Gardening Made Easy With DealDash


Yesterday we told you how you could can and dehydrate your fruits and vegetables from your summer garden, but what if you don’t have a garden started yet? We want you to be well on your way to having a successful garden this summer.
Here are some gardening tips and items to help you start your garden.
1. Composting
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Composting is great because it not only helps you save when it comes to your monthly trash bill, composting makes your soil so much more fertile to produce delicious fruits and vegetables. Composting is a process where you collect your fruit and vegetable scraps, egg shells, coffee grounds, put them in a bucket then transport them to a composter, a dark container with holes for ventilation. After some time the scraps will break down and become fertilizer. For kitchen scraps keep a container with a lid and a handle under the sink you can use a stainless steel pail or an old ice cream bucket then transport them to your composter. 

DealDash offers auctions for the Koolscapes 50 Gallon Sandstone Composter.
A “contemporary 50 Gallon Composter is uniquely designed with the aesthetic elegance of authentic stone with the longevity of plastic. Made with unique stone line appearance, Has a locking lid, Rear door for access to compost, Tea collection reservoir, Holes for Aeration, Screen for tea collection and drain for tea.”
Tea? Yeah, I was wondering what that was all about too. Compost tea is not tea you drink but a nutrient rich tea for your plants:

Compost tea is easily made by soaking or steeping compost in water. The resulting compost tea is used for either a foliar application (sprayed on the leaves) or applied to the soil.We all know that compost is a wonderful addition to soil and helps our gardens grow better. You and your garden plants can benefit even more by using compost tea.By using compost tea to replace chemical-based fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides, you can garden safer and be more protective of the environment. Compost tea:

  • Increases plant growth
  • Provides nutrients to plants and soil
  • Provides beneficial organisms
  • Helps to supress diseases
  • Replaces toxic garden chemicals

Source https://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/recycle/Tea/tea1.htm

2. Greenhouses
While not necessary to a successful garden a great way to get a head start on your garden is a greenhouse. The greenhouse is the perfect seed starting environment. It’s wind resistant and provides a lot of light for your budding vegetable, fruit and flower plants.
DealDash offers a number of greenhouse auctions. This one, The Clear Flower Greenhouse last sold for just $1.69!
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This portable, pop up greenhouse is perfect for extending your growing season and protecting your plants.The Unique Flowerhouse Pop Up design make Greenhouse set up the easiest it has ever been. Screened vent openings allow for optimum air circulation. Read this blog for more greenhouse auctions and types offered on DealDash.
 
3. Raised Bed Gardens
Raised bed gardens look great in your yard and especially great because you don’t have to till up or make a mess out of your lawn.
DealDash offers a number of different raised bed garden frames:
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Frame It All Raised Garden Curvesgarden benSuncast Tiered Raised Garden Bed

Both raised garden beds look great in your yard, made of durable plastic resin vs. wood that rots and easy to set up you will have a beautiful garden in no time without even needed to tea up the yard.
4. Potted Gardens
If you don’t have a yard to plant you can still grow a great garden with pots. You just need a small deck or patio with sun and you can grow everything from herbs to jalapenos, bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers, and berries.
Check out this great Niles concrete planter with indoor/outdoor speaker on DealDash:planter

Magnolia Premium Installation  – this Niles indoor/outdoor speaker features a 6-1/2″ TCC-filled woofer and two 1″ Teteron tweeters to ensure sonic vibrancy while you enjoy your favorite music. The speaker simulates a planter to offer a stylish accent to your backyard or garden. Find out when this will go to auction on DealDash by clicking “Alert Me” at Niles Magnolia Speaker Planter.
Gardening tools – 
Check out these auctions on DealDash for gardening tools:
Barnel USA Garden Hand Trowel, Cultivator and Transplanter Kit and the Radius Gardens Pro Digging Fork.
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Do you garden? Be sure to check out DealDash’s summer bid promotion where bids are just $0.17 right now! Tell us what you grow!

 

 

Preserving Your Summer Garden Bounty

This season gardening has become more popular.
If  you have your greenhouse up and your  garden started you are most likely on your way to a wonderful bounty of fresh vegetables, and/or fruit this summer.
What do you do with all of the yield?
Well, first of all the best thing would be to give away excess to friends of family, but another option would be to preserve your produce and store it for the winter months.
The best ways to this are 1.) canning and 2.) dehydrating.
Canning
canning tomatoesPhoto Credits — Creative Commons/Some Rights Reserved Photo by Marc.
If you plan on having a lot of tomatoes, cucumbers, jalapenos, the best way to preserve them to enjoy later would be to can them. As a beginner to canning you should really start small with a batch of tomatoes or berries.
Watch this great video Canning 101 to learn how!


For more info on canning you should check out this highly-rated book on canning at Amazon.com for just under $14. It’s jam-packed with 175 recipes.  Use an Amazon gift card that you win on DealDash to save!
Dehydrating
 
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Photo Credits CC-Some Rights Reserve – by Larry Jacobsen 
Dehydrating is a process that dries out water from something and extends its life for quite a long time by doing so. You can dehydrate carrots, peas, snap peas, tomatoes (sun dried tomatoes anyone?), apples for apple chips, banana chips, peaches and more!
There’s a wide variety of dehydrators for sale on DealDash.
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The  king of food dehydrators has got to be the Excalibur with stainless steel + a timer. It’s great because it has a temperature control and rectangular sheets instead of the circular dehydrator. It just works better and is great if you are into healthy eating and a raw foods lifestyle where you don’t cook your foods over 104 degrees. You can make great kale chips, flax crackers, raw burgers, dehydrator bananas, mangoes, apple, strawberries and make your own fruit leather.  The Excalibur is a one per user item, meaning it can only be one once by each bidder. And the past two auctions it has sold CHEAP with prices around $1.00 total!
As you can see below, and by using the search function to look up the food dehydrator auctions at DealDash.com, DealDash has a variety of dehydrators including a Nesco American Harvest 400 Watt Four Tray Dehydrator, Elite Gourmet 5-Tray Dehydrator, L’ Equip FilterPro Dehydrator, Presto Dehydro Digital Electric Dehydrator, Waring Pro DHR30 Food Dehydrator, Total Chec TCFD-05 5-Tray Food Dehydrator, a Nesco – Snackmaster Pro 700, and more. You can get alerts by clicking on “Alert Me” and DealDash will notify you when the auction becomes available for bidding. 
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According to the Energise for Life website, “The dehydration process retains almost 100% of the nutritional content of the food, retains the alkalinity of fresh produce and actually inhibits the growth of microforms such as bacteria.”

Do you can or dehydrate? If you would like to be sure to check out these auctions on DealDash. Good luck!
 

The Best Deals on DealDash May 25th to June 1st



Have you scored any great deals on the entertainment auction site DealDash.com?
DealDash doesn’t just sell gift cards and electronics as you can see from many posts in this blog, DealDash offers just about everything for everyone. From toilet paper and cleaning supplies to other household necessities to appliances and tools such as Dyson Vacuums, coffee makers, keurigs, bicycles, swimming pools, popcorn machines, iPads, Apple products, HDTVs, laptop computers, Macbooks, gift cards to hundreds of retailers, and so much more. How it works is bidders buy bid packs with a specified amount of bids and bids range in price from sometimes $0.14 to $0.60 a bid. Users place bids and whenever a bidder is unopposed when the timer finally hits zero as a result of no one else bidding to reset the clock they will win.
Wondering what kind of prices items are going for and the deals that other DealDash users are getting? Check out the Winners page on the website or read this post for the best deals this week that were won on DealDash.
The Best Deals on DealDash Over the Past Week:
May 25th:
Germ Guardian 3 in 1 99.97% True HEPA Air Purifier – valued at $100 was won for as little as $0.64 (64 bids by everyone!) the winner, papa2626 only placed a few bids. And the final end price of $0.64 was slashed.
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Then on May 26th, an HP 20-inch Widescreen LED Monitor sold for just $0.76!

hp monitorOn May 27th, this $80 Hamilton Beach Searing Grill sold for $0.06 – dugdig placed one bid that probably only cost him $0.16! hamilton beach grill
Then, May 28 this amazing Sony Under Cabinet CD R/RW Clock Radio worth $85 sold for $0.06 – yep  Tricia007 only spent 3 bids to win! Wow.
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Then, on May 29th these awesome Beats by Dr. Dre Powerbeats Sport Headphones were won by Kasue for just $0.12! Whoa since they’re valued at $150. Talk about another steal of a deal on DealDash!
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May 30th was a great day for MyBidzNvrQuit who won the NETGEAR NeoTV Prime Media Player with Google TV for a final end price of just $0.19 – and the value of this media player is $100!
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June 1st 44384 won M-Audio Studiophile 3-inch bookshelf speakers for $0.14 + 3 bids. A lot of deals were won by bidders on Saturday, check them out here! speaker deals Then just yesterday, June 1st, this $121 KitchenAid Food Processor was won by Bobbyabear for only $0.90 as the final end price. Wow!kitchenaid deals
What kind of items would you like to win on DealDash?

Summer Fun Guide with DealDash: Geocaching for Treasure!


Geocaching is a really fun summer activity!
What is Geocaching?
Geocaching is a treasure hunt of epic proportions
Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices.
Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.
How is the game played?
You can join in  by going to Geocaching.com
“At its simplest level, geocaching requires these 8 steps:
Register for a free Basic Membership.
Visit the “Hide & Seek a Cache” page.
Enter your postal code and click “search.”
Choose any geocache from the list and click on its name.
Enter the coordinates of the geocache into your GPS Device.
Use your GPS device to assist you in finding the hidden geocache.
Sign the logbook and return the geocache to its original location.
Share your geocaching stories and photos online.
There are many other levels to the game. Keep reading the guide to learn more!”
Types of Caches:
Caches can be a mystery or a puzzle, a traditional cache which is a container
found at the given coordinates. An EarthCache is a special geological location to explore.
A letterbox Cache uses clues instead of coordinates.
An event cache is a gatheri ng of local geocaches that get together.
The only equipment needed to go Geocaching is a GPS or GPS enabled cellphone.
For GPS deals & brand new smartphones check out these auctions on DealDash!
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There are currently 2,408,406 active geocaches and over 6 million geocachers worldwide! If you don’t have a great smartphone or GPS go and win one and let us know what you find!