Converting Nursery to a Big Boy Room
Aimee Willis
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Comments (22)If you get the tree tubs at a nursery or commercial landscaping company, go ahead and ask them if they have bulk qtys of landscape mix or whatever kind of manmade bedding mixes they fill large landcape islands or beds with. Usually, these will run from $25 dollars a "scoop" (generally 1/2 cubic yard) to maybe $55 - $65 a cubic yard, which would pretty much fill a shortbed pickup truck to where the bumper was down on the wheels. So, if they do, sweet talk the operator into letting you fill the tubs with this mix for some dirt cheap price like 50c or a buck per 10-gallon tub. One farmer I get this stuff from will let me fill 10-gallon tubs for 25c - 50c each depending on what kinda mood he's in or how close it is to Miller Time. He makes his mix from rotted bark and wood chips from the utility company right-of-way trimmings, rotted horse manure and stall bedding, native clay loam, sand and agricultural lime. I notice a lot of lawn care contractors also drop off leaves and grass clippings in his composting area. Anyway, get something that drains readily. Don't use garden soil! If the mix isn't sterile, such as homemade like what I get from that farmer, cut a piece of porous landscape fabric to top the filled container and suppress weeds. I plant my tomato transplants on my tailgate at the farmer's loading yard as I fill my containers in the spring. Don't go buying fancy shmancy bagged mixes if you can get something that works cheap from a farmer, soilbuilder or commercial nursery, etc. I add a little release Ozmocote fertilizer and some cheap 12-12-12 granules like what you can buy at Dollar General or Walmart for 2 or 3 bucks a 4-pound box ... right into the tubs as I fill them. Like in the top half of the growing mix. Then I still fertilize with half strength Miracle-Gro type tomato formula or rose formula every week to 10 days and water every other day or every day when it gets supper hot. You can stuff some wheat straw in the top of the containers and pile some up around the containers if the sun causes the black tubs to get exceedingly hot 'cuz if you don't, you risk baking the roots, distressing them, and causing BER. Good growing. Bill...See MoreBig Boy tomatoes
Comments (25)My mother grew Big Boy in her open ground garden in zone 4 for decades as her main variety. She never pruned them either or staked em, but she did fertilize the transplant water with MiracleGro and fertilized about half strength when she watered after that. I do not remember her ever having a crop failure with this variety. This was a farm garden and got a good spreader full of raw fertilizer plowed down in the fall. And then was retilled in the spring. It was also a clay based Iowa black dirt that had been garden for decades before I came along too; so it had to be handled carefully especially when wet, but we got very little BER. Try augmenting the soil with dolomite or epsom salts and if you use Peat Moss try switching to Coir for better pH which will help with the calcium and magnesium uptake problems that lead to BER. I have been very impressed with Burpee's Fourth of July for an early snack tomato and Parks Better Bush ISI (I never saw one plant set so many slicer sized tomatoes - the squirrels around here got em all, too; so I didn't even get a taste test). For heirlooms try Delicious. IMO the Brandywines are over-rated and under productive on top of it. Recipes for cooking squirrel would also be appreciated ... (only about half kidding) IIRC Burpee started the whole "Boy" line of hybrid beefsteak tomatoes in the first place, I see nothing wrong with them continuing to develop it. Or anybody else either for that matter....See MoreMoving from the crib to the 'Big Boy Bed'-Advice?
Comments (15)Congrats again!! Is Brody staying in the "nursery" or moving to a new room? With Olivia we always had a twin bed in her room near the crib. One day DH put her to bed and came downstairs and said, By the way, she is sleeping in the twin bed tonight. She just picked it one day. She was maybe 2 1/2? We used the crib to store stuffed toys and blankets for a while. I thought maybe she'd realize it's off-limits for sleeping? Then we made a big deal about 4 months before Katie was born that she got a whole new room and bed and she helped pick out colors/bedspread etc. We downplayed the nursery and focused on her big girl bed. I think we did the side rails for a while, but eventually just put some pillows on the floor in case. By chance, if he has any problems with moving, we have a bassinet that I could loan you for the baby to sleep in your room/another room for a little while? When the Katie was born we gave Olivia a present from the baby. She still talks about that and how happy she was!...See MoreThis bed for a boy's room? How hard to paint?
Comments (24)Still no beds. Hayden2, thanks for the suggestion. I laughed about the mention of decorator rooms. The boys' rooms (and furniture) are covered with their stickers, signs, artwork, etc. they have definitely made their rooms their own! So the boys actually have no interest in choosing the beds. The other week we were driving home and saw a warehouse-type place with a banner for a big furniture sale so I pulled in -- the 9 and 7 year old plopped down in chairs by the door and only the 5 year old was willing to walk in with me. I asked him which bed he liked and he said "it doesn't matter mom as long as it is not broken. Can we go home now?" :-) At this rate I will be happy if we get their beds before Thanksgiving....See MoreLyn Nielson
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