Showing posts with label Do you know how to?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Do you know how to?. Show all posts

6/24/2007

How to take care of pot plants

by Alexsandra Ferreira Dias

Pot plants are a great way to give life to a small house or a flat but they need some care. If you follow theses steps, your pot plant can be very beautiful.
Step 1: Look for a place where the pot plant can feel the rays of the morning sun and put the pot plant there;
Step 2: Put a tray under the pot plant for protection and put water on the plant. Be careful! If you put a lot of water on the plant, you will drown the plant.
Step 3: Watch the appearance of the pot plant and if you see some dry leaves, take them off.
Step 4: Put water every three days.
Tip:
Put some sand on the tray around the pot plant, so as to avoid a water pool around the plant. This tip helps us prevent the Dengue mosquito.

How to make a fast and yummy lemon pie

by Gisele de Sá Correa

Step 1 – Take all the ingredients:
- 2 packets of Maria’s cookie
- 3 spoons of butter
- 2 boxes of Condensed Milk
- Natural lemon juice
Step 2 – Put the cookies on the blender to grind, until you obtain cookie flour.
Step 3 – Put the cookie flour on Pyrex and add 3 spoons of butter. Crumble to form a mass.
Step 4 – Put the mass in the oven for 5 min.
Step 5 – Add 2 boxes of Condensed Milk and natural lemon juice in the blender, let it mix for 5 minutes, until you obtain a consistent mousse.
Step 6 – Remove the Pyrex from the oven and put the mousse under the mass.
Step 7 – Put the Lemon Pie in the refrigerator for one hour.
Step 8 – Now you can savor your fast and yummy Lemon Pie.

How New York works

by Marcela Gadea

This text is really good. After I read it, I fell comfortable to go to New York whenever I want, because now I know a lot more about the city. They wrote the text really carefully, giving us all the details about the Big Apple, such as the best places to stay,
the best places to visit, the best places to go shopping.
So, if you want to go to New York and you do not know about the city you should read this text.

How to take care of a carnivorous plant

by Elaine Aparecida Queiroz

The Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is the most common carnivorous plant, probably for its looks (it's got some traps that look like jaws) and because it makes feeding bugs a real show. However, it requires some special attention, for it is a very special kind of plant. Here are some steps for taking care of your little monster:
Step one: Buy a Venus Flytrap that does not look damaged, without a flower and whose traps are opened.
Step two: Add some sphagnum to the top to keep the soil moist.
Step three: Put a small dish under the vase and add some distilled water (or rain water) to it. Keep the dish always full because these plants are big fans of humidity.
Step four: Let it get some sunshine! It just loves it!
Step five: If your plant is not getting bugs on its own, feed it! You can catch some bugs by placing a transparent plastic bag over the bugs, very carefully, so they won’t notice it. Give it one or two living bugs weekly. If you can't give them alive, place the dead bug over a trap and simulate it is moving using a toothpick very carefully. The trap won't close for a still bug.

Tips and Warnings:
-- Buying a Venus Flytrap, or any other carnivorous plant as well, can be a little hard specially if you live in a small city. Many plant shops treat them like a regular plant, selling you an already damaged plant. The best option is to buy it from the Internet; there are some online shops specialized on this kind of plant which delivers it at your home.
-- Do not feed it meat or any other food. Remember it is a plant and feeds only on insects and arachnids.
-- Making the jaws close just for fun is not funny at all to your Venus flytrap! Reopening the traps takes too much energy away, which your plant did not get from any bug, and the plant gets weaker.
-- Do not add any kind of fertilizer to the soil; these plants are used to nitrogen-poor soils and that's why they feed on bugs. Mineral water and water from your sink, that contains chlorine, are bad too.
-- When winter comes, the Venus flytrap have a dormency period. The traps will stay closed as if the plant is resting. After this, a long stem might start growing up to become a flower. Cut it off before the flower is formed or the plant will lose lots of energy for keeping it and the traps won't work anymore.

How to meet a celebrity and not act like a fool



The steps I read about the title above are very clear and they allow us to know exactly what to do and what not to do in front of a famous person.
In order not to create an embarrassing situation, for example, you should make eye contact, give a friendly smile and introduce yourself in a calm manner. If the person responds to you, then you know you are welcome to start a short conversation but do not ask weird questions.
Remember always that famous people are people like us and then, you do not need to be afraid of them but you must know that they are not always in a good mood.
The text I read explains carefully step by step how we should react in front of a famous face and not act like a fool and also, it gives overall tips and warnings about what to do and what not to do and the highest tip is to treat others how you would like to be treated.