CreativeGardeningTips for the spring season

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2CREATIVE GARDENINGTIPS FOR THE SPRING

5SMART HOME INNOVATIONTO MAKE YOUR HOMEMORE COMFORTABLE

6SAMM SOUND: OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT EXPERTS

Gardeners often focus on thescience of their hobby: howmuch water and sunlight

their plants need and how to improvesoil quality and keep pests at bay. Butthere can be a lot of artistry behindthe craft as well -- from how you har-vest and enjoy flowers to how youconvert unused spaces of your homeinto a viable indoor edible garden.

Indoor Gardening

For those who don’t have an outdoorgarden or yard, the dream of enjoyingyour own freshly picked fruits and veg-etables may seem out of reach. How-ever, the nooks and crannies of yourhome can be creatively rendered intoproductive growing zones. And expertssay that nearly all homes can supportindoor gardening.

Put your creativity to good use this spring season bygardening with style.

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“Whatever the size of your home, there will be a selection of edible plants you can grow indoors, aslong as you have some natural daylight filtering in,”says Zia Allaway, author of “Indoor Edible Garden:Creative Ways to Grow Herbs, Fruit and Vegetables inYour Home.” “The areas where plants will grow canbe windowsills, beneath a skylight or even in a dark,unlit area if you install grow lights.”

In “Indoor Edible Garden,” a highly visual guide fullof practical tips and stylish ideas, Allaway offers step-by-step directions for everything from creatingsuspended shelves and hanging jars for growingherbs to mounting edible orchids onto bark and displaying them on walls. She points out that thoseembarking on indoor gardening should first evaluatethe level of time they can commit.

“Just remember that unlike other projects in thehome, such as decorating and cooking, all gardeningprojects require some aftercare. So, if you have a busyschedule, choose crops that will tolerate less water-ing and feeding.”

Flower Arranging

While your flower garden is likely a beautiful work ofart in and of itself, you can spread the joy by harvest-ing your flora and bringing the beauty indoors. Floralarrangements add vitality to any interior space.

“For me, every arrangement starts with the container.Think about what mood or style you want to evoke,and remember, anything can be a container as long as it can be made watertight,” says Rachel Siegfried,”

author of “The Flower Book: Natural Flower Arrange-ments for Your Home,” which explores 60 flowers,bloom-by-bloom in portraiture, including quick-refer-ence profiles and tips.

Siegfried recommends that, when selecting flowersfor your arrangement, pay attention to shapes, tex-tures and colors to achieve good balance. Start with a primary focal flower and build out with a couple of secondary focals, a final flourish, and foliage.

For her part, she relies on instinct. “I get a ‘buzz’when I find a good combination,” she says.

From flowering bouquets to spicy pepper plants,apply creativity to your gardening this spring.

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Picture a sunny summer afternoon. The baseballgame is playing on the television mounted onthe deck, burgers are on the grill and cold

drinks are in the cooler, above which the sound ofthe game blares through surround sound speakers.Although it may seem like a scene from a commer-cial, outdoor entertainment systems are becomingmore popular for the average family. No longer doguests have to stand in an open doorway to get aglimpse of the ball game and enjoy the weather.Now, families and friends can spend more time out-side together. “We can now take the comfort andenjoyment of your indoor living space and bring it tothe outdoors,” says SAMM Sound owner, Al DiMeo.

SAMM Sound is located at 1103 Bloomfield Ave inCaldwell, NJ and has been providing clients with in-door and outdoor entertainment systems for years.DiMeo asks potential customers to “let SAMM Sounddesign and install a truly great outdoor entertainmentsystem....We have the experience, the insurance, wewarranty the products, and we service what we sell.”SAMM Sound offers a wide variety of products includ-ing; Bose, Boston Acoustics, Yamaha, Marantz, MartinLogan, Monitor Audio, Niles Audio, Origin Acoustics,RBH Sound, Sonance, Speakercraft, Stealth Acoustics,Stereo Stone, Sunfire, TDG Audio and Velodyne. DiMeoand his team encourage customers to “come visit andsee what they look like and what they sound like.”

SAMM Sound even has speakers that blend into anoutdoor setting, disguised as rocks or mushrooms, soas not to disrupt the backyard panorama. The bestpart about SAMM Sound’s outdoor set-ups is thattheir televisions and speakers are completely weatherproof. That means no lugging equipment inside andoutside whenever it rains and no tripping over cordsto set up music by the pool.

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Samm Sound: Outdoor Entertainment Experts

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One of the speaker systems SAMM Sound offersis Sonos speakers, which allow customers theability to pair their smart device music appssuch as Spotify directly with the wireless speak-ers. Sonos speakers do not have to be synced,however, meaning one family member could beoutside listening to Led Zepplin while another is inside listening to Ed Sheeran in the kitchen. If hosting an indoor and outdoor party, Sonosspeakers can be synced to play the same musicthroughout the house and outside. One of themost interesting accessories for speaker systemsthat SAMM Sound offers is Trueplay. Trueplay is aspeaker tuning program that measures the size

and shape of a room including anything in theroom that may disrupt the sound quality and adjusts the speakers to play accordingly. All ofthe products SAMM Sound offers are on displayand ready to be explained by staff on site.

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