i dunno, the TRUE garden centers here water their stock that way so it may be soemthign to it. personally i use soakers to irrigate, i can water only where i want and this cuts down on weeds in my spread out garden. 3 years ago i was using sprinklers to irrigate the 100x100 garden and weeds between rows were growing as much or more than the plants. i switched to sprinklers in half and soakers inteh other half a couple years ago and it was amazing the difference in weeds from one of teh garden to teh other. last year i went 100% soakers in my rowed areas and now i use a sprinkler only in the melon patch, since weeds there don't hurt anyway.

I'd say it is much more # 1 and especially #2 rather than the sun. #1 you really can't compare the growth of Early Girls to yours unless your's are early varieties too. #2 compost is primarily a soil amendment not a fertilizer. The nutrients in it aren't available to the plants unless you have sufficient soil bacteria to convert it and then not until after the soil bacteria convert them to a useable form. So while it will benefit your plants next year it can't do much for them now. I use loads of compost 2x a year in my garden but it is the compost added last year and the year before and the millions of beneficial soil bacteria that have developed in it that is feeding my plants, not what I just added. So your plants need to be fed. Something well balanced across the board with N-P-K and micro-nutrients. If you don't want to use synthetic fertilizers, fine. There are any number of organic fertilizers available that your plants will be able to benefit from immediately. Dave

I would be happier with wood floors, even though they do show dust more. And if it ends up that we stay here, I'd be happy with either 3 or 5 inch. Although now that you mention it, the 5 inch would probably take less time to clean with less grooves. We have to replace wood in the living room and hall, and most likely the carpet in the master. We had a water leak that damaged the current wood floor and stained the carpet in the bedroom. I didn't notice it until last night so don't know what the insurance company will say about that. Either way, it needs to be replaced. I don't want to live with a big wavy line in the middle of the floor. Posted by kirkhall : What is going in in new construction in your area? I'm not aware of any new custom homes near me. Mostly it's tract homes that call themselves custom because they are very nice (nicer than my house) and let the buyer pick the finishing touches. From the photos on Zillow it looks like most have carpet throughout, but a couple have wood. Houses in my neighborhood don't go on the market very often, but most of the ones I have been in that have been upgraded in the last 5 years have wood, at least in the living room. There is a nearby older neighborhood with high end custom homes with several for sale. Photos on Zillow show a few of them have wood floors, but it doesn't look like the others have been updated since the 80's or 90's. Posted by cmarlin20 I would be consistent throughout the house. That would be more important to me as a buyer. I don't like houses that change flooring, looks like piecemeal updating. We have carpet in the family room and bedrooms now and can't afford to replace that now, especially since it is in perfect condition - except the new stain in the master. Ideally, I would put wood everywhere, but from the photos of our comps, I don't think it will hurt us. This post was edited by marti8a on Fri, Aug 2, 13 at 12:39

Hold the phone here. Which bars are we talking about? If we are talking about the ones on the plastic standoffs up by the main breaker, they are electrically equivalent and you can connect the neutrals to whichever one you want. If the bonding screw is installed (i.e., this is the service disconnect), you can also land your grounds there. If you are talking a bar lower down by the breakers that is screwed directly to the case that is ALWAYS a ground bar. You can not land neutrals there. QO panels come with only the combined neutral/ground bars on the plastic standoffs. There's a screw that bonds this to the case if this is a main panel. If you want to use this as a subpanel, then you take that screw out and you have to mount a seperately sold ground bar to the case. There are tapped, raised holes for this on both sides. You can install one on either side or both.