Ck out the link to read about double or single bowl sinks. I truly feel a single bowl sink with a right rear drain is the best type of sink on the market. Now, let's talk about double bowl sinks. Double bowl sinks were designed prior to the invention of the dishwasher. We washed in one side and rinsed in the other. Let me outline the most popular concern I have heard about making the change from a double bowl sink to a single bowl sink. Most Americans use their dishwashers for dishes, cutlery and glasses. Some, like myself, like to wash a few dishes here and there without running the dishwasher. The old fashioned way was to place a grid drain in the left bowl so that dishes could be washed in the right bowl and set to dry in the left bowl. That divider kept dirty water from getting on the cleaned items. If you have a double bowl sink I guarantee that you have to take your large pans, platters, cookie sheets, etc. and place them vertically inside the right bowl. You have to spin them around to wash them and you have to spin them around again to rinse them. It is impossible to lay them down inside the sink. The new way, using a single bowl sink with a right rear drain, is similar. Merely place a drying rack in the left side of the sink and wash on the right. The sink is sloped to the right rear so the dirty water never touches the clean dishes. Since the drain is in the right rear, there is little chance for a misplaced dish to cover the drain and begin the maddening unintentional filling of the sink with dirty water. You say you occasionally fill one bowl with soapy water to soak an item and need the second sink for other things. No problem! Tupperware to the rescue! Just get a large Tupperware container and place it in the left side of the sink, fill it with soapy water and you have accomplished the same thing without a PERMANENT divider that causes more problems than it solves. Lastly, the right rear drain allows you to work differently at your sink. With your current double bowl sink, most of the washing and scrubbing is done near the mid level of the sink - rarely at the bottom. This has to be done because you can not lay your items flat in the bottom of the sink (they don't fit!!!). With our right rear drain, large items will easily fit flat in the bottom of your sink - allowing you to scrub pots, pans, cookie sheets, etc, with more ease. Since the items are flat in the bottom of the sink, you have more leverage and rinsing them is less treacherous. Think about it... Now that we are working in the bottom of the sinks, sinks need to be shallower. Most of our sinks are installed under 1 1/4' granite. Think of a 10' deep sink under a 1 1/4' slab. Now you have an 11 1/4' deep sink. If you are working in the bottom of the sink, that is too deep! We recommend 8 to 9' deep sinks for ultimate comfort. So... you diehard double bowl fans - please reconsider. We have converted thousands of you and we hear back from them regularly. They say they could never go back! Just in case this epistle was not convincing enough - yes we build custom double bowl sinks too! Here is a link that might be useful: Rachiele custom sinks

I, too, am having a problem with my hardy hibiscus. They came up on time(after I cut off the dead from the winter) and grew up really fast. But now they have buds and are starting to drop leaves. They didn't do that last year. I was wondering if they might have a virus? I fed them Osmocote in late April/early May. Should I boost them with Miracle Grow now? Maybe the budding is starving them? They're in pots on my deck and they are HUGE!

Did you ever learn anything, about the change,IN THE SHAPE,of the leaf form ? Mine shows this same experience,after,I pruned it well,and brought it inside,for the winter. Does this possibly indicate a change in the sex of the plant? Or do these "changed leaves" show effect, in it's abilty to flower? Because it has no blooms,to date,(first days of summer). And,the"changed leaves",have not reverted back to original tear drop shape,or dropped, as I had hoped. With the change in season, returned it outside,remaining potted... and incresed fertilizer applications ... Changed leaves are healthy and numerous. Any info much appreciated

I am always standing at my 33" single sink and saying how much I love my kitchen. Such a simple thing that makes such a big difference. Even DH likes it because we can both stand at it and do two different things at the same time. As far as cleaning the stainless grid, I fill the sink until it is completely immersed in hot water and add a splash of chlorine bleach, let it sit for 10 minuets. Then I rinse. Presto, clean grid.