How do you cut your water use?
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How do you cut your own sweet potato slips?
Comments (10)Thanks so much for all the advice and information grandad, toogreen, farmerdilla and wayne. It sounds easy indeed, now I wonder why we did not try this before. In the worst heat of the summer, only the okra looked good last year. I cannot believe that plant, flowering when it is 107 F!!!! crazy plant (I love it). This year we are adding cow peas and sweet potatoes to the hot weather vegetable clan. Why not? might as well take advantage of what grows well here and now. We cannot grow parsnips or cherries, so we might as well grow sweet potatoes. We have several roots (tubers?) starting, I only showed one, but we have white sweet potato and red sweet potatoes. They have different types of leaves, as shown in Farmerdilla's picture. Farmerdilla, your picture is nice, thanks for posting it. We might do a bed just like that, still have a few recycled pieces of lumber to use for garden beds. I think that 500 slips is a bit much for us, we might do from 12 to 20 slips. Since each averages about 6 sweet potatoes, this should give us plenty for feeding two not too large people. Besides, we are also growing other 'starchy' root crops, regular potatoes (to be harvested soon), jerusalem artichokes, chayote (the root is edible) and some weird tropical ones (elephant ears types). I take it that the level of development shown in the pictures I posted is just about right for taking the slips? not too large but large enough? or perhaps they could be 'harvested' as slips a little younger? We still have them in water but we will plant them in the ground, or in pots, this coming weekend....See MoreHow do you water your container?
Comments (10)Rain and snow getting into your containers is good as the mix will stay moist. That moisture helps with stratification as well as germination. I have not had any problem with too much rain or snow getting into containers. Perhaps in areas where it rains more that could be a problem. Most springs I have needed to water my containers. I tried using a wand to water inside through the jug opening which didn't work too well. Either it pushed seeds to the sides or created holes in the mix or didn't get enough in to moisten completely. I also used a spray tank so I could put the wand into the container opening but that took too long as I had hundreds of containers. Bottom watering works the best for me. I use a container that holds many jugs at the same time. I put enough water in the container to just below the level of the mix in the jug. Put in the jugs and go do something else. Return and repeat until all are watered. Once the tops are off and the seedlings are growing well I water with a wand set on light shower....See MoreHow do you cut your quilt pieces
Comments (11)If I'm using only one block, I will make a test block and make notes on mistakes or problems to watch for. If the test block doesn't work out, I cut one more and try again. If all blocks will use the same fabric, then I will cut out all the pieces needed for the quilt (plus a few extra), stack them up and start piecing. If they are to be scrappy I cut out for one block at a time. FYI, most of mine are scrappy and lap or twin size, so there isn't a great deal of investment. Test blocks are used for pillows, or sampler type quilts that don't have all one size blocks. beverly...See MoreReally, do you use your hot water dispenser?
Comments (26)I use my instant hot every day. We got our first one about 15 years ago when I had granite installed and it was suggested (had only heard a little about it before) and it finally stopped working about 6 to 8 months ago so we got another one. Then, we just did a full gut kitchen remodel and we were without it for about 7 weeks...really missed it! When we had the new kitchen installed, we did get the hot/cold combo unit (so my folks will be getting the one that was only 6 to 8 months old). We have R/O water and it runs through the unit for both the instant hot and the cool water. The tap has a push down tab on the left with a red tip for hot and one with a blue tip on the right for cool. We got the Insinkerator HC-WAVESN-SS. It looks fine and I really like not having "three" faucets at the sink like we did before (regular faucet, R/O faucet and instant hot faucet). Many of the dispensers do NOT come with a tank, you have to buy that separately. We were happy to see that ours is one of the few that DOES include a stainless steel tank and it says it can dispense 60 cups of instant hot water per hour. I found it at Lowe's online only (at least where we live in Arizona) and thought the fast shipping was a bit much. The Great Indoors price was upwards of $200 higher but they price match plus give you 10% of the difference off plus give you free shipping, so that's what we did. Like others, I use it for pasta, tea, jello (boil it first, of course but it boils so much faster). One thing I do daily is fill a small 1 cup size glass prep bowl about half full and put in my wedding ring and tennis bracelet. Just putting them in the hot water for a few minutes each day keeps them sparkling clean and I don't have to be quite so careful about washing my hands with soap or not letting my ring touch hand lotion when I put it on after applying lotion....See Moreglycera
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