The Gathering Place: Chapter 2...
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Comments (51)I just wanted to add a few comments about the red plastic cups. I used to use them, and heated up an old kitchen fork over the gas burner in the kitchen to burn in the holes around the sides at the bottom. Fumes weren't very pleasant, though, and when there were a lot of them, I got rather impatient standing there at the stove for a long time. Maybe some of you know an easier way? Then I started using the white styrofoam drinking cups. You can buy a huge box of them cheaply at Sam's Wholesale Club. So much easier to poke holes - no fumes, they just poke easily with an old kitchen fork. There are advantages to using the red cups: they are more stable and don't tip like the styrofoam cups. This is a definitie plus! Advantages of white cups: 1) no time-comsuming poking of holes and no chemical fumes from burning plastic; and 2) very easy to write any amount of information on the sides with a indelible Sharpie pen; very economical when purchased in bulk. Big disadvanage: they are very tippy, and when one turns over in a pan of water - it could mean a disaster for seeds. You have to be very careful with them, and make sure the potting soil is very well saturated before planting the seeds in them. I am guilty of uttering quite a few bad words when they tip over. If anyone on this forum can invent a means of keeping them from accidentally tipping over, I'll be forever obliged! I also make a little mark on the top rim of the cup to show where I planted each seed. If I plant one in the middle, I draw a little circle on the side of the cup with a dot in it to show me that I also have a seed planted there. I do this because sometimes I just have 2-3 seeds planted there, sometimes 6-7, sometimes more than one cross (but that's not a good idea). I'd also like to include another little tip for those of you who will grow your seedlings in pots: if you live in a hot climate like ours, plant them in white pots only. If you don't have any, paint your black ones white, inside and out. Last year I acquired a number of large nursery pots, black, white and rust-colored. I even got big blue tubs at Lowe's. Planted loads of seedlings in all of them, and to my amazement, all seedlings in white pots far surpassed the others in plant growth and quality. The worst performing ones were those that were planted in the huge blue tubs. Most of them died. I think the potting soil had sunk too far below the top of the tub rim. Not sure though. The phenomenal growth rate of those planted in white pots so impressed me that from this day forward, all my daylily pots will be either painted white or white to begin with. Of course I live in southeast Texas, and our summers are terribly hot. This may not make a difference if you live in cooler climates. Several of our forum members have concurred with me on the results of seedlings grown in white pots that I have posted here at this forum in last year's......See MoreA worms tale....chapter 2
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Comments (28)there are lots of good cooks....but the problem is organization and the lessons that to figure out how much you need to feed 50 is not a recipe that feeds 6 multiplied out 8 and 1/2 times. My 2 principal side kicks are a former caterer and a dietitian who works in a nursing home. One knows amounts and the other food safe methods. I've learned a lot from them! As I remember there were different grades of that heavy aluminum stuff, and the colored stuff was not as heavy as some of the other stuff....and then there was Magnalite....super shiny and super expensive.... My mother bought me my first Le Cruset dutch oven....and a "friend" said...it's pretty but it will chip and my magnalite will always be beautiful. She was right...it did chip, and I literally wore that pot out...stirred it to death! I still have it....chipped and dinged though it is...but I learned how to make a great potroast with great gravy with that pot....and the Magnalite gal still hasn't learned! LOL! Linda C...See MorePiano saga chapter 2
Comments (48)Oh Daisyâ¦.I feel so badly for your dd! She must be so upset. I left a pillar candle burning in my powder room once after having guests and didn't' discover it until the next morning! Ever since then, I've only bought jar candles and now I keep a note, when I light candles, on my kitchen counter that just says "Candles" on it, to remind me to blow them out b/f I go to bed. Incidentally, I have a 15 y/o dd too. She is very big into pinterest for ideas decorating her room. About two months ago, I caught her burning a tea light in her room but after my own experience forgetting to blow it out, I told her no way was she to burn candles in her room. She was all upset with me, thinking I was overreacting, but I'm going to show her what you wrote so she can see how easily something can happen. I just want to give your dd a hug b/c I can only imagine how she is feeling. I'm so glad that you are all safe and that you already have a place to stay while you sort everything out....See Morebubbasgma
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