Purchasing a Smoker? What should I look for?
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Comments (21)Thanks for sharing my excitement. It's amazing how gardeners go gaga over a good deal. Yes, they are stained a light green, a nice "blending" color. Dani, I love your post on the different colors every year. I had already thought that maybe I will paint them each different colors (like my ladders) but wonder if that will be too crazy looking. I probably will after the first two years when they need a refresher. Iris9 - yup, the same one from Lowe's. I like your idea of clematis, and at least one will have a clematis winding through it. I'm thinking half will be flowers, half veggies - scarlet runner beans, sweet peas, cucumbers, etc. The fun is that I get to change it every year. The Black-eyed susans are doing great this year and are HUGE! It's all the rain that they love. And yes I will post photos :-) Been too busy this summer to post much, but winter's coming, when I have more time to garden daydream....See MoreI want a living shredder. What should I be looking for?
Comments (13)"I have a lot of heavily compacted clay. I want it ready by February." Heavy mulching and composting right over the top of the clay can do it. I had hard-packed alkaline desert dirt - hard enough that I had to use a mattock to dig planting holes for 6-pack seedlings - and turned it into a veggie bed I can dig in with a hand trowel. Drip lines under everything for even moisture. Fertilized well with ironite and soil sulfur (we're short on iron and high on pH) Fertilized lightly with ammonium nitrate (both were sprinkled on the dirt, not even raked in) Spread layer of whatever compost and other material I had about 4 inches deep. Did not till it in. Dug holes and planted veggies (okra and eggplants) Spread a thick (4-6 inch) layer of wood chips as mulch. Okra has an astounding root system, going down 4-6 feet, so at the end of the season when I sliced off the plants at the base, it left a large amount of organic material in the dirt far deeper than I could dig. Repeated for the next year, adding compost as it became available, adding mulch as it decomposed, enlarging area as well. I had the advantage of a mild climate, but the freeze-thaw cycle in a cold climate does a lot to destroy plant material. And there are cold-tolerant fungi and bacteria active then. Amend whatever you can amend really well, and add onto the amended area as materials allow. it's better to amend thoroughly than to skimp over a larger area....See MoreHelp... What is this I'm looking at and should I be concerned
Comments (10)Definitely looks like mouse damage and droppings. Maybe its a good thing, you decided to buy a new range. You could have had a fire there. Call an electrician and have that all redone, and make sure this time, its also mounted in the wall, rather than just laying behind the range, where it could get kinked and deteriorate. You need to know if the new range, has the same type of plug on it, so you know exactly which range outlet you need. That one is old, so chances are, your new range wont work with it anyway. The papers that come with the range, will be needed for the electrician. Those papers tell the electrician, what your new range needs to operate properly....See MoreHow do I phrase what I'm looking for, and where should I look for it?
Comments (16)> @joseph_corlett Depends upon what part of the country you're in also. Do you get hurricanes? West Coast -- no hurricanes. Just forest fires. > @Verbo. You're going to need an engineered curtain wall assembly to do that justice. We probably won't do any curtains at all. Our backyard when it's finished will be totally private. > @lkbum_gw I'd aslo reccomend contacting a local glass company, one that does commercial installations. Google "commercial glass" for your area. Ooo. That is an idea. I will do that! > @palimpsest One way I am thinking of getting a more open look back is to reduce the number of divisions I am giving that some thought too. Ours isn't too bad from a divisions perspective, but even fewer would be even better. > @dan1888 Thank you so much for linking me to specific product lines. That is REALLY helpful. I will definitely thoroughly look through all of them this week. > @Shasta We considered replacing the sliding glass doors but were able to repair them by replacing the rollers and adjusting them so we just replaced the glass in them too. Who did the repair on your sliding glass doors? Was it the same people who replaced the glass, or are there companies who specialize in sliding door repair? If so, what is that specialty called? Because that would definitely be of GREAT interest. If someone could make these glide smoothly and quit leaking, that would solve everything....See MoreSherry8aNorthAL
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