Easiest way to remove mesh backing
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Comments (26)gonefishin, I should have provided a litte more information. Haha... I don't want to hijack this thread...but maybe people making these cages will also be interested in spacing too! This is my first summer to have my garden up and running. So I can't speak from any experience, but I hope that my soil and setup will work out very well. It should be very fertile soil. Here is my setup: Raised garden bed: 20 feet long x 40 inches wide x 16 inches deep (made with split-face cinderblocks 2 high). Soil: I made my own with some inspiration from Mel's mix and SFG. Here is my mix... 1/12 part vermiculite. 1/6 part Soil Pep (Mostly decomposed bark/wood chips). 1/6 part compost from landfill (made from trees, bark, grass clippings, various greens composted for 1 year+). 1/4 part Nutri-Mulch (Turkey manure composted with wood chips). 1/3 part Peat Moss. I actually took the time to mix all of the above with a cement mixer before filling my raised bed with it. So it is well mixed and hopefully provide a lot of nutrients. Drainage should be great as well as water retention. I tilled the soil under my beds (silty-clay loam) before adding my soil. Climate, I live in UTAH near SLC. We are very dry here and pretty warm in the summer (90's usually). I wonder if I should consider one of korney19's triangle cages. If those are 10 feet total then I assume they are a little over 3 feet per side. That would fit about perfectly in my 40 inch space... Thanks again for any help. And sorry to hijack this thread with some of my questions slightly off-topic! (Although hopefully helpful to others as well)...See MoreWhat is the easiest way to remove refried beans from the can?
Comments (22)I also just scoop mine out with a "spoonula", mine fits inside the can perfectly. Like Olychick, I'm finding that the cans have rounded bottoms now and so both ends cannot be removed from the can (like I used to do with that canned cranberry sauce my girls are so enamoured of). Dried ones are OK, but I don't like them well enough to seek them out, they aren't common in my grocery store. Most of the time I just use leftover pinto beans or whatever we used for our latest "pot of beans", just mash 'em up, add seasonings and plop into the pan. Just like that, refried beans. As for that Kuhn Rikon can opener, well, Elery has one. I've tried and tried to use it, and one day at his house was reduced to using my swiss army knife can opener to open a can of water chestnuts for dip, after 20 minutes of messing with that can opener from he!!. I've never, ever, ever been able to get it to work for me. Elery will patiently show me.....AGAIN....and I still can't use it. The instrument of torture is packed in a box in the pole barn somewhere and I have no intention of finding it! Oh, and his son can't make it work either, so I don't feel so badly. His suggestion was that I should fling the can out onto the driveway and run over it. (grin) Annie...See Moreclimbing roses in zone 4. how to overwinter the easiest way?
Comments (12)Heavens Moses, I appreciate the complements and confidence but I'd hate to have anyone assume whatever I say about roses is necessarily true or going to apply everywhere else. First of all, I still screw up regularly and sometimes spectacularly, and it can take me an embarrassingly long time to figure out why. For instance, I've discovered that what I've treated for many years as my zone 6 pocket on the south side of my house drops off in zones pretty dramatically after the edge of the house, and a lot of the roses I've claimed for years aren't hardy in my yard may actually be just fine if I planted them a foot or two to the west. Also, everyone that has chimed in on this thread and other similar threads has different input that is all both useful and true, even on occasions that we present opposite viewpoints. We reflect our own growing conditions, care and priorities, and it's in the variety and mix of all of the above that we're hoping to be useful to rose growers around the world. I simply can't overwinter New Dawn in several tries, but other zone 5 gardeners with New Dawn with the size and temperament of Tyrannosaurus Rex are astonished, and correct that it should grow fine in our zone. I don't use landscape fabric and counsel others on the tremendous headaches it can cause, but I've seen lovely postings of people with roses surrounded by landscape fabric and stone mulch that works fantastically for them. I think Carol has captured the essence of the question from Sue - she already has these roses, probably from local sources, and she's hoping to keep them alive since she's been justifiably frustrated in the past. By all means winter protection is an option and we all have our favorite methods that we have suggested. A better idea of your location and way of growing the roses will help us give you more specific suggestions for saving these climbers. You can pick whichever sounds like the least work to you, we're just reminding you not to get too frustrated if those methods don't work for the particular roses you have. Most garden stores sell what's well known rather than what's hardy or otherwise good for our zones, so that's why we're also giving you advice for the future about how to be less frustrated next year if your protection methods don't work for these roses. Of course if they do work, we welcome having you log in and tell all of us "experts" that our advice doesn't apply to you and you have a better strategy. We are happy to be wrong if it means that you're successful in growing roses the way you'd like to do. Cynthia...See MoreHow to remove mesh from the back of mosaic glass tile
Comments (37)I had wondered how your clean up was going. Then maybe go fo the car top coat paint then- it's the sturdiest of the clear paints for this sort of thing. And it comes in a little nail polish sized bottle with it's own brush, so fairly easy to use. Paint your backside after your epoxy is well done setting and you know your shank is firmly attached....See Moretexasfern
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