HELP! New cabinets & quartzite look terrible together!
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Brand new here...help..cucs and melon look terrible!
Comments (18)Did you do a soil test? I'm not far from you and when we checked our soil, we had a ton of potassium, and no nitrogen. None. Not even a drop. We've also faced some challenges with cucurbits. I've been spraying with a combination of Neem Oil and Copper (about 1/2 tblspn each in a dollar-store hand sprayer) to fight the squash bugs and powdery mildew, respectively. We've mixed it up with a baking soda, garlic, dish soap and onion spray, too, when the stinkbugs and aphids came out. Also, compost heavily. Cucurbits are hungry, and in new soil, and the poor soil we have, there's no such thing as too much compost. Every iota of kitchen scrap goes to a cucurbit. We've had mixed results, in West San Antonio. Our pumpkins are HUGE, and the zucchini are prolific, but the watermelons are struggling and I've only had one cucumber, so far. One thing that I think has helped, for us, as I look at what's succeeded and what hasn't, is companion planting. I've got a whole mess of borage and sunflowers digging into that hard clay. I'll yank leaves off them, and throw them down as mulch sometimes. The plants where I've done that have done better.The successful zucchini are surrounded by radishes and snow peas and borage and sunflowers. I'd be able to experiment more, but volunteer pumpkins came up from a composted mustard bed after Halloween, and we managed to keep them alive all winter. Now we're getting these massive pumpkin vines that have completely dominated a huge swath of our garden real estate, unplanned. Huge pumpkins, too! With a mild enough winter and kloaches of a big enough size, I suspect that any long-season cucurbits ought to be planted in the late fall, around here. I've got more pumpkin vine than I know what to do with! If I had tried the same trick with Watermelons, I'd be eating them already! My ten cents... I know this topic is a little old and you've solved your own problems. Your raised beds look awesome! I always overplant for high-density practices and things quickly become a jungle....See MoreMiele Owners Pls Help! New Miele DW has terrible odor!
Comments (34)I pulled the filter and checked mine last night. There is water like yours and there was some small bits of food particles. Did not smell. Although It finished running a load about 18hrs before. I can't test the two day thing since it pretty much always has dirty dishes in it. When there is dirty dishes in it obviously will have an odor that will build over time. I scrape but do not rinse my stuff. Wasn't as hard to break the habit that we had with rinsing the dishes since we were without a DW and sink for like 8 months for my remodel so it was like starting over :). I just started using the DW a few weeks ago. I have started using Miele Tabs and using 1/2. No rinse aid or salt. I have a whole house water softener and I just tested the water again and its at like 2 grains vs 28 without the softner. Kas, You use Tabs and rinse aid. I thought based on the directions that rinse aid should not be used with Tab detergents? I set the unit to not dispense any rinseaid. I do get white spots on silverware, plastic and glasses. Not sure I should add rinse aid....See More? absolute black granite & supreme white quartzite together
Comments (3)I'm linking you to my finished kitchen. I put leathered absolute black on our perimeter with white macaubus on our island....same concept light patterned island (though my pattern is more linear) and solid perimeter. The absolute black reads as a solid even though there is some interest to it. It's really pretty installed. Here is a link that might be useful: babs711 finished kitchen...See MoreNew Mont Lucia Quartzite Beautiful (like marble) Real Quartzite?
Comments (23)My quartzite was labeled Quartzite Gioia. However it looks a lot like some of the other quartzites that I seen seen on this thread. Someone mentioned that the stones are not always labeled consistently. It is a little grayer than I would have preferred but I still love it. we have been in our new house since Thanksgiving or so. Absolutely no etching or staining. The only problem I have had is trying to decide on a backsplash tile....See More- 2 years ago
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