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Pour a small amount of vinegar in flower vase and place throughout to kitchen to absorb cooking odors

Steve G on Mar 31, 2011

Does it absorb the odor or replace it with the smell of vinegar? Not trying to be snarky. It's ...»
a serious question because I need to absorb the smell of cloth diapers between laundry cycles.

Outdoor Living: I would like to plant tomatoes this year, but I want the plants to grow on my deck.

What type of container or soil can I use to make sure the roots are getting enough oxygen and fertilizer?

Steve G on Mar 31, 2011

Tomatoes should thrive in a 5-gallon bucket with some holes along the bottom of the sides, as ...»
well as an inch of gravel in the bottom, both for drainage. Your garden center should have a good potting soil mix with soil, vermiculite and peat moss. Use that, and add some cow manure or other rich organic compost. Promix and similar synthetic soils also should work OK, but you'll have to be careful to water them more.
Check the plants daily for water, disease and pests, and put wire "cages" around each plant. This helps train the runners, and will result in more fruit.
You should have some good tomatoes. My neighbors had a bumper crop of tomatoes last year in 50-gallon buckets - far more fruit than my other neighbors or myself growing them in established vegetable plots.
But be warned, this will have to become an annual habit. You'll never want to go back to tasteless supermarket tomatoes.