Thanksgiving Travel Tips for 2014

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Thanksgiving is one of the biggest traveling times of the year. However, with a little planning and research, your travels can be headache-free. Whether you and your family are planning to drive or fly from your home in College Station, Texas to another city or state, you will want to ensure the whole trip goes smoothly. The following Thanksgiving traveling tips are sure to help. 

Research Flight Options

Many choose to forgo the family drive to grandma's house for Thanksgiving. The airlines know this well and many times raise the rates for holiday travel. Not to worry, there are several places you can go online to research airfare prices before you purchase. For example, there are sites like Expedia, Kayak, Orbitz, and Hotwire that offer visitors discounted rates on flights and even hotels and car rentals. You can also search for cheap flights on Google and Yahoo. Looking at your options can save you quite a bit from paying full from the airline or ticket counter.

Follow the Weather

If you plan to drive, be sure to keep an eye on what the weather is going to be like. If it is supposed to be freezing, iced or snowed over, you will want to get your vehicle ready for such traveling. For example, you will need to have your car winterized at your local mechanic's shop. In addition, you may need to purchase winter driving tires and possibly even snow chains depending on where you are traveling. 

Share your Itinerary

Before you head out on your Thanksgiving journey, be sure loved ones and friends know how, when and where you plan to be traveling. If you and your family are flying, you will receive an itinerary that will have any stops listed along with your departure and arrival times and dates. If you are driving, you will need to create your own. Include any possible stops and the exact route you plan to take. This way if anything were to happen, there will be a route to look for you. Winter driving conditions can easily cause a slip off the roadways. Folks knowing your travel route can help you should you become stranded or slip off the road.

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Lawn War: Proven Tips and Tricks to Win the Battle against Garden Weeds

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If you are like many homeowners, you consider your garden one of the places you can totally get lost in.

However, it is sometimes unfortunate to note that not all the time you invested in the garden has been spent tending to your precious plants or basking in the beauty of its blossoms.

Chances are, a review of time spent in your garden will reveal that a significant amount of time has been wasted doing one very tedious chore – weeding!

Fortunately, with the following strategies, you are bound to win the battle against one of your garden’s most notorious dwellers.

Chop

When you can’t find the time to thoroughly remove the weeds yet, chopping the heads off is the next best recourse you have at your disposal.

‘Deadheading’ gives you a few weeks you can use for other pursuits before the so called ‘seed rain’ begins. This is especially helpful for those who have other urgent matters to attend to rather than tend to their garden straight away.

Once the tops are cut off, the notorious garden nuisance will be forced to use up whatever food reserves they have. Once food supply has been exhausted, reseeding is dramatically reduced so spreading to other areas in the garden becomes highly limited.

Mulch

Undoubtedly, the benefits mulching offers are often ‘hard to miss’.

Apart from ensuring soil remains moist and cool, mulch can efficiently deprive weeds of the light they need to grow, spread and thrive.

In addition, organic mulches often play host to carabid beetles and crickets – two insects that often feed on weed seeds and can devour them by the thousands.

However, to effectively stop the spread of weeds, you have to do more than just pick the right mulch supplies to use.

More importantly, you need to equip yourself with the necessary skills and techniques to make the method work to your full advantage.

Case in point, it’s vital to keep in mind that ideally, mulch should be at least 2 inches deep. Otherwise, you run the risk of depriving your soil of the much needed oxygen.

In addition, it is deemed ideal to cover the surface of the soil with a light blocking cardboard sheet or newspaper so you can effortlessly set weeds way back.

Deprive

Rob weeds of their ability to thrive by depriving them of a much needed element – water.

Leave weeds thirsty by placing soaker or drop hoses beneath the mulch. This will enable thorough irrigation for your plants while leaving nearby weeds water-deprived.

While a seemingly trivial strategy, water deprivation has been known to dramatically reduce the germination of weed seeds by as much as 50 to 70 percent!

Armed with proven methods and a newfound understanding of weeds, you are sure to win any current and future skirmish with one of your garden’s most infamous invaders.

Reference: 
http://sarahtherealtor.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/lawn-and-plant-care.html
http://www.turtlenursery.com.au/mulch-supplies.html
                

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