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please critique kitchen layout....that board is super slow
Comments (2)You will get more Kitchen LAYOUT feedback if you actually post your layout (specifically, measurements, appliance locations/sizes, etc) in the thread. They don't like to have to click around (and neither do I). I find your layout through your link to be very difficult to read/see in order for me to comment. Also, read the "new to kitchens" thread....See MoreHey Midwest sellers, how's it going? So slow for us...
Comments (13)We were FSBO March-August last year and with a C21 realtor since. We started at $165k, went down to $160k, $155K, $152.5k. and now are at $149.4k. We have had a lot of interest lately. A nurse I gave a flyer to wants to buy, but needs a two-year rent-to-own. We need to close by November 2008 to have lived in the home two of the past 5 years, so her timeframe does not match ours. We have had a good half dozen showings in the past two weeks, so I am hopeful. Our realtor talked us into offering to change our newly remodeled, fully custom kitchen in order to fit a small table or serving counter there. We will offer to pay for this to be done after closing if we are given a full-price offer. No eat-in kitchen and an awkard dining L in the LR are the two complaints we hear all the time. It sucks. The kitchen worked great for me, and tearing it up kind of makes me sick, but I will do whatever we need to sell at this point. My job is now in question. I KNOW I will lose at least half of my hours in October, and I could lose the other half sooner. We have got to sell before this happens. As a contractor, there is no unemployment, and building a caseload at an agency takes time and pays less than half of what I am getting now! TIME TO SELL!...See MoreHow do you get the soil ready? Slow and not so slow methods...
Comments (27)Hi Cori Ann - I'm a big proponent of the "mulch and don't wait" school of enriching soil, but I start with decent soil in the first place. It's clay, but loamy clay, so once I can get past the rocks and whatever else was growing instead of roses (like, horrors, a LAWN), I have decent stuff to work with. I do the usual lasagne method over the top of the grass or whatever, since I am wayyyyy too lazy to double dig anything (once at my old house, and never again). When I have a new area I want to turn into a garden, I give myself maybe a day's lead time (but fine if not) to do the following: - lay down cardboard, paper bags and/or newspapers, and cover with organic stuff like leaves, compost, vegetable trimmings, or whatever - usually 3-5" thick at least - Add some cheater topsoil to jumpstart the breakdown process - maybe 1" - top with leaves as top mulch, not necessary to shred if you have something to hold them in place (too much like work) or mulch if you're not cheap like me. A good additional 3" or so of these will break down over the season to enrich the whole bed. - Go ahead and plant where I jolly well want to. Dig a hole through the lasagne layers into the crappy soil, and mix all of the above into the planting hole, chopping vigorously at the vicious little grubs as you find them (good for the soul as well as soil). I always add some extra manure and compost as well as alfalfa when I plant (even in established beds), mixed about 1/3 with the rest regular soil, so this prepares the hole a little extra. - Let the worms do your work for you, to even out the discrepancy between your Cadillac planting hole and Nova rest of the bed. You don't want to create a huge sink if you have super clay soil, where all the water pools in your good hole and rots your rose, so by conditioning the rest of the soil while you plant you get the best of both worlds. Not having to wait, but not really leaving the rest of the bed on its own either. - When some of your roses die (as half of them will in zone 5 for me), plant the new rose in a slightly different spot from the old one to expand the Cadillac-ness of the rest of the bed. - Keep everything mulched with leaves or other organic material indefinitely to keep feeding your soil for a minimum of work, and maximum benefit with minimum wait time. Make those worms WORK for their grub. I've done this dozens of times in soil that you couldn't get a pitchfork into without serious sweat, and ended up mid-season with soil good enough to flip with a hand tool. The copious amounts of organic material mixed in with some real soil does it for me, and I don't fuss with waiting at all. Of course that's my soil and yours may differ. Cynthia...See MoreAnyone else having a slow start?
Comments (6)If you could see the pathetic state of my plants, Kali, you would feel better about yours. The only plants that are thriving here are those that love cool weather and dislike strong sun, the newly planted ligularia, persicaria, Scottish bluebells, and trout lilies for instance, along with salad greens on the porch. Daffodils bloomed well and daylilies seem to be coming up on schedule, but that's about it for successes. Kerria and kiwi vines are recovering very slowly from being eaten down to nothing by rabbits, and my plants started from seed are all under one inch tall, many empty pots housing seeds that never germinated at all. The lack of sunlight and relentless cold have left their mark for sure....See Moresummersrhythm_z6a
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