Making your own cabinets? Or very DIY kitchens?
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Comments (21)Hi Jane, Oh yes, what a mess it was! Oh no, not to worry, don't feel bad Jane. It's really my own fault. Even if I didn't get a response on this forum yet, I'm sure I would have used the first recipe anyway. From what you said, I used a ton more veggie oil than I should have and should have known better then to use soooo much. I used 1 cup in a spay bottle, mixed with 2 c of water, some dish soap and I threw in a decent gulp of rubbing alcohol, then shook it up real good. The bottle had to be constantly shaken while spraying because the oil kept separating. It was a very DUMB move on my part! I then hung the plants down in the basement (no carpet) so they had a place to drip and they did, just s little. Anyway, everything is all better know, plants are washed down, and the sprayer, well, that took a little more cleaning but, it's clean. I don't think anything on the plants survived all that oil. It was like the gulf oil spill and the valdez all over again in my sink! lol. First oil mix attemp... Live and learn! Billy Rae...See MoreDo-It-Yourself Wall-O-Water
Comments (29)For a couple of years I had a garden spot away from my house, with no water supply available so if I wanted to supplement rainfall I had to haul gallon jugs of water. To make my watering efficient, when I planted my peppers & tomatoes in the spring, I dug down and buried empty gallon plastic jugs, one between each plant. I had poked 4-5 holes in the bottom of each, of course, and left the caps on until later in the summer. Once the weather warmed, and after a good soaking rain, I mulched the beds 4-6" deep with chopped leaves, being sure to cover the tops of the (so far empty and still capped) bottles to protect them from the sun since I had found that the plastic degrades and becomes brittle when exposed to the sun. (In previous years, just cultivating around the bottles inevitably resulted in my breaking the tops off by midsummer.) When the weather reached a point where I actually needed to water, I cleared the mulch away for the moment and poured a gallon of water into each buried bottle. I set the cap loosely back atop each bottle to keep the leaf debris from falling in and clogging the exit holes in the bottom, then pulled the mulch back up to protect the plastic. I did not care about how long it took for the bottle to empty-- it seemed like a gallon or two a week per plant was sufficient, and the best part is that by burying the bottles the water went right down to the root zone where it was most effective. As for using wall-o-waters, since I had gotten some free from a friend, I tried them last year with 3 really early tomato plants I started specifically to experiment with. While they survived a good bit of frosty weather, in the end the plants I had started weeks later and planted out a month after the first ones when the weather had warmed quickly caught up to the wall-o-water ones and all the tomatoes pretty much bloomed & set fruit at the same time & rate. So my conclusion is that it was satisfying to my eager gardener's soul to be out planting early, but it really made no difference in overall plant performance. I have found the same to be true with early plantings of such things as peas and salad crops, too. Early plantings may survive, but later plantings quickly catch up and may even surpass earlier ones that have been stressed by the weather....See MoreMake your own pill pockets!
Comments (5)The cheapest, easiest-to-make pill pocket that your dog will never refuse can be made from cooked beef liver. Here's how. Cook a pound or so of beef liver in a little oil. Include the liquid in the package. Do not salt or season. Let the cooked liver cool and cut into pieces. Put it in a food processor and process until it looks like canned dog food. Wrap pills in this paste. Form it into an oval-shaped ball with the pill in the center. Keep the pocket small so the dog swallows it whole without chewing. Store left-over liver in a Ziploc bag in the fridge....See MoreMake own cabinets, but order doors?
Comments (13)our trim carpenter built our pantry, mudroom cubbies and four closets. i need to get 52 doors and drawer fronts ...carpenter will build the boxes. we had the guy who did our kitchen price out the doors from conestoga including the hardware and i almost fell over. the quote was $7800! i can't say i was all that surprised though. don't know how much he was marking them up. i found a company on the web; you can quote the job immediately and they have an array of different wood frames to choose from. i just signed up yesterday and all 52 pieces came in under $2500, delivered. mine are all unfinished, with a mixture of paint and stain grade. so while i don't have any experience yet, we are in the same boat! i've looked at a few different net resources and i really appreciate the ease of use of this particular place. the pricing seems reasonable -although it could be that it just sounds better than almost $8K! i've been emailing with questions and i always get a response from the same person and even got a response to an email i sent out last night at 10:30. i'll post the link for you, but please understand as i said, my doors and drawers are just in the quote stage. i haven't ordered anything yet although i plan to place the order early next week. i can let you know how everything turns out. good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: cabinetnow.com...See MoreCindy103d
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