Garden News
If anyone out there can tell me how to keep corn from blowing over in thunder storms, I sure would appreciate it.
Other than bad luck with corn, my garden has done real well this year, even the zucchini, which was supposed to be yellow squash.
I have two fig trees that just exploded with fruit this year and we have canned at least 30 pints of preserves so far. Another way I like figs is to dehydrate them. They are like huge raisins, and I munch on them throughout the day as a snack.
The tomatoes are thriving extraordinarily well this year. I bought an heirloom variety, Red Brandywine, and I’m gonna save some of the seeds to replant next year. They are delicious!
I went online to glean some tips on growing tomatoes as my tomato growing success has been iffy to this point. Practicing what I learned has paid off in my best crop of tomatoes ever.
Simple tomato tips:
- Plant deep
- Put a cup of lime in the bottom of the planting hole
- As you plant the tomato plant, put peak moss all around the stem and keep dirt away from the stem. This helps prevent disease and it really works, or at least it has for me.
- Pinch off runners so the tomatoes grow up on one central vine
- Drive an 8 foot stake beside the plant and tie the plant to the stake as it continues to grow skyward.
- Prune off lower limbs that come in contact with the ground.
The apple trees took a vacation this year after last year’s prodigious crop.
I have some thornless blackberries and raspberries too and they seem to have their own mind about whether they want to produce or not. So far this year, not so good.
Chickens are happy so far and laying well. We have several regular customers who buy what we can’t eat ourselves. I have four “chicken tractors” or movable pens that they live in. I move them a little each day and they get fresh grass and bugs to eat and my yard gets fertilized. That’s the way I go green. I wouldn’t recommend this if you live in a subdivision. You’ll probably be asked to leave. But to me, my chickens are my pets. I treat them well and they provide me with fresh eggs and fertilize the grass.
IF, you’re a Bio-Clean
user, you save countless thousands of dollars in plumbing service bills
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example, we recently got a call from someone who had the chance, month after
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never did. Their kitchen sink stopped up
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I know, it’s tough to remember to use it, especially when you
can’t actually see it working, but it does work. In our family, it’s my wife Dianne, who
reminds me, the plumber, to use it. Put
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Water Heaters
All the rage is who can beat who on price. Well, I’ll match any written quote from any licensed competitor. Just remember, the ad you hear on the radio to install a water heater for $599 or $699 is different than their actual written quote. After all, to them, installing a water heater means connecting two pipes and turning the gas back on. Everything else cost extra.
Toilets
Why do you think some toilets cost only $69. Let me explain it like this. Ladies, have you ever bought a set of china dishes that seemed to chip just by looking at them hard? Well, it’s the same with a $69 dollar toilet. It’s cheap china. You can get a decent toilet for around $250. You can spend more, but you start paying for frills once you get over $300 and up.
Contest
A couple of years ago, I had a contest where you sent in testimonials about your experience with Plumb Smart and the winner got a FREE hot water circulating system installed in their home. We’re going to do it again! Pay attention to the rules.
Prizes
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1st
Place – 3 year supply of Bio-Clean and snake out all your interior drains -
$522 value
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2nd
Place – 3 year supply of Bio-Clean - $177 value
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3rd
Place – 2 year supply of Bio-Clean - $118 value
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4th
through last Place – A free can of Bio-Clean with your next service - $59 value
So you see, everyone that enters gets something!
Contest RULES:
1. Write your testimonial. Be yourself and write like you talk, not like you were taught in English class. Make it however long you want.
2. Email it to me at plumbsmart@gmail.com or
3. Fax it to me at 770-917-0562 or
3. Mail it to me at 175 Goldfinch Path, Acworth, GA 30101
4. You have until November 30 this year. I will announce the winners in the December newsletter.
“Please use Plumb Smart for your plumbing, they are great!”… is an example of a BAD testimonial, and something like that will not be considered. When you testify in court you give a specific, precise eye witness account of what you saw or what you experienced, in your own words. So just be yourself and write like you talk.
By entering the contest you give Plumb Smart, Inc. permission to use your testimonial in its advertising.
Why Have a Contest?
If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m a little abnormal. My company is a little abnormal and my marketing methods are a little abnormal too. You won’t find us in the Yellow Pages, hear us on the radio, or see us on giant bill boards or TV. My primary method of marketing is personally keeping in touch with you by this newsletter. I’d speculate I’m the only plumber in the country that does it this way. So, I depend on you to spread the word and refer us to others. That puts the pressure on us to do a great job every time you call. The logic here is, if you trust us, you’ll refer us. With the contest, I’m asking you to take one more step and write down what you would tell someone when you refer us. I will use the testimonials in prospecting via direct mail campaigns to your neighbors and neighborhoods like yours. What you say about us is valuable in my marketing efforts and the contest is a way of you for helping me grow my business.
Good Books to Read
The 5000 Year Leap
This book explains how man finally figured out that certain inalienable rights are God given and wrote them down on two documents called the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and they belong to the citizens to protect us from the Government. As a result, in a little over 100 years, Americans, with only 5% of the worlds land mass and only 6% of the world’s population, were producing 50% of everything in the world. Every time citizens allow the constitution to be violated we give up liberty and prosperity. Any law that goes contrary to the Constitution is illegal and you don’t have to obey it. The Constitution is the citizens’ protection against tyranny.
Did anyone out there study the U.S. Constitution in school? How about The Federalist Papers which explain the proper interpretation of the Constitution? How about Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. I wonder as an American, how I ever got through school without being taught these things.
Well, before I get carried away with my own political ineptitude - you know, thinking I’m free and all – I’ll go ahead and say goodbye ‘til next month. Be safe and go get your flu shots. I’m going to race down my zip line, chop some firewood, plant a fall crop, catch and eat some fish and generally try to be as dangerous as I can.
‘Til next month,
Paul the plumber
404-427-0302
Don’t forget to use your Bio-Clean!
