If the information is not known by other forum members (but I think I read on here where it is 11 gauge) you may have to do some measuring yourself. 11 gauge is .125" (1/8" in fractions). That is the American Standard Gauge dimension, BUT.....I found that there is a Manufacturers Standard for 11 guage that permits the use (or presence) of metal as thin as .119" to still be "called" 11 gauge. My guess on this is that bending and forming (shaping) of .125 steel can result in the metal being "stretched" and thinned to something less. So long as the metal does not get thinned to a value less than .119", the OEM can still legally say it is 11 guage for marketing purposes. Here is a very short list of gauge thicknesses of steel plate. I will give the American Standard as "A S" and the Manufacturers Standard as "M S". 9 guage= AS .156", MS .149" 10 gauge= AS .141", MS .131" 11 gauge= AS .125", MS .119" 12 gauge= AS .109", MS .104". You may have to measure your frame (or someone else's if you are planning to purchase and just want this data for choosing) with a micrometer or a digital calipers. Also available are "thickness gauges" for measuring metal plate, wire, and pipe sizes. These are real cheap and are just a thin "card" of metal or plastic with holes and slots of the reference dimension punched out so you just fit your metal sample into the hole or slot that fits best and read the size on the gauge for that hole or slot.

Back, I'm thinking about 2004-2006, Kimmsr posted a few brilliant paragraphs on pH going into buffer capacity, alkalinity, CEC etc. I think I even complemented Kimmsr in a follow up. The post I am thinking of must have been a copy/paste because I don't recall seeing anything comparable since. The remark about rainwater not having a pH of 7 is correct but not relevant to gardening because rainwater has almost no buffer capacity and the ions causing ''acid rain'' have been largely removed. For the OP I suggest this. Take a container of water, any water as water has near zero buffer capacity. Add some of your blueberry soil to the water and shake it up and let it set for several day shaking occasionally. Test that water with you new pH meter. Is it now closer to what you would want for your blueberrys?

Lots of rain here also. With lots of rain and strong winds that felt like tornado weather last night. Lightening and thunder also, one flash and boom really almost on top of us in the middle of the night, freaked me right out. We have needed the rain. Everything will look so good after this. I hope it adds to our water table also. FlowerLady

My yard is now semi-dry with some of the lowest areas still holding a few inches of water. The tropical desert island is no longer an island its just a plain old dirt mound again. One of the positives of all the rain is my Valemcia Pride tree is starting to put out buds and blooms. My little 2 foot high whipstick Rosigold tree has about 4-5 branches coming right out of the top that now look like they may be buds and not branches. Its the little tree that thought it could...but its so small it will have to wait until next year though. My new Graham tree just put out several nice buds, its big enough that I'll see if it holds a few fruit. The small Carrie tree is budding the best but once the fruit form I'm going to take them off it and let the tree mature another year before it fruits. My Angie looks like its putting out a few buds and its big enough that I'm going to wait and see what happens with it. My Pickering tree seems to be doing a lot of nothing so far. The Neelum tree is still surrounded by its own water moat so I'm not exactly sure what its doing and the Tebow tree is still a whipstick although it has a few new bumps forming up top.