I'll try this again. What should I do with that orange brick?
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Comments (23)Lauraeli, LOL! I was wondering if anybody would notice my ponies! Merkity, thanks! Yeah, it is Spanish moss. I just chuck it in the sink for a couple of hours when it starts to look dry and that seems to keep it happy. Also I keep it out of direct sun. Thanks, Karin! Your bench isnâÂÂt so bad either! Those lights! Caw. The only real artificial lighting I have is a cheap aquarium LED tube over a terrarium. Glass would be fine. Fortyseven makes a good point. Plus before I made my shelf, I used to grow my cuttings in old fish tanks. It worked fine. I even remember once putting a plant under a desk lamp in a dark corner. Definitely no UV there, but the plant didnâÂÂt seem to notice! And actually, come to think of it, I think my perspex was UV resistant anyway⦠The only problem you might have with glass is its weight. But if you want to make something less big and unwieldy than I did, that probably wouldnâÂÂt be an issue. My shelf is narrow and the struts are quite flexible, so it falls over easily when itâÂÂs not jammed between the bench and the shower⦠if I move house, I think IâÂÂll have to bolt it to the wall or something....See MoreWell, I don't think I'll be growing white pumpkins again...
Comments (6)We grow a couple different varieties of white pumpkins each season and have grown Lumina....they can be a little touchy some seasons and we stopped growing them and moved onto better. Some of my favorite...Cotton Candy...they are nice round basketball sized pumpkins that grow on semi bush vines. We have grown these each year for past 6 yrs and always get good production. Also last year we began growing a white pumpkin called Valenciano...they are nice creamy white pumpkin that will get to be about 10 -12 pounds. They have quickly become my favorite and are pretty easy to grow and you get quite a few pumpkins off each vine. So don't give up on the white pumpkins...there are some better varieties out there. One thing also we have found that growing them next to corn or tall grass gives them the protection they need from the sun scorching them. Can find seeds thru Johnny's Seeds, Rupps Seeds or Reimer Seeds......See MoreTrying this again, what am I doing wrong?
Comments (18)I wouldn't worry about putting anything in the area above the cornices you're taking down. The focus should be on the view outside. I think it might be a good idea to place the sofa on the opposite side and the two light chairs on this side. This would make for a more inviting view. A small table between the two chairs would add more interest and give a parking spot for drinks or small food plates. The lamp between your two chairs seems too short for a living room lamp, and I would choose a new one with a thinner base to give you more room on the table and it will also look better. Perhaps a fairly thin metal base of some kind would suit this area better. Since this room seems a little dark I would think about getting a lighter-colored rug and also a larger one so that your chairs are sitting on it completely. The visual of the chairs from the side will be much more pleasing. I think this area needs some warm accents like yellow, gold and terracotta to play against all the cool colors you have, and you might think about changing your pillows. Your rug could also have some of those colors for a warmer, friendlier look....See MoreIceberg in a pot died, should I try again?
Comments (27)@l pinkmountain, I feel you! Your rock mulch and plastic! My property is similar, 1/3 acre of mature trees and the bare ground covered with layers of rock and plastic since 1962. The prior owner (the only other owner besides me) dealt with weeds growing in the rocks by dumping MORE rocks. As I'm removing it, slowly, I'm discovering original flagstone stepping stones covered up by 6 inches of rock, and the flagstone itself is in the original rock, which was just gravel and would have been so much better to deal with than the heavier river stones. The prior owner loved roses, and grew them by digging many very deep holes for big plastic buckets that stuck out of the ground a bit. I am trying to remove them, it is not the look I want, but they just break off in bits so I think I'm going to have to dig up the whole area to get them out. The property was an estate sale so it came "as is" and most of the roses had been dead for awhile but the buckets remain. It's all so much work! At the moment, where I want to put a rose, I scrape away the rocks and make a raised bed, the bottom, in contact with the native soil, lined with wood chips. Right now I'm using what I have. I just today made a raised bed for a miniature rose (Bees Knees) with logs from a tree I removed. Eventually I will replace the logs with nice larger desert rocks. I am planting many native perennials and cactus and yuccas, these do go into the native soil, and I buy small plants so I don't have to injure the extensive tree roots with a big hole. My goal is a desert cottage garden, where there is little need for mulch because native plants cover and shade the ground. And I'm finding I can use some of the rocks as paths. I also just remove the rock and plastic little by little, and any place I do, I mulch heavily with wood chips that I keep damp. This starts to improve the dead soil almost immediately! I do have a lot of pots, although this year I transitioned some of them to a raised bed (new retaining wall). My "secret sauce" to pots is to use the root pouch bags. Sometimes just alone but most of the time, I put the bag inside a pot as a liner. Sometimes if the pot is deep I cut out the bottom of the root pouch bag. I buy them from Greenhousemegastore. The roses don't ever get root bound and their roots stay an even temperature. I had a Julie Child rose in a pot for 4 years, which I just transplanted to the retaining wall, and the root system was amazing, and transplanted incredible easy without breaking a single root, because of how the plant grows in the bag. What I love about the bags is that it also can give you a temporary raised bed! Even just sitting on your rock mulch. But If you scrape away a bag-size area of the rock and plastic, put some organic matter on the soil, and then a bag, with the bottom cut out or intact, depending on your goals, you will already be nurturing soil life with the watering and nutrients that you provide the rose. You can disguise the bag with stacked rocks if you have them, or if you're like me and want something temporary and cheap, just cut bamboo fencing to the right height and cover it. I'm sure there's lots of ways to disguise it. But it will let you easily, temporarily, or somewhat permanently, enjoy a rose even while your property floor is so imperfect per your aesthetic and dreams.. If not roses now, then when?! :D...See MoreMags R
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