Facebook story: Tips for growing tomatoes
July 27, 2011 by admin
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He said,”I never use a sprinkler or anything like that, I used to but I don’t anymore”. By flooding his plants, it prevents water on top from burning his plants. But at 79 years old even an experienced gardener can have problems. Engelbrecht showed us one of his tomatoes that was burned, “actually the sun is burning it and it will eventually rot here on top”, he said. An easy way to make shade is to plant sunflowers near your tomatoes to protect them from the harsh afternoon sun. He says it sounds silly now, but the ground stayed cooler this year causing some plants to be less productive, but his tomato plants are a different story. He told us, “no they’re producing fine, heat does not bother tomatoes very much but big old green worms do”. One worm ate the entire top off one of his tomatoes. Another problem he has is with blight, which is a fungus, to avoid that problem, he plants his tomatoes in different spots every year. Engelbrecht and his wife Doris pick about a dozen tomatoes a day, far more than they need so they give a lot of them away. A couple of years ago they donated nearly 1,200 pounds of potatoes to the Samaritan Center. He says gardening is a lot of work, but it’s something he loves to do.
There is an old saying that “tomatoes don’t like wet feet”, but in Le-Roy Engelbrecht’s garden he says during the hot summer heat, he floods his plants. However, there is one thing he doesn’t do.
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Nice timing: Facebook debuts “Facebook for Business”
July 27, 2011 by admin
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Facebook on Tuesday debuted a step-by-step online guide aimed at helping small businesses use the social networking site. The company is billing the new webpage, found at Facebook.com/business, as an “online education center” that gives directions on such things as how to set up a profile page, create targeted ads and deals, and interact with customer feedback online.
The timing is interesting, as it comes just a week after Google began shutting off all company profiles on its Google+ social network. The search engine giant says it’s just company policy to restrict Google+ access to individual users, a stance that has inspired a good deal of controversy in recent days.
Facebook’s new business webpage does not come along with any new features — it simply puts a lot of information that may be handy for small businesses in one place. Perhaps most importantly, it serves as a nicely timed reminder that unlike Google+, Facebook encourages companies to use its service for company branding. “Facebook allows small businesses to create rich social experiences, build lasting relationships and amplify the most powerful type of marketing –- word of mouth,” a Facebook spokesperson wrote in an email Tuesday afternoon. “We created Facebook.com/business to make it even easier for people to reach these objectives and grow.”
This represents the second time in a month Facebook has followed up Google+ news with its own feature launch. Earlier in July, Facebook announced a partnership with Skype to bring video chat features within the social networking site — just one week after Google+ made waves with its own in-app video chat feature called Hangouts.
The timing of these events could certainly be coincidental, but it does look like Facebook is taking Google’s recent entry into the social networking landscape seriously — and is increasing its feature updates and user satisfaction initiatives in turn. The new competition may be stressful for Zuckerberg and company, but ultimately it’s great for consumers if both Google and Facebook continue to bring their A-games.
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