I use this simple but handy tool every year when I plant impatients in my front yard. I buy grown impatients, not seeds, so each one requires digging a small hole in the ground for transplanting. This bulb planter makes digging such holes very easy. It is a hollow metal cylinder with a handle on top; as you press it to the ground and push on the handle, the cylinder cuts our a neat, round hole ...

I am a big fan of Fiskars gardening tools, they are sturdy and easy to use. I do not, however, own this bulb planter (yet), I have another one by Yardworks, which I like; but when I saw this one at a friend's place, I just had to borrow it to see whether Fiskars verson was any better. The transplanters are very similar: a hollow steel cylinder with a handle, you press on the handle and cut o...

I believe that lighting really sets the mood in a home, and therefore, I have many accent lamps scattered throughout our house. Recently I discovered these silicone dipped bulbs in a lovely pink color. They are 5 Watt bulbs, that come in a package of 2. Quite frequently you will see these bulbs in country candle type lamps. But I am using them in a slightly different way. Remember those old fas...

My husband and I happen to live in an apartment that has minimal lighting.  One reason, quite truthfully, is due to our desire to be "frugal", in order to cut down on the sometimes mountainous power bills bestowed upon us by our local electric company.  We are always seeking  products to save us money and, at the same time, provide us with a little assistance in ge...

GE CFL Light Bulb: 26 Watt (100W Equivalent), 6-Pk- these are the new bulbs that are supposed to save on your energy costs.  There are pros and cons to these light bulbs.  These bulbs are 26 watt, using 75% less energy, but they are supposed to put out as much light as a 100 W light bulb.  They also stay cooler then regular light bulbs.They also save you $59.00 over the life of...

This is the second (alphabetically) of a 20 volume set. I give the set as a whole very high marks, and this particular volume is one of the particularly good ones. There are, of course, books about bulbs which are hundreds of pages long, or focused on one particular species.  But as part of this set, and with a broad overview yet keeping a great deal of specific information, this volume ac...

Last year, during a home renovation work, we changed all our light bulbs with Philips CFL bulbs. We moved to Philips, because we heard many positive reviews their bulbs. We mostly used the twister type (15Watt) for our home. The CFL bulbs are very compact in size and easily fits in all sorts of home lighting arrangements. Surprisingly, one month after switching to the new twister CFL bulbs, our...

I have found that most standard incandescent bulbs which go into lamps or light fixtures produce and dingy, dull, yellow light.  Trying to read or do work in that kind of light can be hard on your eyes.  After seeing an article about full-spectrum lighting, I decided it was something I needed to improve the quality of light in my home.  You can recognize full-spectrum bulbs in st...

Everytime one of our old incandescent light bulbs burns out, I try to replace it with one of the new, more energy-efficient, compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs.  When the bulb at the base of our basement stairs burned out earlier this week, I figured I would upgrade that one to CFL as well.Since the bulb I needed was not one of the standard sizes typically carried by the local supermarket, I ...

I  had heard about these new type of light bulbs for the house. They are supposed to be so energy efficient. So on our last trip to the Home Depot my wife and I decided to get some and give them a try. We ended up getting the N. Vision soft white four-pack of sixty watt equivalent bulbs. They are actually fourteen watts bulbs, but are equivalent to a sixty watt bulb. They look different, s...

My 1999 Lexus RX300's left headlight went out about a week ago preventing me from driving at night. Eventually I got frustrated and finally got some white light headlight bulbs. Compared to the yellow light my old ones provided, I have to say that the Silverstar halogen lights display a much clearer, brighter, and more shiney light.I've only driven my car no more than 10 times...

If you're like me, you hate the generic, disgusting light output by a standard incandescent bulb. "Soft white" isn't white at all, it's yellow.  Because of this, I went out of my way to find a better solution.  One option that I chose was the reveal 40 lightbulbs, by GE.      These have a higher temperature filament (6800K), in addition to a s...

This is the store brand of these compact fluorescent bulbs. They are only a miserly twenty three watt draw which barely moves the electric meter. Even a whole case would draw barely enough juice to get the dial moving. These bulbs are in the GREEN ZONE. Which means they are good for the environment ,because they draw seventy seven percent less electricity than and equivalent one hundred watt in...

Wal Mart put out their own brand of compact fluorescent bulbs to keep up with the competition-what can I say?  For half the price of the regular brands, you get to light up your home for less!  Fluorescent bulbs are supposed to replace regular bulbs so you can get the same amount of light for fewer watts, saving you money on your energy bill.  I believe the do work how they say, ...

I have a freshwater aquarium, and I use Lights of America Mini Fluorescent Aquarium Bulbs in the light that sits on top of the tank.  The light takes two bulbs, and these mini fluorescents are a good buy.  Walmart has them for a cheaper price than I have seen in other stores.Each bulb is 10 watts and is made especially for freshwater aquariums.  One bulb provides natural 6500k da...

I know it's not politically correct these days to admit that I very much prefer incandescent light, to florescent. But quite honestly, I have to admit that I do. There is just a warmth to incandescent lighting that florescent just doesn't have. I absolutely hate the cold, sterile feel of florescent lighting. However, since new legislation has recently passed, it seems that very soon flo...

I bought these on an extended shopping trip and noticed them while waiting for my wife, there was a big midway display all about energy saving and such. I had never tried these before because when I bought light bulbs i would always do the same thing and by whatever was least expensive. Well to make a long story a little shorter, I purchased these because they were at great price from what I ha...

In some of the darker rooms of my home, I like to use the 100 watt light bulbs to brighten them up.  The Sunbeam light bulbs are a brand that I have grown to trust and rely on throughout the years.  The light bulbs last a long time and give out quality soft white light in the darker rooms of my home.The Sunbam light bulbs put out 100 lumens.  They also have the 60 watt and 40 wat...

We were looking to save money on our energy bill, and we thought we'd give these newer bulbs a go.  We bought the 20 watt type, that they say produces as much light as a regular 75 watt bulb.They are not lying!  These bulbs are great!  They may even produce more light than claimed!The last longer than the older regular light bulbs too, and we've noticed that our energy bi...

I first bought the Hound Dog Bulb Hound to plant some bulbs at my mother-in-laws. She is in her mid eighties and still loves to putter around her garden. She needs to have garden tools tht are easy to use.She had moved to a small senior complex where the last tenant had left one neglected rose bush in the small plant able area outside her little patio. The first nice weekend, six of us went ove...