New sequel Pro, Ok, so its not new in terms of launch date as its been out a while but its not until now that I have actually bothered to upgrade. At first glance the UI has changed. Some nice little tweaks and really well thought out. The application runs faster and has eliminated some of the bad elements like loading all the table contents which can kill the machine. Export and Import runs smoother and the information on progress is more detailed and thus allot more constructive. My favorite aspect is the really nice way that in the query browser you can isolate the section of the code you want to run, run one statement or all the statements in the panel! very nice. All in all for free this is a sweet bit of software.

FTP, well, I love cyberduck cos its free and really easy to use, but my old favorite from Windows, Filezilla is on Mac! Thank god, the one major feature that gets me excited and happy about this software is the ability to upload or download files and choose to only overwrite if newer than destination file. In essence it works like sync but I just find it performs better than cyber ducks sync process.

Another pc and mac software I would recommend is Navicat, never wanted to pay for it till now! For a client project I needed it for mssql to mysql conversion and boy did it do that well, the software is just as good as most free mysql software but this package is alot more stable and faster. On top of that, it has a great little set of report tools for nice report generation to impress the clients.

I love gardening now, its a fact. But when me and Gemma went to do this, I had grass, weeds and Gemma thinking it would not work to contend with. But its easy to do, in the climate we face, once you have the kit, home grown is cheaper, healthier and better for you.

I know I sound like a hippie but its true, the first thing is that once you grow it, you eat it. I hate tomatoes and I now eat them! dont like them much, they taste ok from backgarden but to be honest, if we had not grown them, I would not eat them. The biggest cost is pots, properagators, plastic greenhouses and cains. Once you have them, the cost per yeild will be lower and lower till you break even and even make profit, it will happen. Seeds are cheap if you pick the right places to buy them. I would suggest B and Q for the packets of everything that means you pay 33 pence a packet. That or the pound shop. This year I got plant food for 99pence and wish I got loads more as it works, cheap and most of all every penny counts, these cost alot less than the big chain versions and miricle grow.

Pick the plot, make sure that you give the plot good time to grow weeds, de-weed then carry on till it gets the normal amount if its a really grassy or weedy part of the garden. Then plant away, feed and away you go. There is loads more to it but I am just trying to say, I can do it, it was poor ground and it still works. Just give it love, care and attention. If you dont enjoy it then dont do it again, try it with herbs and potted tomateos first. A little tip, grow the tomatoes in small pots in doors first. Once about 24 inches tall, transfer to a bigger pot, 7 or 8 inches and put outside. Once they grow some more, transfer the plant and pot to the lawn or soil. Use canes to prop up the plant and support with ties as it grows. Dont tie it too tight but enough to hold it up. The roots should go via the pots holes in the bottom, into the ground and blossom without planting them at all. Its what we did with the cherry tomatoes thise year. I did my ones late and they did not grow like the money makers but they are really going some now. Its the mistakes that I do now that will help me and the reader of this blog get better results.

So with all that I thought that some pics from my garden. well more artistic ones in this post will go nicely. I do have loads of other pictures of the crops in my other posts but to be honest these ones are testing out my new camera to see what it can do, plus develop my picture taking skills.

Enjoy:

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