips are mid-season bloomers.
- Parrot, single Late, viridiflora and double late bloom later in the season.[9]
EditCaring for Tulips - Water the tulips when the top of soil is dry. You'll want to water the soil regularly to make sure that it's moist, but not soggy. To check this, occasionally poke your finger into the soil and water the soil if it's dry.[10]
- If you are keeping the pots outside, only water the bulbs if it doesn't rain for over a week.
- Continue watering the bulbs during the dormancy phase.
- Keep the tulips in an area that gets sunlight for at least 6 hours a day. Tulips need sunlight but don't do well in extremely high temperatures. For this reason, keep them out of direct sunlight during the spring and summer. If you're keeping the tulips inside, place them next to a window so that they can get enough sun every day.[11]
- You can keep your pots under the partial shade of a tree or under an awning to keep them out of direct sunlight.
- The soil in a pot will often get hotter than the soil in a yard or garden.
- Avoid using dark-colored pots, since they will absorb the sunlight and increase the soil temperature.
- Remove any fallen petals or leaves from the pot. Let the petals and leaves on the tulips turn yellow for 6 weeks before plucking them from the flower. If the petals or leaves fall off, remove them from the pot to prevent rot to the rest of the bulb.[12]
- Removing dead petals will encourage the tulips to bloom again the next year.
- Discard any tulips that develop diseases or are infested with pests. If the tulips are stunted in growth or exhibit brown or yellow patches over them, it's likely they have a disease or may be infested with pests like nematodes. To prevent the disease from spreading, dig up the bulbs of any tulips that exhibit these signs of sickness and throw them away.[13]
- Prevent squirrels and other animals from eating your tulips by keeping them indoors, putting a wire mesh over the soil, or fencing them in.
- Common tulip diseases include basal rot, root rot, and tulip fire, a fungal disease.
- Do not plant tulip bulbs that have white fungus on them, because it can spread and hurt the rest of the tulips in your pot.
- Bring the tulips inside if the temperature goes below freezing. If the temperature dips below (), it could freeze the soil in your pot and kill your tulips for good. To avoid this, transport the tulips to a room that maintains a temperature of , such as the garage or basement.[14]
- You can bring the tulips back outside in the late fall or early spring of the next year.
- Replace the potting soil in the pots every year. Dig up the tulip bulbs with a garden spade carefully, making sure not to damage the bulbs. Then, empty out your pots and replace the old potting soil with new soil. This will give bulbs nutrients, will promote growth, and increase the chances of the tulips reblooming the next growing season.[15]
- If you are removing your bulbs off-season, store them in a cool and dark place, like a refrigerator, until you're ready to plant them.
- Use a quality potting mix with compost and fertilize it throughout the year if you don't want to replace the soil every year. All you have to do is top dress the soil with compost just before the growing season.
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| How to Make Apple Juice Posted: 10 Jan 2019 04:00 PM PST If you have an abundance of apples and are looking for ways to use them up, make apple juice. Cut ripe apples and cook them with water on the stove until they're soft. Then strain this mixture through a sieve to remove the juice. To make a smaller batch, blend raw apples with a little water and then strain the puree to get fresh apple juice. EditIngredients EditStovetop Apple Juice[1] - 18 apples
- Water to cover
- Sugar or honey to sweeten, optional
Makes of juice EditBlended Apple Juice[2] - 4 apples
- cold water
- Sugar or honey to sweeten, optional
Makes of juice EditMaking Apple Juice on the Stove - Rinse 18 apples. Since you'll be leaving the peels on the apples, choose organic apples or apples that haven't been sprayed with pesticide. Select your favorite type of apple or use a mix of:
- Gala
- Rome
- Fuji
- Honeycrisp
- Pink Lady
- Cut the apples into slices. Use a knife and cutting board to slice each apple into about 8 pieces. If you prefer, cut the apples with an apple segmenter that will remove the core at the same time.
- There's no need to remove the cores, seeds, or peels since you'll be straining it all out.
- Put the apples in a pot and cover them with of water. Place the apple slices along with any cores into a large pot and put it on the stove. Pour in enough water to come 2 in (5 cm) up the side of the pot.
- If you pour in too much water, you'll dilute the juice.
- Cover and simmer the apples for 20 to 25 minutes. Turn the burner to medium-high so the water begins to boil. Reduce the heat to medium and put the lid on the pot. Let the apples simmer until they become very soft.
- Remove the lid and stir the apples occasionally to ensure they cook evenly.
- Place a fine mesh strainer over a bowl or pitcher. If you'd like to filter the juice, lay a coffee filter or piece of cheesecloth in the strainer. Ensure the bowl is large enough to hold all of the apple juice.
- Drain the apple juice through the strainer. Turn off the burner and spoon or ladle the apple mixture with juice into the strainer. Use a spoon to gently push down on the cooked apples so more juice drips into the bowl.
- Cool and taste the apple juice. Leave the juice in the bowl to cool to room temperature and then taste it. If you'd like the juice to be sweeter, stir in a little sugar or honey. If the juice tastes too strong, pour in a little water to dilute it to your liking.
- Refrigerate the apple juice for up to 1 week. Pour the apple juice into an airtight container and keep it in the refrigerator. For longer storage, freeze the apple juice for up to 6 months.
EditBlending Raw Apple Juice - Rinse and cut 4 apples into quarters. Set the clean apples on a cutting board and remove the cores and seeds. You can leave the peels on the apples. Then cut each apple into 4 equal sized pieces.
- Use your favorite apples or try a mix of Gala, Fuji, Ambrosia, Honeycrisp, or Pink Lady.
- Put the apples and of cold water into a blender. If you don't have a high-speed blender, put the apples and water into a food processor. Put the lid on the blender or food processor.
- Turn the blender to low speed before increasing to high. Give the blender blades a chance to grab the chopped apples before you slowly turn the speed to high.
- Blend the apples for 45 seconds on high speed. If your blender has a tamper, use it to push the apples down towards the blades at the bottom. If it doesn't, turn off your blender once or twice and use a long spoon to push the apples down.
- The apples should be completely pureed.
- Drain the apple juice through a fine mesh strainer. Set a fine mesh strainer over a bowl and spoon the pureed apple with juice into it. Let the juice drain through the strainer for about 10 minutes.
- You may need to stir the puree a little to release pockets of the juice.
- If you'd like to filter the juice, line the strainer with cheesecloth before you strain the apples. Then you can lift up and squeeze the cheesecloth to release the juice.
- Serve the apple juice immediately. Pour the juice into a glass and taste it. If the juice isn't as sweet as you'd like, stir in a little honey or sugar. Enjoy the juice right away or cover and refrigerate it for up to 1 week.
- If you'd like to double or triple the batch so you can preserve it, can the juice and store it for 6 to 9 months. You can also freeze the juice in an airtight container for up to 6 months.
EditThings You'll Need EditStovetop Apple Juice - Knife and cutting board or apple segmenter
- Large pot with lid
- Spoon
- Bowl
- Fine mesh strainer
- Cheesecloth or coffee filter
EditBlended Apple Juice - High-speed blender or food processor
- Knife and cutting board
- Vegetable peeler
- Bowl
- Fine mesh strainer
- Cheesecloth
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| How to Build a Memory Palace Posted: 10 Jan 2019 08:00 AM PST One of the most useful memory aids was created thousands of years ago by the ancient Greeks. And the memory palace, a place in your mind where you can store information that you need to remember, is still relevant today. It's used not only by world record-holding memory champions but also by famous detective Sherlock Holmes. With a little planning and practice, you can build a memory palace, too. EditPlanning Your Palace - Choose a place you can easily visualize as the blueprint for your palace. A memory palace must be a place or route that you are incredibly familiar with, like your childhood home or even your daily commute to work. It can be as small as your closet or as large as your entire neighborhood. The important thing is that you're able to visualize the place in your head without actually seeing it in real life.[1]
- Other options for memory palace locations include school, church, work, a vacation spot you visit frequently, or a friend's house.
- The larger or more detailed the real place is, the more information you can store in the corresponding mental space.
- Walk through your palace to define a route. Decide how you'll travel through the palace in your mind rather than just picturing a fixed place. For example, instead of just imagining your house, imagine how you'd walk through it. Do you enter through the front door? What hallway do you walk down? What rooms do you go to? If you need to remember things in a certain order, follow a specific route through your palace, both in the real world and in your mind.[2]
- Beginning to practice your route now will make it easier to memorize later on, too.
- Identify specific locations in the palace to store your information. Think about exactly what you're going to be putting in your memory palace, whether it's a number, name, or important dates you need to remember for an exam. You'll store each piece of data in a separate location so you need to identify as many locations as you have data. Each storage spot needs to be unique so that you don't accidentally mistake one spot for another.[3]
- If your palace itself is a route, like your drive to work, choose landmarks along the way. Some examples include your neighbor's house, a traffic light, a statue, or a building.
- If your palace is a structure, consider separating information in different rooms. Then, within each room, identify smaller locations like paintings, pieces of furniture, or decor.
- Practice visualizing your finished palace by physically drawing it. On a piece of paper, sketch your memory palace or, if it's a route, map it out. Mark the landmarks or storage locations you've chosen. Close your eyes and try visualizing the palace in your head. Then check your mental image against the drawing to make sure you have remembered every location and that you've put them in the correct order.[4]
- Picture the landmarks in as much detail as possible. Make sure your mental image includes their colors, sizes, smells, and any other defining characteristics.
- If your mental image doesn't match your drawing, review the drawing a few more times and then try again. Repeat until you can visualize it perfectly.
- Another option to practice visualizing your palace is to recite it to a friend. Walk them through the route verbally while they look at the map you drew to compare.
EditFilling Your Palace with Information - Place important information in small chunks around the palace. Put a manageable amount of information in each spot. Don't put too much information in any one place or it will be overwhelming for your brain to try to remember it all. If certain things must be kept separate from others, put them in distinctly different places.
- If necessary, place things along your route in the order in which you need to remember them.
- If your palace is your house, and you are trying to remember a speech, you might place the first few sentences on your doormat and the next few in the keyhole of your door.
- Put your best friend's address in the mailbox outside or on an envelope on the kitchen table. Put their phone number on the couch where you always take their phone calls.
- If you're trying to remember U.S. presidents in order, make the washing machine George Washington. Walk further into the laundry room and find a pair of long johns, which represent John Adams.
- Use simple images to symbolize complicated phrases or numbers. You don't need to put a whole string of words or numbers in a given location to be able to remember it. All you need to store in each spot is something that will jog your memory and lead you to the actual idea you're trying to remember.[5] For example, if you're trying to remember a ship, picture an anchor on your couch. If the ship is the U.S.S. Wisconsin, picture the anchor made out of cheese.
- Symbols are shorthand and more effective than picturing the actual thing you are trying to remember.
- Don't make your symbols too abstract. If they don't have an obvious correlation to what you're memorizing, it defeats the purpose. You won't be able to make the connection between the symbol and the information.
- Add people, emotional triggers, or bizarre images to remember data. The images you put in your palace should be as memorable as possible. Generally, images will be more memorable if they are out of the ordinary or attached to some strong emotion or personal experience.[6] You might picture your mom placing her Social Security number on the kitchen table or an adorable puppy eating from a bowl that has your vocabulary test words on it.
- Another example uses the number 124, which isn't memorable. But an image of a spear shaped like the number 1 going through a swan (which looks like the number 2) and splitting the swan into 4 pieces is. It's disturbing, but that's what makes it stick in your mind.
- You don't have to use only positive images. Negative emotions or images, like including a politician you hate, are just as strong.
- Incorporate other mnemonics to recall longer strings of information. Create a simple mnemonic by forming an acronym using the first letters of the words in a phrase or make a little rhyme containing the information you're trying to remember. Then insert these new shortened pieces of data into your memory palace instead of the longer piece.[7]
- For instance, say you need to recall the order of notes on the lines of the treble clef (EGBDF). Imagine a little boy eating a piece of chocolate fudge, which would evoke the first-letter mnemonic "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge."
- A rhyming mnemonic is, "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Envision Columbus holding a blue sailboat toy in your living room.
EditUsing Memory Palaces - Spend at least 15 minutes exploring your palace every day. The more you walk through and spend time in your palace, the more easily you will recall its contents on demand. You want the visualization to feel effortless and natural. Try to walk through the entire route a couple of times or block out a chunk of time each day to visualize the palace from start to finish.[8]
- For example, see James Joyce sitting on your toilet as if he belongs there and really is an integral part of your bathroom décor instead of an imagined image. This helps you remember that James Joyce was the author known for his toilet humor.
- The best part is you can practice this anywhere, anytime. All you have to do is close your eyes.
- Recall information by walking through your palace or looking around it. Once you have memorized the contents of your palace remember them simply by following the route or visualizing a room. With practice you will be able to start anywhere in your palace or along your route to recall a specific piece of information.[9]
- If you need to remember that your girlfriend's birthday is March 16, simply go into your bedroom and see the soldiers "marching" on the bed to the tune of the 80s cult classic "Sixteen Candles."
- Clean up your memory palace when you need to update data. A memory palace can be reused over and over again. Simply replace the existing contents with new information. After a few practice runs, you'll soon forget the old data and only remember the new data in its place.[10]
- If your palace is becoming too large or contains information you no longer need, remove that data from the route.
- Build new palaces for different topics and information. If you have something new you'd like to commit to memory, but you don't want to erase your current memory palace, simply build a new one. File the old palace away and start the process all over again, choosing a different place to use as your palace. Memory palaces will last as long as you want them to once they're stored in your brain.[11]
- For example, you might have your house store the names of all the U.S. presidents. Then, your walk to work contains the phone numbers of your friends and family. And your office itself has the contents of the speech you're giving tomorrow.
- There's no limit to how many memory palaces you can build.
- Be persistent. The memory palace is a very powerful tool, but isn't necessarily easy to master.
- There are books and memory-enhancement products available to help you learn how to build a memory palace. They can be costly, however, and not effective for everyone. Practice the steps above to save yourself some money.
- At the World Memory Championship, top competitors memorize the order of 20 shuffled decks of cards in an hour and more than 500 random digits in 15 minutes, among other events. They don't have "better memories" than the rest of us. Instead, they learn and perfect a variety of mnemonics (memory aids) to improve their ability to quickly learn and recall just about anything.
- With computers, there are easy ways to build your own virtual palaces or simply choose from many of the other creations already online and take a virtual tour of them whenever you like. The impact is somewhat stronger than a drawing which makes the imprint into your mind quite effortless.
- There are many variations of the memory palace, such as the Roman Room and the Journey. They are all based on the Method of Loci, which which says that people are very good at remembering locations, and if you can associate abstract or unfamiliar ideas with a well-known location, you can more easily recall the things you want to.
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