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One of the most basic steps you can take when building your home security set-up, is the installation of garden security lighting. Garden security lighting is also one of the most effectual methods of discouraging burglars and it is one of the cheapest methods too. All in all the installation of garden security lighting is the most efficient and cost-effective method of home security.

Other outdoor security gadgets such as security cameras are much more expensive and only serve one purpose, that is the security of your home. On the other hand, garden security lighting can be used to supply a welcoming light to guide the path to your front door to your visitors or to light up your backyard if you want to sit outside or admire a particularly beautiful group of flowers. They are also good for illuminating a fountain on a pond.

Adding motion sensor lighting controls to your garden security lighting also increases its effectiveness. The passive infra red motion sensors will pick up body heat automatically and switch the light on framing the moving object in a powerful floodlight. Microwave sensors provide a similar function but work on motion. They prolong the length of time the bulb will last and reduce electrical consumption, while making sure you get light when you need it.

However, if you sit behind closed curtains in your home at night, you may not see the warning of the lights coming on. Therefore, some of these garden security lighting units have a built-in bell or buzzer which makes a sound when the light comes on. You can also have them send a signal to your main indoor alarm system control box, which will beep and let you know where the light is that was triggered (front, rear or side of the house).

Garden security lighting can also be solar powered. This makes them slightly more expensive to purchase but very much cheaper to put in and to run. Some of these lights are permanently fixed to the house's fascia boards while others are just pressed into the ground. This latter sort are ideal for garden parties that go on into the night, as long as you remember to put them back where they belong before going in.

It is a good idea to aim the motion sensors of the lights some four feet above ground level or they will be switched on by every cat that comes over your fence in the middle of the night. Likewise, you can turn down the sensitivity of the PIR or microwave sensors so that the sensors do not pick up birds like pigeons.

The lights have daylight sensors on them too so that the motion sensors only activate the light at night. Some of these sensors will still register movement in the daytime and report it back to the main unit if you want that. So, all in all, there are plenty of different alternatives when you are considering home security, but garden security lighting has to come at the top of your list, if you want an effective, reassuring home security system.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with outdoor security lights. If you are interested in Security Systems For Home Use, please click through to our site.

Gardening: Gardening Tips to Avoid Fungus During Summer

Most of us are ready to invest huge amount for landscaping and gardening to give face lift for our home. But we failed to prune when the plants needed it, and then your highly invested landscape looks terrible than ever. So this is a high time to know about the gardening tips for better maintenance of your lawn. Do follow the following gardening tips for better life of your garden: -

Gardening tips for pruning
As we discussed in the introduction, pruning plays an important role in the garden maintenance. If you commit any mistake while pruning, don’t lose your heart because it’s like a bad haircut, it is going to grow again.

Avoid watering in the evening
During summer, you may experience high humidity, which might result in lot of problems in your garden. To get your plants nice and dry, tuck them in for night. In addition to this watering in the evening may be avoided to prevent damage to the plants.

Get rid of Powdery mildew
Powdery mildew is the common fungus mostly affects your ornamental plants. This will create white film on the leaves of the plants in your garden. Even other ornamental plants such as Sand cherry and Dogwoods are also getting affected with this fungus. Efficient gardening is necessary to curtail the growth of this fungus. You can easily prevent this by spraying general fungicide in the garden centre.

Prevention of Pythium Blight
If you’re in the north and also having perennial Rye grass, then you ought to be very careful not to leave your grass wet at night. A dreadful fungus called Pythium Blight may take its upper hand, if you leave your lawn wet in the night because this fungus love to grow in high humid condition mostly, in the night.

Pythium blight can easily be seen in the early morning. You can easily appreciate the fungus on the top of the lawn as white cotton candy. You can easily notice this fungus mainly along driveways and walks, where the soil is moist. Pythium blight can easily be controlled by watering in the day at the earliest possible time.

Fire Blight
Fire Blight, yet another culprit prefers to grow well during summer than any other season. This fungus prefers to attack Pyracantha, cotoneasters, crabapple trees, and Apple trees. The presence of Fire Blight can easily be visualized once the any one of the branches of the plant turns red and dies. This Fire Blight can be prevented little by pruning the affected branch and removing it from the main plant as far as possible.

It is also important that the cut branches should be burnt since Fire Blight is contagious and also wash or dip the projected shears by using alcohol in order to prevent the spread of the deadly fungus to other parts of the branch.

Shotgun fungus
A little gem like fungus, which prefers to grow in mulch and tends to swell, has been termed as “Short gun Fungus”. This fungus can fly up to 8 feet in the air and will spatter your house with tiny brown specks and once they stick to your house or windows, they stick like glue. Most of us suspect the spiders and aliens for this tiny brown speck. You can’t prevent this fungus, but can do something by keeping the mulch loose so air can circulate inside to keep this fungus out. Although mulch is great, don’t allow them to get packed, try to remove it at least once in a year and also rake it flat as if it will look like you’ve just mulched.

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We just planted our garden last night and it's going to storm today.?

Will the garden be ok or do I need to put some tarps over it?!
but the little seeds that are only like 1/2 an inch deep wash away?

As a professional landscaper, it depends on how hard it is going to storm. If it is only going to be a normal rain with a few thunderstorms, you should be fine. On the other hand, if it is suppose to be severe enough that you have thunderstorm warnings, tornado warnings and so forth you may want to consider covering it because if it does rain too hard then the worked up ground is going to be washed out by the rain and with the seeds only being 1/2 inch in the ground it may wash them out. Depending on the circumstances, normal rain/thunderstorm, you should be fine, anything severe you may want to cover it. Either way when the storm is over go out and check the ground because if it washed out the seeds you will be able to tell by the grounds pattern for erosion. Take into consideration how dry your ground currently is as well.

Safe Passage/Parks and Rec bring you Comedy Night
Safe Passage and Moberly Parks and Recreation collaborates and brings you, Safe Passage and Moberly Parks and Recreation Comedy Night!!! March 20th at the Municipal Auditorium. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and Comedian James Johann, Rural Genious, takes the stage at 8 p.m. His presentation will be followed by live music by Next of Ken. Beer Garden and a cash bar provided by the  Moberly Eagles Club ...

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