3 weeks into my soapstone install and I am left scratching my head
julesavl
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Comments (150)Hi, everyone! Mmmm, apple cider doghnuts. I've only had those once, and we ate the whole bag within 15 minutes of leaving the orchard. They're scrumptious! Ollierose, I try to know the botanical names for the plants I grow, (or at least list them with it) so I only look up botanical names that seem really familiar, because those may be seeds I can send in and I'm just not making the right mental connection. If I don't recognize it at all, it's not something I can send in. If you want to look things up, the fastest way I've found is 1. have the google toolbar 2. type the Latin and the word plantfiles 3. read all about it. That's also my first step in deciding if I want a plant, but I always look them up on a few sites, because they all have inaccuracies sometimes. I like to increase my chances for trades by making it easy for the trader to know that I have what they want, or they have what I want, by using both common names and latin. Except I'm sure I've neglected to do that completely :) It's another cold, grey day, and I have so much garden cleanup to do, still perennials to get in the ground, plus a couple hundred bulbs--but all I want to do is sit in front of the woodstove with my tiny kitten!...See MoreScratching my head on this one...
Comments (48)It should make no difference from which side the door opens. If someone can climb a stair they can get to the other side of the door. But I would be very careful about mats and throw rugs in the entry path. Not lifting feet enough is the cause of most falls by the elderly and it is not something they are aware of. I have an aluminum ramp to my front door landing and a small aluminum ramp that can be placed at the door threshold. Be aware that the elderly are always slowly losing mobility although it is usually not noticeable to anyone who sees them often. While you are worrying about steps and handrails you should also be thinking about where the future ramp will go. A ramp could be placed at the left side of the steps if the column were not there. I predict you will remove the post some day for that reason. Now is the time to ask the builder how he framed the overhang. I will bet he framed it to not need a column in order to speed construction as evidenced by the construction photo. Don't ask the architect; its highly unlikely he knows what the builder did. Also be aware that the ramp slope does not need to meet an accessabilty code standard; for a private residence it is reasonable to assume that someone in a wheelchair would have assistance or use a motorized chair. That has been my experience in the 13 yeas I have had a ramp....See MoreI'm away for 3 weeks - how to keep my tomatoe plants watered?
Comments (26)I'm with Humsi 100%. Leaving a healthy garden with a 10 day weather forecast, 3weeks is not such a big deal with a plan. bronxbill just asked about tomatoes. But did not mention when the three weeks away begins. If soon, and in the month of June, i see no issues. In the NY area we get on average an inch-2 rain weekly. You can have your cake and have a vacation and a garden. The best method is a simple soaker or drip system on a dial timer and show a neighbor the timer if no rain has occurred in a few days. They just need to turn it on for 1/2 hour-45 min depending on your flow. A self timer is ok but it will water even when not needed. Just get the system well ahead of time so it can be tested. Tomatoes do best under-watered than swamped. I have to leave all the time during the grow season and i just watch the weather while away, then text or e-mail one of two neighbors to turn on the timer. If weather turns hot and we have an unusual drought i have a back-up plan. I just returned from 3 weeks away last night. No watering was needed as i watched the weather. One neighbor added water in my tomato start trays just once mid-trip. All 120 starts look good but i blame no one if something went wrong. It really depends on your climate and the time of the season away. August a few years ago i had a local nursery employee check on things. He scored a bounty of produce. I was willing to pay but after dealing with customers all day he enjoyed a walk through my garden in peace and quiet twice a week. If dry he turned on the drip system right away and harvested. Only once did he leave it on 24hrs. (my water is free). A sprinkler is fine if you know what you are doing. Can be expensive and horribly inefficient in most parts of the country. Not the best system during holiday. Drip systems are very affordable these days. Customizing each plants water needs and can be added to anytime....See MoreJune 2018, Week 4, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Comments (89)Rebecca, Stink bug or leaf-footed bug damage on the tomato. I was wondering about C. diff too. My younger sister had it once a few years ago and had to be hospitalized for quite some time. Nancy, We've been hearing occasional fireworks for about a week already. I'm tired of them....and we aren't anywhere near the actual Fourth of July holiday yet. It makes the dogs crazy. Everyone is out mowing grass down short today. Between the heat, lack of rainfall and the fireworks craziness we always have out here in unincorporated parts of the county, people know the grass in the fields needs to be short in case fireworks set their fields on fire. Heavenly Blue is one of the latest MGs to bloom at our place, and they do better in full sun and poor soil than in part shade and good soil, so it helps if you choose them a 'bad' site to grow and don't baby them too much. Otherwise, they can just go on making new foliage forever and forever and forget to bloom for the longest time. Once they start blooming, though, they are so spectacular that you'll forget how aggravating it was to wait forever and forever for them to get their act together. Most of the basil I grow is for the beneficial insects. I ignore it and don't harvest it much, and just let it bloom for them. Our weather is awful again today. It was supposed to be around 97 degrees with a heat index of 103, which certainly sounded better than previous days. So, what have we had so far? An official high temp of 98 (so, very close to forecast so far) at our Mesonet station with a max heat index so far of 109 (oops, they were way off on the forecast for this). At our house is it 100 degrees right now. Our weather refuses to behave. Everything outdoors is just roasting. They had our Mesonet station (and Kenton's, I think it was) down for a while today, and when they brought them back online, both stations changed from a 16" soil moisture level of 0.14 to 0.40, so they either changed malfunctioning moisture sensors or they adjusted the data. Now I don't know what to think, but no matter what their data shows, the ground is miserably dry. The rain is bypassing us, moving from SW towards central OK, so some of you are likely to get rain. Hopefully, you won't get the hail. Jennifer, I hope the dinner is fun and that the animals do well without valium. Megan, There's so many neonics in use that I mostly just grow my own flower transplants from seed nowadays. I tried to buy some plants at HD this past spring, and they had Neonic tags in them (sort of hidden behind the standard plant tag, so if you weren't checking for them you might miss them) so I put them back on the plant racks. At least they are labeling theirs, which most places do not. I used to buy flats and flats of annual flowers in early to mid Spring for maximum impact, but don't buy many now. If I cannot grow them myself or find them at an organic nursery in the DFW metro, then I just live without them. It is hard for me to give flower seedlings the attention they need when I'm wrapped up in growing veggie transplants, especially during winter/spring wildfire season, but I'm getting better at giving them the appropriate amount of attention since buying them is less and less of an option because of the heavy reliance in the bedding plant industry on nionics. For me, growing transplants is easy if I'm not rushing off to fires every day, but almost impossible if we're having a bad fire season. We've been harvesting and eating tons of tomatoes for two months now, so you will not hear any whining coming from my lips. The fruit that set in March-April is mostly all harvested now. We had very little fruitset in May, but those are the ones that are still green now. With the heat cranking up, no rainfall in ages and tons of wind this week, the spider mites are flooding into the garden every time the wind blows and hitting the tomato plants hard. I'm now at the point where I look at the plants and think to myself that I'll be glad when each plant has ripened its last fruit and I can yank it out of the ground, thereby putting it out of its misery. I've been doing a pretty good job killing stink bugs and leaf footed bugs with citrus oil, but normally wouldn't spray it on the plants because it tends to burn the foliage. (Orange oil, at a high enough concentration will strip paint and varnish, so I have to be really careful to mix it up properly and to not spray it on any plant I don't want to risk losing.) It is just that with the plants declining so rapidly and drought officially in parts of our county now, I just do not care. I wouldn't spray it on the leftover tomato plants that I planted at the northern fenceline very late (to serve as host plants for tomato and tobacco hornworms found on the fruit-bearing plants in the main tomato rows) because they have not been hit by herbicide drift or spider mites yet, so they look ridiculously good and might survive until fall if the grasshoppers would leave them alone. I also wouldn't use it on the 8 new tomato plants for fall. They are in containers at the NW end of the garden, in as much shade as I can give them and still expect them to grow any at all. They can have more sun later after they grow and are established. I'm no longer dealing with tons of tiny grasshoppers in the garden. Now I have big huge ones flocking to the garden from the non-irrigated fields around us---thousands of non-irrigated acres. The differential grasshoppers are a huge issue as they really prefer forbs to grasses at this time of the year. I've started letting my Kong sunflowers wilt on purpose, which I'd rather not do, because the differential grasshoppers, which love sunflowers, will usually avoid wilting sunflowers. (Maybe the wilting impacts the leaves in some way the differential grasshoppers do not like?) So now, the dog's sunflowers that are self-sowing natives which border their dog yard are much more appealing to the differential grasshoppers than my garden sunflowers because I am not watering the garden sunflowers but am watering the dog yard sunflowers to turn them into an appealing plant for the differentials. Whatever it takes...... Tim just came in from the Great Outdoors and informed me it is hot out there. Thanks, I told him, I hadn't noticed. I think being at work 5 days a week somewhat skews his perception of the heat here because by the time he arrives home near 7 pm, we usually are a lot cooler than we were just 2 to 4 hours earlier. Today, for the first time in ages, instead of working on something at home, we went to the fire station and worked on various projects. I cleaned the kitchen, filled up the fridges with additional bottled water and Gatorade, inventoried firefighter snacks, etc. I noticed that, in our neighborhood between the fire station and our house, areas that are heavily shaded or that get shade at least half the day still look half decent. Areas that are in full sun? They look pathetic. My garden needs trees in it to shade the plants in hot weather, but I don't want the trees there all the time. Dawn...See Morejulesavl
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