Can we have tea early this week?
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Comments (21)DO you like "character" in your wood (scratches)? I like my wood to be sleek and satiny. The wood in my foyer shows every mark in certain lights. Kids dragging backpacks with zippers across it, gravel and sand from winter storms that gets stuck in shoes. I hate it. My upstairs wood seems to be holding up much better but then again it gets mainly socks on it, and the dragging of backpack days are over. Have dropped a few knives on to my tile kitchen floor and been so glad it's tile! The drainpipe has come off the garbage disposer and it makes a mess before you realize it. If you have pets it's nice to have a relatively indestructible surface in case they get an "illness" or whatever. (and for training in puppies.) I love my tile because it is about 8 years old and looks like the day we put it in. Mine is greyish but is sort of slate like with several colors. I can go FOREVER before it looks dirty! I do like the look of the tile that looks like wood. I would strongly consider that. I even considered it for my family room, figuring I could get a big area rug that could be replaced easily if I got tired of it or it got dirty. If only I could afford the underfloor radiant heat. The underfloor heat is a BIG plus for tile! Can you square off the kitchen floor at the morning room across to the base of the stairs? With that floorplan I think the "Kitchen" can end wherever you want it to. You won't have family room seating up against the island, so wherever the island is would be "kitchen" so floor it like kitchen. If you do get wood (and even if you get tile) be sure to get an extra box( or a few tiles at least) of each to store in case of a problem down the road. I replaced a section of wood with wood stored my attic (15 years old!) because the sun had faded it so badly from the sidelights and storm door....See MoreAre we going to have an early winter????
Comments (19)I hope not - just picked my first tomatoes (grown from late-planted seed) today ... and there are a large number forming. I've been staking and stringing them (which should have been done in July, but I spent most of that travelling). Landlord is going to bring down a tarp, that I can hang over the strings. Last fall I was using old sheets, blankets, small tarpaulins, shirts, towels and seed bags ... even a sleeping bag (that I found on the road - but it was in good shape). Picked about 25 boxes of half green ones on a late fall evening and after dark, in the rain and snow ... quite a few of which ripened in the house and basement. I hope that I can avoid a repeat of that game, this year. ole joyful...See MoreWill these plum tree buds be damaged by frosts we will have next week
Comments (37)tlbean2004, I have really been wondering if your buds were killed. You may recall (or see it above) that after you posted that thread I told you that I had one tree that looked almost exactly like yours and I was also worried about the coming cold. As it turned out, we got down to about 5 degrees here (I read that you got to around 15). You also mentioned seeing some browning, can you tell for sure yet how bad it hurt your tree? As for me, I think it killed every single brown bud-fruit or leaf. All the small green buds on my tree are now brown and when I pull them open they seem to be brown inside as well!!!! I'm so mad, but at least it was my only tree that was starting to bud and therefore (hopefully) the only one to be damaged, By the way, I can't tell 100%, but it looks like the thing around the trunk in vanman23's photo above is exactly what I use, and if so it works great, is very cheap, and easy to find and work with. What I use is 6-8 inch black, flexible, corrugated pipe. It comes in big rolls (they are big and bulky due to the pipe being 6-8 inches wide but its still fairly cheap and light to move) and can be purchased at Lowes and other similar places. It also usually has small 1/2 inch or so holes randomly every few inches, which allows breathing but not mice, etc. You can cut off a 2-3 foot section for your tree (another advantage of this is you can select and cut off different lengths for different trees). Then for really small whips you can just slide it around the whip and lower it to the ground. For larger trees, you can simply take the 2-3 foot section you cut off the main roll, and cut it length wise. You can then pull it apart enough to open it up and place it around the trunk of the tree. It will automatically pull itself back together and maintain plenty of strength to keep critters out. hope this helps you or others....See MoreWe're Having All Four Seasons of Weather This Week!
Comments (30)Bon, Really, it isn't even time to put any warm-season edible plants in the ground yet except for corn in far southern OK, but I wanted to start some zinnias and basil and a few other warm-season things indoors. I don't even remember the OSU-recommended dates to start putting warm-season plants and seeds in the ground---probably April 10th for most things. Since I plant by the combination of soil temp, air temp and forecast, I don't remember the OSU dates as well as I should. I've got everything in the ground that I can plant at the present time except for a few flats of flowers I'm raising from seed, so I'll play around with starting a few herbs and flowers that I can put in the ground 4 to 6 weeks from now. Having had high temperatures this week in the mid- to upper-80s, I am worried we'll get too hot too early so went ahead and planted beans and corn this week. It is early for the beans, but we are unseasonably warm and so is our soil, so I think I'll get away with planting them early. It still is too cool for peppers, melons, okra, squash, cucumbers, southern peas and the like. Some years it gets so hot so early down here that plants that are heat-sensitive, like beans, start dropping their blossoms almost as soon as they start making blooms, so if there is anything I'll push in the ground a tiny bit early, it is bush beans. I don't rush pole beans or Lima beans quite as much as they don't seem to tolerate being planting a touch early as well as the bush beans do. Most of the veggie gardens we drive by on a routine basis on our way to town are either plowed or rototilled and bare, some with big puddles of water standing in them, so not many folks here have planted anything yet. A couple of them aren't even plowed or rototilled yet. I wouldn't have planted anything if I didn't have raised beds that dry out more quickly. I wouldn't dare put anything in the grade level soil yet because it likely would just rot. Even folks near us who usually get their onions in the ground here no later than the OSU recommended dates (and often much earlier) don't have onions in the ground yet. As far as Fred and I know, I'm the only person who's planted onions already, and it is getting terribly late in southern OK to plant short-day types. This may be the first year I've ever had my onions in the ground before everyone else. I just keep an eye on my soil temperatures, my air temperatures and our 8-10 day forecast when making planting decisions. I won't plant if the soil is too cold for whatever it is I want to plant because seeds won't germinate and transplants won't grow while the soil is too cold. Our soil has been shockingly warm this week in the raised beds, which made planting beans and corn possible. I need to tackle the weeds growing in the mulch in the grade level areas because those areas are too wet to work so they haven't been touched since autumn and are growing a healthy crop of cool-season weeds. It is warm enough that 4 o'clocks, daturas and the dreaded bind weed are sprouting. Ugh. I hate bind weed. Today is so windy and cold that I may not go out to the garden at all except to harvest asparagus. I might spend tomorrow catching up on the weeding in the grade level soil if it is dry enough. It it is too wet and big clumps of soil come up with the weeds, I'll just have to wait another day or two for it to dry out more. I will tackle the clean-up of the back garden next week. It is all grade-level soil with no raised beds, so has been too muddy for me to venture into it at all. The perennials back there are up and growing well, though, so apparently the constant moisture hasn't bothered them. So, what's a gardener to do when they can't garden? Starting seeds indoors is about all that's left to do on a day like this....See MoreLavender Lass
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