House Settling - When to mend - When to worry
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Comments (6)Presuming your soil drains as it should and holds sufficient moisture, I would suggest mounding your bare roots with planting mix. Cover the bud union and canes so only the top inch or two protrude from the mulch. It may be easier if you take corrugated cardboard and cut it into strips which will permit you to create a cylinder large enough to slide over the canes of the plant. You want it tall enough to be sunk into the ground an inch or two and cover the tops of the canes. Fill this will a loose mulch or planting mix and keep it moist. Your bare roots may be struggling to retain enough moisture to remain alive, so they possibly aren't getting enough to actually grow. By keeping them dark, cool and damp, they have a better chance of absorbing the moisture they need to grow. Those conditions encourage root growth. Warm, dry, sunny conditions favor cane and foliage grow, which is an intense stress on plants which haven't already developed feeder roots. Soaking them for several days in a bucket of water prior to planting also helps. You want to water the cylinders to keep the planting mix damp. If it settles and exposes more of the plants, add more mix and water more. You only want the top inch or two of the canes exposed until new growth begins from the cane ends. As they begin developing, you can begin gradually removing the planting mix from the cylinders so you acclimate the plant to the hotter, drier, more extreme conditions. Kim...See MoreWhen to start kitchen renovations in a new house?
Comments (20)Work on your layout as a hobby until you get it right. Post it here for some impartial help. Once you get that worked out enough to know the scope of the project, then dream a while on the finishes. Many times, that's the most flexible portion of the project, and on a long project, a lot of people are already tired of what they picked by the time that the end of the project rolls around. Be sure that your choices aren't just "design ADD" where "oooo I LOVE every zen modern kitchen that I see on Houzz.....look there's a Tuscan one too!" It's fine to have an infatuation with many different looks, but only marry the one that suits your home's bones, and your family's living style. Minimalism is my personal sought after style, and it works with my house, but not as much with my design samples everywhere just this side of hoarding lifestyle. I'm hoping that redoing my home office will help with that, but I'm trying to be realistic by making sure that every single piece of furniture that I own will hold "stuff" and keep it from becoming clutter. Be similarly realistic about your home's bones and living style. A winery in Tuscany might be your retirement home sometime in the future, but decorating a 1980s Colonial Revival like it's that winery will not work with those bones. Maybe a painting of Tuscany, and use some of the colors with traditional wood cabinetry could work....but not the overly faux glazed and faux distressed and grapes and leaves and olives and wrought iron wine caves...etc....See MoreSo when you are ready to move to your new home...
Comments (18)I second getting the floors done before you move in. I wish we had done that in our tv room. The carpeting is 10 year old builder's grade stuff with a couple stains on it. We didn't care when we bought because we knew we'd be upgrading the carpet in a couple years once are kids are less likely to spill stuff on it. Well, now we have a HUGE entertainment center with a projection tv in that room, and there's no WAY that thing will be moving anytime soon. Which means no redoing that carpet until we move out of the house. Fortunately, we can recarpet the stairs and second floor (which is that same 10 year old builder's grade), and figure we'll just give a carpet allowance for the TV room to the buyers we sell to in the future. As for paint, I recommend waiting until you are in the house. In our old house, we lived with the nasty wallpaper until we decided what we wanted to do in each room, and then we tackled stripping the wallpaper and painting. We did a room every few months until it was all done....See MoreSpatula contamination worries when cooking ground beef?
Comments (52)"Perhaps that is your experience, certainly not mine." What I'm saying is that your testimonials about people not getting sick from unsafe food handing and storage are not scientifically valid. No testimonials are. The WHO has done studies, including the one I mentioned previously, about the burden of foodborne illnesses in various regions of the world. They, and multiple other researchers, state that foodborne illness is a significant problem in China, Japan, and surrounding areas. They state that food handing and storage are a major factor in foodborne illnesses. I didn't mention anything about MY personal experiences because testimonials aren't scientifically valid. If you want to know, just for fun, about my personal experiences, we had a family friend who died of liver flukes that he picked up from eating improperly prepared food in one of the areas you stated was a place where they care less about food safety and so you believe the people there are healthier. Your friend at the Rockefeller center was obviously giving you a simplistic explanation about how vaccines work. I completely disagree that food safety practices in the US are excessive. There are an incredible number of cases of foodborne illness that occur each year in the US. It is well-known that the vast majority of them are not reported. You are entitled to your opinions. But, your opinions are just that and they are not at all in line with what the science actually tells us. I do not intend to get into a protracted discussion with you. I just don't have the time, inclination, or energy. I also doubt that you are open to anything I would say, anyway. I actually never thought YOU would listen. I've said what I wanted to say, and I said it so that other people here can read what I wrote and then think about things...I just could not leave your pseudoscientific statements to be unchallenged....See Morefishcanswim
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