Do Your Part: Flatten The Curve
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Darnit, wind and rain flattened my garden last night
Comments (12)Hey FBB: Don't feel bad, it happens to me to a varying extent every year. My extols me to hill the corn every year. She thinks that it will produce more prop roots thereby minimizing the lodging. I agree with her about causing greater prop root formation but, still I get blowdown. The reasons I don't like hilling: 1) it is alot of physical work 2) it doesn't seem to stop the lodging 3) I have to flatten the hills back out in the fall (more work). However, this year, in order to reduce the labor I used my tiller to loosen about an inch of soil on both sides of each row and hilled the plants with the easy to move soil. It made hills about 8" tall around the plants. We had 3" of rain wind and pea sized hail Monday evening over a 2 hour period and my corn is still standing. HURRAY! I'm looking forward to picking standing like a homo sapiens rather than a gorilla this year. There may be another benefit to hilling. For the 1st time ever, I have corn root worms. Having the extra roots that formed from hilling may have saved me from serious losses from the worm s the plants may have grew new roots faster than the worms could kill them. About 5% of my plants fell over and shriveled which is how I discovered the (very late in the season) worms....See MoreCurving/Leaning Aborvitae (Part Deux!)
Comments (8)i agree they need more time... but i would still go in.. and prune out the bigger drooping parts ... last pic... closest plant... trim off enough of the farthest stuff outwards .. so that the main branch can straighten itself up.. and grow right ... you MUST leave some green on a branch.. to insure that the branch will continue .... yeah.. you might make some holes in the greenery ... but in a year or two.. you wont even notice ... but for the transplant.. they may have straightened themselves.. but since they are stressed as such.. i wouldnt be surprised that they cant recover on their own ... and those particular branches will be a problem.. if snow load is an issue ... even if its a once every 5 year freak storm thing ... once the pruned branch get stockier.. then it will be able to support the branch above .. ken...See MoreNeed Tips on Flattening Chicken Breasts
Comments (26)I've had chicken breasts that just wouldn't flatten a couple of times. I find that when that happens, I "pound" them from the underside - the side that was against the bone before the bone was removed. I usually pound from the skin side because when I have the other side face up I find that they tend to "smoosh" and start to tear. I also find that on the thickest part of the breast, I'll hold my pounder so that the edge hits first and pound over the thickest area on edge a few times - it concentrates the force on a smaller area and breaks up the muscle strands a bit better, then I can go back to the flat and after a couple more hits that thickest part of the breast flattens out much easier. I put mine in those cheap plastic freezer bags and then pound them btw. Lisa...See MoreHow is your curved sink (esp Silgranite) sink supported?
Comments (5)We just had this sink installed 3 weeks ago. It is a flush undermount in a quartz counter top. The counter fabricator installed the sink when they installed the countertop. They installed an additional support that is constructed of heavy wire with a bracket under the large bowl (kind of looks like an "X") with each point of the "X" attached to one of 4 small metal ring type brackets that are screwed into the inside of the sink base. These folks are a large supplier of granite & solid surfaces so I didn't even question what they were doing. You don't see this support when the cabinet doors or tilt out is open. And we do have a tilt out. Although our contractor installed it after the sink was put in (cabs are custom built). Hope this helps....See MoreZalco/bring back Sophie!
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