Is 12' deep shelves deep enough??
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SFGs deep enough for sunflowers?
Comments (8)I agree with tishtoshnm. One of the other problems that I would expect with Mel's Mix for sunflowers is one of the greatest benefits of Mel's Mix - the friability. The taller the plant, the greater the need for a strong medium for the roots to anchor in. Mel's Mix is too friable to allow the roots alone to hold the plant in place, which is why he recommends support. In my own opinion, if you had a clay soil under your box, and it's open, the roots will work their way down and into the clay to support themselves. The plant won't get taller than it can support if allowed to grow on its own. The sunflowers should be able to anchor themselves if the depth of soil is available. 6 inches of Mel's mix, and probably even 12 inches, isn't going to be enough to support a plant over 6 feet tall without help. "Natural" soil on the other hand should be able to handle it with no problem. I keep my boxes open on the bottom, so that I don't have to concern myself with these details! ;-) Good luck....See MoreAre 6-inch deep boxes deep enough? esp for FL?
Comments (9)I've found that the recommended 6 inches dries out way too fast for my liking. I live in Utah, probably about 2 hours away from Mel, and I find myself watering it too much. I like 1-3 times per week, the less the better, and maybe that's my problem. I don't want to water every day :). I'm going to add another 6 inches to the box and it should be a lot better. I didn't really take care of the SFG this year. I started it around May thinking that we wouldn't be able to have our regular garden for corn and potatoes/tomatoes and whatever else we decided to grow, so I tried the SFG. It turns out we had a new spot tilled for the garden and I neglected my SFG. I didn't even get a trellis up for the peas/beans/tomatoes! I've had such a great crop of everything so far from both the garden and the SFG, even though the SFG was pretty neglected. I didn't quite fill up all the squares either, so that could have been why it was drying out fast. I have probably harvested around 150 pounds of tomatoes, from 4 plants! These are all in the garden. My aunt told me at the beginning of the season that she would can any tomatoes that we didn't use and give us however many cans she wanted. I don't think she was expecting such a huge harvest... I have some cherry tomatoes in the SFG, and since I didn't trellis them, they aren't very easy to pick. What I can reach has been more than I expected though. Well that was completely random, but I hadn't updated my garden progress since I first planted the SFG....See MoreAre 12' deep cabinets with inset drs deep enough?
Comments (2)How deep you need the cabinets is your preference. If you want to make sure that your current dishes fit, you should measure the diameter of your plates and the thickness of the cabinet doors you ordered as well as the depth of the cabinets. The thickness of the doors is the inset and that has to be subtracted from the depth of the cabinet to get the true *usable* depth of the cabinet. The cabinet maker suggested that I have cabinets deep enough to fit a 12" plate, even though my current plates are only 11". The cabinets are 13.5" deep with a 3/4" inset (thickness of door). So, theoretically I could fit 12.5" plates if I wanted to. Hope that explanation made sense....See MoreIs my ceiling deep enough for recessed lighting?
Comments (1)I'd go with low profile surface mount fixtures, probably LED. Are you planning to insulate the ceiling?...See Morearkansasgal
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