Can you guess which country this home is in?
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Comments (41)Thanks for checking in Karin. Hoyess front door is better proportioned. But you make a good point about perhaps having a front patio instead of just a landing. As you can see from following photo, the landing is closed off on the side. I did a half-hearted try to see if I could get matching brick, and was told it came from Canada and is not stocked locally. If I was going to do something like that I would most likely have to get more brick. Might still be possible to get some if I looked harder, or inquired in Canada which is not that far. Still just mulling over ideas . . . RaeHelen's front walkway is GREAT! Imaginative approach and so nice and wide and welcoming. Adamante, not quite sure what your point is...? I know it's a long post to read all the way through, but previous owner ran out of money, hence no landscaping. He went bankrupt and we bought this house for cheap from the bank. Traded in a tiny, old tract home in San Jose,CA and got money back when we bought this. Of course I now live in the middle of nowhere, not near any good jobs but I'm sure happy with the trade. DH does not drive a lexus (your point??) but a beat up 98 Dodge truck with dents in it. I'm actually a little embarassed by the place, I bought it for the beautiful property - land, woods, and pond. Here's the landing from the other angle, showing how it's bricked off....See MoreFirst Tomato Is Breaking Color....Guess Which One
Comments (23)Mia, If I have short-day onions that mature in late May or early June, I put in southern peas or more okra if I'm thinking I didn't plant enough okra. If I have intermediate-day onions that mature a few weeks later, I might put in southern peas, or I might hold that area for fall tomatoes, or I might plant more summer squash if the squash bugs and SVBs are attacking the previously-planted squash plants. A lot depends on the weather. Some years (and I did plant this way this year in one bed), I plant my onions but leave an opening every 3' for a tomato plant. Later on, at tomato transplanting time, I come back and plug tomato transplants into those holes. Then, over a period of a couple of months, I harvest the onions closest to the tomato plants as green onions. (The ones I am growing to full size are in their own dedicated bed.) By the time the onions start bulbing up, I've already harvested the ones closest to the tomato plants, and the ones that are left are nice and big. By the time I pull up those onions, the tomato plants are expanding to take over that space. Just picture the onions as a groundcover underneath and between the tomato plants. This year I did it with tomato varieties that I expect will set fruit late in the summer: Phoenix, Merced and Mortgage Lifter, and I planted those plants late (just last week) to give the onions a good long time to grow before they have to compete with the tomato plants. There's millions of ways to squeeze more plants into less space, and combining onions with something that will take over the space after the onions are harvested is one way to do that. I also interplant my Irish potatoes and bush beans in alternating rows. The beans grow more quickly and are being harvested by the time the potatoes are starting to crowd them. Then, after about 3 weeks of harvesting beans, I yank out the bean plants and toss them on the compost pile and the potatoes fill up the space the bean plants had occupied. Dorothy, I figured you'd had ripe tomatoes in February. I probably will try some in at least a part of the greenhouse in late fall/early winter too, but I don't want to heat too large of an area, so I'll need to section off the tomato-growing area. The coldest my greenhouse got this winter was 23 degrees. That's not bad. I didn't have anything in it that night because I had moved the plants to the garage for the night. Dawn...See MoreCan anyone guess as to which one, or which type?
Comments (5)sounds like "rodney davey" to me. if that's the case, the variegation becomes less distinct as the season advances. it's a nice little plant and seeds about happily, but not so much as to be a problem. i think it is suggested that it's a form of v. japonica. perhaps someone could shed some light on that?...See MoreI guess you can call me a novice---
Comments (14)There are a lot of great ideas here! If I'm serving the soup/sauce that day, I usually just use a large stainless spoon but you lose too much of the broth/sauce that way--not just the fat. I've considered the fat separator but haven't bought one. I really like the All Clad spoon--I may pick up one of those. I think I would use it enough to make the price worth it. I also love the freezer bag trick and the ice bath for a quick cool down....See Morecarthiefintexas
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