New House Ruined by stain help
Courtney Rilling Romain
3 years ago
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The 'I sold house, new owner ruined garden' blues
Comments (34)I'm so sorry for all who have lost gardens; it's something I think about from time to time as I consider maybe moving ... and yet keep on gardening! Here's another "flip side" story. When we purchased this home 31 years ago in August, there wasn't much growing except a few clumps of "ditch lilies", a pair of poosly azaleas, one sorry boxwood, some leggy mountain laurel, and enormous plain green hostas ringing everything including the many tall old oak trees. No grass to speak of in this sandy soil, not even weeds! As eager as I was to start planting, I insisted to my dear young husband that we wait at least until spring, preferably a full year, so as not to disturb anything dormant that the previous owner might have planted. Well, we waited and were rewarded with ... nothing ... except the aforementioned undernourished specimens. Not even one daffodil. So ... I set about enriching the soil (I'd had a year to get some compost started, after all, and lots of oak leaves to shred), much to the amusement of one of my neighbors who insisted nothing would grow here. Have been amending and planting, failing and succeeding ever since, and the recent front yard re-do is finally the garden I'd always dreamed of, with roses and perennials shoulder-to-shoulder, jostling, embracing and supporting each other and peeking over-under-through the white picket fence. Today, for the first time in my life, I walked under - UNDER! - roses blooming on my own arbor (ok, there were only three up there, but there are more where those came from). That neighbor would never recognize the ol' place [big smile]. Did I say something about moving? There are some beautiful thoughts expressed in this thread to help any of us cope with that eventuality, particularly catsrose comment, "Put your love into your new garden and let it grow" and hoovb's paragraph that begins "The garden really is the gardener." Thank you all. Diane...See MoreHELP!! Brand New Glass Cooktop is Ruined!!
Comments (133)My glass top stove is only a week old and I have been super careful cleaning it every time. Today I accidently brushed a microtowel across while it was still hot and it burnt on and I have tried everything but it is not coming off....See MoreHelp!! I think i ruined my table top with the stain :(
Comments (2)You are all so going to LAUGH!!!! i almost cryed .. Here is the story: i was SO upset with all the streaks that i decided to spray some Orange Glo ( i do not work for any company that sells Orange Glo) and noticed that where i sprayed it went through the stain so i am was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO its getting even worst now---so i took my rag and went to remove the orange glo and what happened--YIPEEEEEEEEEEE it removed the stain --HOWEVER i have blisters in my hands now from doing it but it worked!! so more stains in my future I promissed -specialy the GEL KIND....See MoreNew Bermuda ruined by weeds! Help!
Comments (15)Wow thanks everyone for the comments and advice! To have a nice lawn is so much work and $ it seems both which we are low on lol. My husband just mowed the weeds yesterday so I'll take a picture when they grow more in a few days. I wish we could just burn it all and rollout the AstroTurf hehe, but we'll have to work with what we have. So what we did was bought a 2 gal. Sprayer and image weed killer concentrate. It only covered a small area so no I think my husband may have sprayed to much on the weeds? I thought it'd cover more but with those sprayers do you go over the whole yard in a sweeping motion because he painstakingly went weed by weed and spent hours just covering a small perimeter if our front yard. It did seem to kill a good variety of weeds just not enough to even cover the front yard. I wonder if a different type of weed killer would be better? Maybe the kind with quinlorac? We'd do the kind do the kind that you hook up with a house but our water pressure is terrible out here. Thanks again!...See MoreCourtney Rilling Romain
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