Using pots as a base to small pergola
WillCarpenter
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Comments (6)Just sharing a tip. I starts lots of things from seeds, and have been doing it for years and years. Last year I had my best pepper transplants EVER! This is what I did: 6-7 evenly spaced pepper seeds planted into a 4" pot. When plants were about 2-3" tall they were each transplanted into a 4-4.5" pot. Voila!! No losses, no issues. This sowing/transplanting scheme happened because I did not need to sow many seeds of each pepper variety, and I just did not have the time to transplant earlier and transplant multiple times into ever larger pots. This saved me time and energy, and the plants thrived:)...See MoreDoes anyone have a Kraftmaid Base Pots and Pan Pull Out?
Comments (10)Melanie, thanks for the follow up. "Glass Land" came from the fact that I have a "plastic land" - that's my husband's name for where all the rubbermaid/gladware/and, yes, we have one of those carousel storage systems is. If I could figure out how to embed a picture in these posts, I'd attach a picture of my current glass land. I have everything stacked on top of each other - DH refuses to put dishes away in it. I feel like drawers won't help with accessibility very much - I'll still have to stack items on top of each other. Diamond actually has a couple of pictures that show this same pull-out really loaded up, and it looks very versitile. Both pullouts can slide separately so there's no reaching under and over things. I still would have to stack items, no question, but it seems like a better option than just a regular 2 pullout trays. Maybe? http://www.diamondcabinets.com/Lowes/storage/storage_detail.cfm?sectionID=3&imgID=101 http://www.diamondcabinets.com/Lowes/storage/storage_detail.cfm?sectionID=3&imgID=100...See MoreFinally found some small pots! And then I filled them with plants...
Comments (16)Kim - Not a problem at all. I think you should just go for whatever looks interesting. If you're worried, just don't order anything terribly expensive. Haworthia aren't that difficult to grow. Some grow slower and are more difficult than others, but that's just like any succulent. I just get them anyway! For a while, many succulent species were intimidating and I thought I would never grow them. But when I finally got them, I realized they really weren't so bad. =) Sinha - My mix is made of white granite grit (grower size), Turface, and fir bark (blended reptibark). The five photos above show its size and composition. I do customize the ratios of the mix for each plant species. Most important is the mix to be well aerated and not hold too much water. I am fertilizing my succulents and am using liquid Miracle Gro 12-4-8. It's not very fancy, but is easy to get locally and is affordable....See Morebest gas burners for small (1 qt.) pots and lower heat in front
Comments (6)Sandy, don't worry. Most of us who hang around here don't have typical cooking needs. In California, we have a Gaggenau distributor, Purcell Murray (one in the Bay area and one in SoCal), who would know about the cleaning. The downdraft is a big red flag, however. Downdraft and flames aren't friends. What some of our members have done when they wanted to change to induction is get an induction cooktop, and use an old turkey fryer on the porch for a pressure canner, or have a Summer kitchen attached to the barn with a cheap stove and fridge, just for processing and canning. I don't know if any of that would work for you. I have a 15", two burner gas domino, and a 24" induction cooktop, with the 11" double ring and two smaller elements, full power that one would get in full sized cooktop, so even though I don't can, I can relate to your thoughts. Any electronic kitchen appliance is going to have a limited life. Motherboards die. But for all of that, I've seen a lot more issues with induction ranges, which are complex and have heat issues. Separate cooktops are pretty reliable. If you're worried about it you might consider an extended warranty, but keep in mind that a four year warranty only covers you for highly premature failure. The number I see most often is that the average life of electronic appliances is about seven years. What I don't know is what the average life for high quality ones is, as opposed to this floating figure that we have no methodology to check up on. Someone always gets the one that goes pffft far too soon which balances the one that lasts forever, so I can't really say more about your longevity concerns. Simple gas cooktops are hard to kill. The ones with electronic igniters aren't that hard to repair. Neither is idea with a downdraft--and induction would totally solve your simmer issues. We had a discussion before where someone gave info on how to light a range cooktop manually. The electronic igniters aren't really the problem. It's that some ranges (for sure the Whirlpool group (inc. Maytag and KitchenAid) have an electronic gas shut off valve to prevent you from cooking while the self clean is running, but can't tell the difference between that and any other power outage. That shouldn't exist for a gas cooktop rather than range. Do check to be sure, but I think the answer was that some require you to hold the knob at a certain place to engage the valve or something. I'm sorry this is long and disorganized. You might be helped with a pro/con list to get a good sense of the order of priorities of your requirements, then you can do a spreadsheet or something of which units fill them. I'm sure there's a good answer out there for you, even if it's unconventional....See MoreWillCarpenter
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