I've had a Sonoma Cast Stone farmhouse style sink in my kitchen for 10 years. Expensive and cool looking. Several years ago however, it started to deteriorate around the drain. Then it failed on the bottom surface and looks just awful. Looks dirty when I know it can't be. I've reached out twice to the company for help - as soon as they see pictures they 'go away' as in no response. We also have a Sonoma Cast stone sink in our powder room. It's held up great because it gets hardly any use. My advice: DO NOT get one of these in the kitchen or anywhere else where you'll use it often! It won't hold up!

Hi! I have this question, too... how does Nantucket Gray do in a low light, north facing room?

My father-in-law had Meniere's disease that caused him to retire a few years early from being a Minister of the Gospel. His specialist told him he had no cure for the condition, but since it seems to be associated with the inner ear, it will reduce with hearing loss, and that is what happened to him. One day when at an airport on his way to a convention, an attack struck him. The airport security was convinced that he was either drunk or high on something and locked him up in the drunk tank, and would not let him out until his wife came to pick him up. He was unable to convince them that he had a medical condition that was the cause. This episode made him consider retiring a few years early.

Bluemoonlight. because of what you said I bought two Negronne and I am going to give one a try in ground. I think it's too late to let any one fig tree to get established but I will plant as soon as spring hits and keep them asleep on my cold porch for now. That dark fruit looks so tasty and sweet! Thanks everyone, it's so good to see some have having productive trees grown in winter climates as cold as I get! Dee, I plant mine up almost against my home on the side that faces south and out of wind to create a different zone for it. Probably a zone 7 or even better on how well I insulate it. Then I will tie all the branches together once they are bare for the winter and then wrap insulation around them from the top to the ground, then put a plastic bag over the insulation to keep it dry. I also mulch mine about a foot up all around the trunk and 2 feet away all around. That's ii. That is my way. Many different ways to do it. Some use chicken wire and make a circle that fits over the tree that allows you to fill leaves all the way to the top and then mulch the trunk area in. This works too. I have done that. As long as the ground does not freeze hard and that you protect the branches and trunk from sub- 0 weather and the cold nasty winds, you should be fine. We are lucky that trees go dormant and need to during this time. You should try it.