Will You Help Me Fill Another Container?
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Affording Soil to fill up all these containers?
Comments (11)That's most of it, yes... The ingredients are sometimes difficult to locate. If you can find Bark and Perlite, you can make a decent vegetable mix. Five parts bark, one part Perlite, one part potting soil (or peat). To this, you would add a Tablespoon (if I recall) of Dolomitic Garden Lime per gallon of soil. Check this Thread out. Two types of mixes are described in detail. Josh Here is a link that might be useful: Container Soils - Water Movement and Retention XI...See MoreCan you help me with another perspective??
Comments (10)Wig, I am guessing my tree is around fourteen or fifteen ft high....and I have had it planted for around ten or 11 years. It was a good size tree when we bought it tho. Mine blooms beautiful pink in the spring..loads of it...or at least loads of it if the frost doesn't get it. I have my goldfish pond at its base. It too began as the base for a new bed. We bought it, planted it..then decided a year later to enhance and add to it. In its early years (Before we had internet) I was not agrressive enough with its pruning. I pruned from the bottom branches but did nothing much to the top. It began to look much like a 13 year old with long arms and legs..a bit gangly....after doing some net research, we discovered we should of always been "topping" anything out the top that was not a strong weeper...anything upright BEFORE weeping...it is my understanding you can "lose" the form of the tree if you do not watch that it its early years. So watch for that and do some research on it. Lucky for us, it was not to late to reshape our tree with some artful pruning. I think there is a bit of debate over dwarf or not. It is my understanding that these trees are almost never true dwarfs...but rather semi dwarfs,(tho there is a dward white bloomer) tho some call them dwarfs, they really are a semi dwarf..growing fifteen to eighteen feet high..so don't count on the tree staying too small...while they dont get massive I believe..they are also not dwarf :). I too was told my was dwarf..by a reputable nursery. I LOVE my weeper, I would be sad if I ever lost it..its beauty in the spring just cant be beat..and it blooms at the same time as my lilacs and between the lilacs and the cherry, the air is the most wonderful mix of smells ever. Mine was a mothers day present from my hubby and kids and it was the best mothers day present ever as it gives and gives each and every year. It was money well spent...I bet you will love yours too. I will try to post a pic of it this weekend. It is not blooming now ofcourse..but still my fav tree in the yard. It is also my understanding that if you have a dwarf white cherry variety that it has a bit of a diff form than the semi dward pinks. They are usually more straight sticks that weep rather than full rounded weepers...again, this is just information that was shared to me..not sure exactly how true it is..but it fits my tree at least...and if it is true, yours is a rounder version also. How long have you had the tree?...See MoreFill a birdfeeder....slog slog...fill another...
Comments (7)So many branches snapped off in the October storm, I've only got three seed feeders & 2 suet feeders out this year. There's a gazebo-style pole feeder in front and a large, square wooden tray feeder hanging from a hook on the breezeway. Normally there are several more seed feeders hanging in the crabapple tree. My neighbor whacked three branches off the tree that were damaged in the storm and were touching the house so those are gone. Now it takes about half the usual time to fill the feeders but at least so far I can still get to them. Last winter I was forced to feed on the breezeway because the snow was too deep on the front lawn. I can't lift a 50 lb. bag so I buy it in 25 lb. size which means, of course, more frequent trips to the feed store. The store isn't too far a drive and I suppose in a pinch if I were really snowed in I could buy seed at the local hardware store. I've always fed the birds and love watching them. The hawk landed in the crabapple one day last week and let me snap quite a few shots through the big window. There are lots of cardinals here and the bluejays have made a comeback the past few years to where they come in noisy groups of 5 or 6. Nuthatches, junkos, chickadees, eastern bluebirds, titmice, finches, wrens, mourning doves and various woodpeckers make up the rest of the indigenous species. We'll rarely see a Baltimore oriole, evening grosbeak or red-wing blackbird....See MoreHelp me fill this gaping hole in my countertop!
Comments (16)momof2doxies: thanks for the photo! That helps me visualize. I think if I do BB there I'd have to do something contrasting -- either striped like yours or end grain. shanghaimom and ci_lantro: reinstalling the Jenn-Aire as a functioning cooktop is not possible. We have a stone house and the exhaust vent to the outside is already covered up and re-stoned, so I can't hook it back up. (We had a lot of stone work/patching done before we moved in and had the vent patched at the same time, before we really discussed options for dealing with the big hole!) This is a strange and quirky house, so the patched counters will just have to be one of its charms!...See Morerosecanadian
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