Leaves are required to replenish the bulb for next year's flower show... adding a little bulb food to your bulb bed would be a good thing to do, unless you've recently amended the soil... in which case, they'll have plenty of nourishment available. My bulb bed contains tulips and other spring blooming bulbs, and in between those, I planted perennials that keep the show going all summer, not to mention hide the bulb leaves as they begin to fade and turn brown... With all the other flowers blooming and growing around the tulips, you never notice that the leaves aren't green and lively! There's nothing you really need to do with tulips once they're finished blooming, beyond allowing the leaves to photosynthesize food for the bulb, itself.

Adult mango trees can take brief periods down to 28 F. without any significant damage. Younger trees can be more sensitive to cold, but absent a hard freeze, even a heavy frost won't usually kill your mango tree. New foliage that is not hardened off will burn off with cold windy conditions. Of course, if you can avoid subjecting your tree to frost, the tree will do much better in the long run. Frost in the Tampa area and even in the Fort Lauderdale area is not that uncommon. We have had 3 or 4 fairly heavy frosts each year over the past two years. We had a warmer number of years before that, but the present frost occurence represents a much more normal weather pattern than was the warmer, less frost occurring years. Harry

IâÂÂm in Florida, just sold my house, and was worried about the appraisal verses the contract price. A house down the road around the same square foot as mine appraised at a certain amount but it had a pool. I wanted my appraisal to come out the same even though I did not have a pool. My house had better quality new stuff than that house. We did many resent upgrades and I provided a very detailed list that included the way and what with the interior cabinets were finished, type of glides, name of fencing type and the process the manufacturer used for the backed on finish, grade of granite or marbleâ¦you name it, it was all listed in detail. I also detailed how well maintained our home was and provided documentation for that. Although my house is only thirteen years old it was mentioned in the appraisal report something to the affect that it was comparable to a new semi-custom to custom home. So yes a list will help to a point. Square footage is the main gig though. My house ended appraising the same as the pool home. I did have to come down three and a half grand from the contract price though. ThatâÂÂs a common thing at the moment with the larger homes. The smaller more affordable homes are so sought after at this time (limited listings) IâÂÂm seeing more people cough up the extra cash just to nab one.

i recently installed tongue and groove beadboard in our kitchen and used the following saws to get the job done: table saw, compound mitre saw and jigsaw i probably could have gotten away without using the compound mitre saw, but it came in quite handy when i was doing the trim moldings. i also used it quite a bit to cut the board lengths instead of using the table saw, it just seemed easier to me. the table saw came in extremely handy for ripping the boards that needed to be cut to a different width (such as in corners). the jigsaw was irreplaceable for cutting out the openings for the electrical outlets.