MORE rain, I can't believe 3 weeks later and it's just been more of the same! Had over 1" the other night, probably have that today since it is pouring (though not overflowing the gutters since DH cleaned them out after water started pooling under the porch and coming into the basement). Planted a couple dozen pepper plants on Friday, still haven't put out tomatoes and the rest of the peppers (put them back in garage this AM, we've been going in and out so much I don't know if they know they're hardened off LOL). Tomato trellis is all up and I started digging for squash bed but yesterday the tomato trenches were wet on the lower end (a couple really wet) and the squash bed looked like a hog wallow. I did add some pebbles to the bottom of 1 trench, dug out farther for drainage, and added some partially-composted wood chips and more top soil to all the trenches. We'll see how it looks Monday when the rain stops. I don't know if I'm even going to plant squash this year - though I finally started 6 cukes inside the other day. I bought 2 rain barrels - didn't hook them up, but just left the tops off this AM - we'll see how much they collect in 48 hrs! Need to get the sauerkraut washed out of them. I'm just hoping I can plant out 60 tomatoes and about 30 peppers b/t Monday and Thurs - then the rains come again! With the drought and the floods in the South, and all this rain in the Northeast, is anybody going to be able to grow any crops this year? CA doing OK? How's FL? Are we all going to have to live off canned goods for the next year?

You got a good deal there, last fall I was looking for the HL stuff but the place I go to were sold out. Let us know how it works Nic ;) Good luck! Sharon

Do you have a lease? Is your lease up? If not, if I were you, I would send a notarized, certified, return reciept letter with the 30 day notice. As things stand your only proof of the 30 day notice is the phone. You can say the conversation happened, your landlord can say it never happened.

yw .... lets see what others have to add ... you need to expose the root flare .... https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=tree+root+flare&iax=images&ia=images you can do that with a shovel.. try not to scar the tree or roots ... i would do it sooner.. rather than later ..... the bigger the better on how wide ... you can always build the retaining wall ... tree well later .. when budget allows ... the cost of the supplies will probably be much less than tree removal ... ken