Opinions on Buckeyes- too messy?
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Aesculus x carnea 'O'Neills Red' true from buckeye seed?
Comments (30)Do not let the nuts dry out very long before getting them planted. I have best results from harvesting them just as the husks start to split and planting immediately. They're at risk as well for theft from rodents. I usually hedge my bets on Ohio Buckeye by starting some in pots with wire over them, and burying some immediately outside into soft soil and leaf litter. I don't have to stratify A. pavia, and start them in the g'house in sand flats with 100% success rate........but I suspect A. carnea will need to be cold treated. I don't know if you could use any of the parental stock like A. pavia on which to graft but I suspect that chip or whip grafts would be successful if you can get compatible rootstock. If you could get mama tree to hang in there a couple years, you'd have scion stock or buds handy for your new seed-started rootstock. Idabean..........no, I didn't take offense at your comments. I think I took it like you meant it. I like it too when the whole peanut gallery chimes in with their thoughts on a subject. Horse chestnuts and buckeyes just happen to be one of my passions and some years I start upwards of a hundred trees. Some of my babies are all over this county, I suspect....See MoreMessy neighbor -- need trees to screen
Comments (26)Thanks, earthly. It's times like this that you learn how little you are protected by local codes. You can park anything on the street that has a current registration, no matter how crumby it looks. Boats on trailers can be parked in the street as long as the trailer is hooked up to a car or truck. I have the bad luck to live across from a slob (who is also mean and stupid) and now I have this mess next door. The neighbors are very much on top of things but the township can only do so much. We have a lot on our street where the guy knocked the house down three years ago and has left a mess ever since. We've been all over him about cleaning up but as long as he has a current building permit there is nothing we can do, excpet make the lot safe. As soon as one permit expires, he gets another. There are 40 house on my street and at least 36 of them are beautifully kept. Just my luck to be near two eyesores. Anyway, I am looking into bamboo in containers that will grow fast. I am concerned about planting in the ground since I don't want them to spread like mad. Looks like we're finally getting the rain we need. I just didn't want it all at once. Thanks for your supportive and helpful comments! Pam...See MoreRemember my messy desk? lots of pic's
Comments (14)Thank you everyone for your nice comments. The hardest part is in the design, It's hard for me to visualize things sometimes ... I need a lot of visual aids. I'm not sure if I posted the original drawing, however it does look different and we also kicked up the molding a notch, by making it a little 'proud' for the overall plain design. The hardware link -- I got from someone on this forum :) I scoured all the stores on the Island looking for unique pulls. First, I want to show the 4 pulls (court jesters) that I snagged from a yard sale. They were 4 for 3.00 Can you imagine parting with these? We built two curios for our Living Room around these pulls, as well as a dvd cabinet for the den. They were about 2" longer and had a mounting screw on the end. We cut them down to the size they are now. For the Living room I bought fancy backplates and for the den I bought plain ones... pictured below... The DVD cabinet pulls: The Living Room pulls, with a fancy backplate: Here is the link for the pulls that we used on the Secretary Unit....I found the drawer pulls in Home Depot and antiqued them to match the pulls. It took me two weeks to choose the pulls, as they had so many nice ones. Here is a link that might be useful: Vandykes Hardware...See More"Messy cook" - what does this really mean?
Comments (43)I was thinking the same thing as juliekcmo said: I think, in the context of the larger world outside of GW, that "messy cook" = "I cook" (vs I reheat/thaw) It goes farther, however. I wasn't feeling well so went for high convenience, low fuss. I asked the butcher to butterfly the chicken for me (i.e., no chicken bits flying because someone got too happy with his cleaver). I did slice an onion but used pre-peeled baby carrots, peewee potatoes, and yellow cherry sized tomatoes. Put all the veg in a sheet pan with the chicken on top, and--look out for the mess!--dumped a bottle of madras sauce over the chicken. Nope. No spills or splashes, just have to rinse down the sink after rinsing the jar for the recycling (waste of water, not mess). Delicious dinner. Passably homecooked, though not from scratch. No mess. One knife and cutting board to be washed. Dished up out of the pan. Pan went in DW. Some people do that kind of mess free, low prep cooking all the time. When I make a big kettle of spaghetti sauce, it splatters. It gets on the backsplash, and the counters, and the floor. Not a lot of it. But there's some mess what with the bubbling and the stirring and the ladling and the pouring. And for sure there are little tomato drips on the soapstone (and the tile). Like they could care. People complain about cleaning grout, but I can't even get red paint to stain it. Tomato sauce is a breeze. But by the time the containers are cool enough to refrigerate and the counter is revealed, if it were marble, it would have etched freckles at the least, and they'd probably be red ones. Yes, one could put down paper, or even better, a board, to preserve the marble, but what the hay? It's a kitchen counter! It seems silly to have to cover it in order to be able to ladle out spaghetti sauce. There's enough other clean-up to do as well, without obsessively lifting each container and trying to wipe up unseen freckles well enough that they don't become permanent. I do clean as I go, and actually wash the counter (and backsplash and floor (unless the housekeeper is coming in the morning, in which case I just wipe)) after everything's packed up, but, yes, I'm too messy a cook for marble....See Moregreenthumbzdude
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