Preventative Measures - A Success Story
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Comments (9)The damaged bulb was purchased on April 12th and planted later that same day. The second photo is probably a less than a week later (I believe I cleaned it up on the following Tuesday or Wednesday - so about April 15-16). I believe that there is just 1 scape with 4 potential blooms (you are seeing a Picotee behind it), but it's looked promising for the past couple of weeks. Finally, it bloomed this past Tuesday, May 6th, so only 3.5 weeks from purchase to bloom. I actually shed a couple of tears over this bulb...stupid me. Partially in fright that I had introduced some wicked virus into my collect, and partially mad at myself for not checking what I bought better (but it was hidden behind the cardboard so I wouldn't have been able to see what I was buying...I'm glad it had such a beautiful outcome. K...See MoreCauliflower success story
Comments (5)Congratulations! Cauliflower is one of the more difficult vegetables to grow in our area. I bought plants from Campbell road Nursery here in Raleigh in September and they are just beginning to form small heads. I have wire hoops over them already and will add frost cloth and plastic when needed to prevent them from freezing. My biggest challenge with starting these plants so early (in addition to the heat) is insects. How did you keep them from being devoured by the slugs and caterpillars?...See MoreAny success or horror stories about drilling holes in sink?
Comments (11)paint chips - I vaguely recall reading a post on IkeaFans a while ago from a guy who cut (with a hole saw on his drill, I think) more faucet holes into the Domsjo (might have been one hole for a side sprayer). You may want to do a search of IkeaFans to see if you can find this "modification"/post. If I recall correctly, he was very nervous about doing it because he was afraid of cracking, but it turned out great and he was very pleased/happy. On a seperate note, I have had a Domsjo sink for about a year now in my "camp" kitchen (we are doing a huge remodel of most of our house DIY while living in the house so our garage camp kitchen is pretty fancy; we will be using it for yet another year (2 years total), I think). The Domsjo is a great sink. We have treated it pretty harshly and it still looks new. Just as an aside, we also modified the Domsjo base cabinet to have two 18" side by side drawers on the bottom with two doors above the drawers (i.e. between the apron sink and the drawers). This modification was relatively easy and I love having the two extra drawers. Probably more than you ever wanted to know (and not your original question) ... sorry. Good luck....See MoreGranite Installation Success Stories, Please Share
Comments (6)I am a fabricator. My shop, which is mid-sized, does several hundred jobs per year. We have a handful of jobs each year that encounter difficulty. Sometimes it because our staff consists of people and people make mistakes. We have a formal quality management program so we don't make a lot of them and when one does occur we remedy the situation as quickly as possible. Another reason a job can run into difficulty is that we're working with a natural material with an EXTREMELY wide range of physical characteristics. The softest stone we work with is a little harder than jello and the hardest is a little softer than diamond. For example, not every edge can be put on every stone. Since there are 30+ edge profiles and thousands of different stones no shop can know the outcome of every combination. Occasionally even sn experienced shop like mine runs into difficulty with a particular stone or application. A third reason is that a small fraction of the public is crazy. Ask anyone that deals with the public on a regular basis and they will have horror stories about people that are impossible to please and accept no responsibility for the problems they create themselves. (example: Mrs. Smith changes her stone selection 5 times and then, at install, says we have the wrong stone. Even when presented with documentation regarding the selection she insists the fabricator made a mistake. People like that suck.) So... if you want a first rate job with with minimal risk of difficulty do your homework and find a good fabricator. It's not likely to be the cheapest one you can find but it doesn't have to be the most expensive either....See Morebevangel_i_h8_h0uzz
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