86. Copper compounds will not be used in your plot more than once s year. Copper builds up from overuse. 87. Herbicide _____________ cannot be used at all. While you ca n buy it don't use it here. You will be prosecuted if caught and charged for site cleanup. 88. Area x of our garden was a _____________. No food crops will be grown in that area. 89. Use the composter. Turn it when you see it. 90. Drop food donations at ___________________. Call ______________. 91. Plots for 2014 are assigned as from direction ___________ as 1_________________, 2__________________… . 92. Use of our phone lists and email addresses for any purpose other than garden business is prohibited. Don't share them out. Don't give business email addresses please. 93. Accept cleanup requests gracefully. Request cleanups even more gracefully. 94. We report suspicious activity. 95. Do not leave personal items in the garden. 96. Don't contaminate the rain garden area. No fertilizer with manure, etc. A rain garden is a reservoir not a garden.

OK, so it is raining here in Mass. - I am now officially crying - so many pictures - so beautiful. I have six roses on the way - EBB TIDE. I planned to make a round or oval bed in my large front lawn. It is south facing - no fence - just lawn straight to the street. I have a little rock garden and that's all. I gardened for years and then got divorced. "THAT" house is a block away from where I live now. I feel so burnt out and so sad that I have to START ALL OVER AGAIN. And I am not accustomed to the weird layout of this house. If I put the roses in the center of a bed - what should I put around them on the outside of the circle? All your beautiful picture are of large spces or areas that are strictly roses - except winner of the award person - I can't even mention her name or I will start crying all over again. Please help - I am open to all suggestions. I live in metrowest Boston. Please send me a plan for a bed on a front lawn - full sun that can incorporate my 6 EBB TIDES? Someone take some pity M

Hi Katie, hmmm... I am not sure how it will look to have such a wide variety of drawer bases. What other drawers/sizes will be in the room? I think it should be fully drawn out and looked at as a whole before you proceed. I do think it could look jumbled depending on what else is going on. I like that your pots and pans drawers will be 33" wide and while I think 2 drawers is easier than three I think it is probably even more important to have your utensils and spices close by. I drew out the drawers you mentioned so that you can see what they will look like. I think it is a matter of personal feeling, but I tend to like things cohesive and, as stated, given what else is going on, there could be a lack of cohesion. I do think it is great that you are carefully planning where you will put things, so keep on with that.

Just one data point here. Most of the rules Livvysmom listed are at my neighborhood pool as well. 2. No Food, Glass, or Pets in pool area We have the same. People break the No Food part but the No Glass and No Pets are pretty strictly enforced for obvious reasons. 3. Persons having open cuts, sores, rashes or communicable disease are not permitted in pool. I don't think we have quite this rule because the kids always get cuts and the life guards put bandaids on them and send them back into the pool. 4. Children must be toilet trained, and if under 12 must be supervised by a responsible adult. Usually this has to be with health regulations for toilet training and insurance for the under 12. Our pool just changed the age to 12 (from 10) due to insurance. Swim diapers don't contain fecal matter so I'd rather children wearing swim diapers be banned than allowed. This is the first year my four year old son is allowed in the "big" pool because he did not toilet train until after he was three. 5. Adult (age 18 or over) hour is 3 pm-4 pm. 9. Only Coast Guard Approved personal flotation devices allowed, No swim fins, tanks, coins, floats or toys in pool area. The pool allows coins and toys (e.g., pool balls to toss around) but no fins, tanks (!), or flotation devices (waterwings and such). If a child needs a flotation device then the parent has to be with that child at all times. This is actually a safety issue so that parents don't get "lazy" about supervising a child who can't swim. People used to gripe about the flotation device rule until a 6yo child at another nearby pool drowned. He was wearing a flotation device of some sort, went to the restroom, took off the device and did not put it back on. Jumped into the pool. Drowned. The parent or adult in charge was not with the child at any point during this time. It's easy to blame the parent but I think putting a child in a flotation device gives a false sense of security for lots of people. 10. No horseplay, running, jumping or screaming. The extent of horseplay and screaming and jumping is usually up to the discretion of the life guards. Some are strict and some let the children (teens) play if they are the only ones in the pool area. 13. No Diving Obvious safety issues and insurance. We have a diving well. One member brought up the point that if the diving boards (low and high) were removed, the pool insurance would be alot less. The dive team parents objected to this notion.