It looks like you don't have enough corn for good pollination. My understanding is that you need at least 4' x 4' of corn for decent pollination. Do you have a plan on how you will get to the plantings in the back for care & harvesting? I think you might want to consider some stepping stones at least. Consider also that your plants will bush out - when we grew cukes & beans on a trellis in a bed 2 feet from the fence they bushed out so much there wasn't much room to get behind them. Also, I have never grown okra, but I've heard the plant can be irritating to the skin. I think it gets pretty big, too. You might think about putting it together & somewhere you won't have to come into contact with it until you want to. Why are you mixing things up? Are you trying to avoid cross pollinating varieties, or going for aesthetics? Or is it for another reason? I would consider putting same plants together because they will have the same needs & you can more easily deal with them as a group. Beans are great & can be very productive. You could substitute them for the corn along the back. Perhaps you could do a block of a short variety of corn (so it doesn't shade other things too much) if you move things around a bit. I am not familiar with your growing area, so I'm not sure what else to add. I see you have cukes growing on the fence, but you have a line of them down into the bed. Will those get a trellis, or are you putting bush varieties in front? Definitely (IMO) put as much organic matter into your soil as you can. We have terrible soil here (sand), but my small gardens are looking lush. We found a local coffee shop that gives us bags of their compostable material regularly. We add that straight to the garden beds (coffee grounds, veggie scraps, egg shells) with some manure (we use quail because it is inexpensive & convenient). Also, we added in some peat moss & vermiculite the first couple of times we were turning over the beds. Hopefully someone with more expertise will give you some good tips. Best of luck!

Hi Sandra, Good information, #2 and #5 being the most important. In addition to # 2 telling us that Cardinal is the glass company, #5 tells us that Windsor made their own IGU's, since Cardinal doesn't use superspacer. You have Cardinal Glass in your doors that was put together into an IGU by Windsor. But we don't know for sure who tempered the glass, and frankly it doesn't really matter since you need it fixed no matter who did it. The supplier needs to chat with the window company and let them know that you still have belly haze and you feel that the glass is not acceptable. Either they need to fix it to your satisfaction (it can be fixed, it's actually pretty easy to do), or replaced with acceptable glass. For a bit more background, belly haze consists of microscopic scratches that occur as the glass rides ceramic rollers in the tempering furnace. During the tempering process the glass isn't laying nice and flat, it's actually changing shape and moving quite a bit. Belly haze occurs when the glass is concave (middle down, edges up) to the rollers and the weight of the glass sheet in the center is riding the rollers. If detected, belly haze can be eliminated by adjusting the settings on the tempering line, but it can be very difficult to detect in a factory setting. Unfortunately it does show up quite well in full sunlight. I am not sure what you were seeing as cloudiness (separate from belly haze), in your original post. LoE-366 will darken your glass a bit compared with clear glass, but haze and clarity parameters for all Cardinal coatings are very good and they should never give a cloudy appearance.

Hi guys! Just a little update that I'm very happy about! The wood stain arrived today (the sanding paper and top coat haven't yet, but should by the end of this week). I had just about enough sanding paper to really sand one of the drawers to perfection so I did a test on it with the stain... and the colour I picked is really close to the original! It's still a tiny bit more orangey, but overall I'm super pleased. I took the pictures 20min after painting so I don't think it's completely settled yet, and it still needs that matte clear water based topcoat, so it's not the final colour/finish yet. Just very happy I haven't ruined this piece and will be able to restore it to my liking :) Sanded, new stain, original (it looks more orange on the picture.. in real life it's almost indistinguisable)

I also have similar cabinets I chose to keep and work with because they are real wood and in great condition and quite frankly I didn’t want to spend $15k on new cabinets that aren‘t even real wood. . As I’m picking out new items I’m finding that they are really growing on me. Makes me feel like my Mom, she loves her oak! I’m doing a lighter beige colored counter and farmhouse sink.