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Laura LaRosa (7b)
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My St Augustine grass is mostly dead
Comments (16)It looks like it's about 2 weeks behind compared to other years but my 'Sapphire' st augustine is coming back with force now that it's warm. I guess it's not quite cold susceptible as I had thought, maybe a bit more cold hardy than Floratam. Still, I had a lot of winter kill that I had to remove. Still much better than Raleigh (very susceptible to fungal disease) and Palmetto (prone to SAD virus). Looks like maybe Palmetto got wiped out by hard freezes due to being weakened by virus??? Sapphire seem to be strongly resistant to fungal disease and SADV....See MoreBack to Basics?
Comments (6)I've carried and grown the peachy ones, bright yellow ones, variegated leafed ones, speckled ones, and dusky purple ones. For the most part, they all get their fifteen minutes of fame, sell like hotcakes for a few seasons and go back to obscurity. Selling an orange poinsettia at Christmas is about like selling a pink pumpkin at Halloween. In the mid-eighties.........everyone was decorating their homes in dusty rose. So, we sold a lot of pink. I used to sell heavily to florists, and that's when I moved a lot of lemon yellow to high end orders because it was hard to get, and a novelty. When I stopped selling to florists, I never had another order for yellow. So why mostly red this year? It's nostalgic, and in times of economic depression, that's what people want for the most part. They want their Christmas to remind them of happier times, when they were kids and that meant the poinsettias were red. The economy plays into it in other ways too. It's called 'reduce the shrink'. Red is a better seller and the main crop of the mix. Pastels used to be perhaps 25% of my market. It's dropped steadily for at least five years and accounts for less than ten percent of my sales this year. Nobody is ordering them on the wholesale level. I noticed last year when I went in to town right before Christmas day..........nearly all the unsold points on display were pastels. So, my guess the stores are playing it safe. Since so many are sold through box stores, which means the wholesale growers don't get paid for any if they don't sell, the growers are also playing it safe. In this case, poo runs uphill. It's going through the whole production/distribution chain. I was talking to my seed broker yesterday and asked whether I can afford to wait in case I need to supplement what I already bought. My seed order went in last August, and I have some of my spring line growing on at present. So, it's late and I was told vegetable seed availability is already tight. It's not like less seed was produced, or demand necessarily increased. It's about holding down speculation orders on a perishable product....See More'Back to Basics' Blender Express
Comments (1)I can't verify how good the Back to Basics Blender Express is, but I've had fantastic success with their Smoothie Maker. And with Back to Basics you can order replacement parts for just about any of their products. I'm very happy with their products....See MoreMaster bedroom - back to layout basics
Comments (3)What about one of the beds that is on a lift up mechanism like a car trunk for long term storage rather than a bunch of drawers underneath. I am not too keen on a bunch of open hooks for storage, especially in a modernist like yours, but in general, clothes on hooks get misshapen and they get dusty (and sometime fade depending on how long/often they go on the hook)....See MoreMonyet
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