I have seen Ortho Systemic recommended by one of the nursery owners on this forum.I spray it on the leaves and around the base of the plant.This gets watered in sooner or later.I think Ortho works both ways.Soil and plant. It seems to me a dilute solution,added to soil,would be ok but you would lose the absorbtion thru the leaves.Just my 2 cents worth.

Bumble, you might be my DD's biological mom LOL. Her (self imposed) goal this summer is to cook more "real meals." She already bakes a lot, with some supervision, and makes pancakes independently. Her real obsession these days is duct tape. She has made a variety of wallets, purses, etc. She usually makes at least one a day. She has probably 25 rolls of various colors and patterns at the moment. I honestly don't think I could make one of those wallets myself, and I'm fairly crafty...or used to be! She has her own glue gun. Tish, like you say, she's not a great speller or much of a reader but she can read complicated directions or a recipe and figure it out no problem, so she's all set!

I forgot to say that I graduated in 1980. I think I paid the couple hundred dollars myself. I was working at the time. One of my best friends who graduated in VA went with her class to Cancun, Mexico. She graduated 2 years after me and her parents paid thousands for her to go! Now kids go to Europe and Aruba. They also have more elborate proms, only a few "rich" kids had limos back when I was in high school. Now everyone gets one. I'm dreading the day when Lauren starts going to proms. I've already told her she'll be wearing the same dress to all of them or we'll be buying them used and cheap. And no limo.

Technicolor, that is a great idea to add space if you have a standard size opening. I may do that in another room. Our master bedroom has an 18' wide opening for the closet, so we need a way to hang multiple doors without a frame. Sochi, I would love to see pictures of the whole wall, as well as the hardware. I was planning on using wood veneer doors (rift cut white oak stained gray to tie in with gray tones used elsewhere, or maybe walnut to match the vanity), but using standard slab doors painted an accent color (a shade of grayish blue, likely) probably would be faster and cheaper to order. (Most of the walls in the house are painted Dunn Edwards Fossil - an off-white with a slightly cool, taupish-gray undertone, with a couple of accent walls in shades of blue.) What size are your doors? If I get rid of the custom built-in "armoire" in the center, I could use 3 pairs of 36" doors to span the space, with less expensive drawers, shelves etc. behind the doors. If I keep the 4' center section, I have 84" openings on each side. I could do each side with a single pair of 42" wide doors (or 40" doors if I use 2" thick vertical "columns" at each end like in the kitchen). I could also use four 20-21" wide doors for each opening, which might look nicer, but will cost a lot more to buy twice as many pivot hinges plus the contractor's time to install the extra hinges. We do have enough floor space to open wider doors, so it is just an aesthetic and cost based decision. What do you think would look better?