Can I get oak wood to play nicely with others???
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I planted this nice oak in ... JULY (but I can explain)!
Comments (8)The picture looks like you've got about 8 inches of mulch on it, lol! Anyway, if it were not possible to plant container grown trees in the summer, the landscape and nursery industry would go belly up. Landscapes are installed in the full summer all the time, even in the deep south. Under proper care, even very large containerized trees can do very well if planted in the summer. By "very well ", I mean without all of this transplant shock hooplah I hear about. In my career, I've been in charge of many thousands of installations of all kinds. I've never hesitated to schedule a job for the summer. Also, when I had my wholesale container nursery, business sure as heck didn't slow down when it got hot. I'd be singing a different tune if this was a discussion about field grown plants. I'd make sure that the mulch layer isn't too thick. Two to three inches is plenty. Much more that and you compromise the workings of the soil system. Watering efforts should be concentrated to the root ball ; you'll probably need less water than you think. Judge how the watering is going by digging down with your fingers and feeling....See MoreFood storage and oven cabinet, can the two play nice?
Comments (4)I had a similar situation in my last house. An electric oven w/ pull out tray below & a tall storage area above. I didn't use it for much food storage. Stored pots & pans below & tall things like my vintage Hamilton Beach malt mixer & the KA mixer above. Also, the bags of chips went up there. That said, I never noticed any excess heat, particularly not below (heat rises). When you think about it, built in ovens usually go into wood cabinets so they must be quite well insulated so I wouldn't have any qualms about storing food there. Want to add that storage above the oven wasn't what I'd call easily accessible. Least ways, not unless you're quite tall. I'm 5'5'' & have a long reach--monkey arms! Personally, I would plan to store bulky, seldom used items up there or do a divided storage for cookie sheets, etc. Remember that the cabinet is going to be counter depth, approx. 24''. I remember grabbing a long wooden spoon to reach in & give a bag of chips a flip out of the cab & catching them before they hit the floor...that was often easier than dragging a step stool...See MoreHow can I get rid of a Silky Oak Tree
Comments (3)The local hardware store/garden centre sells them as $2 tubers. I'll bet most people have no idea what they'll end up with. The idiot landlord of a house in our street planted a row of them down either side of the block. Fast growing quick fix landscaping solution. They look about five or six metres now. Our neighbour has planted what looks like one about four metres from our house. He seems to have pruned it once or twice. Haven't seen it flower yet. Wish we'd put root barrier down that side. I don't really want to disturb the roots of our shrubs now by digging around but after reading the comments here I think I might have get a definite identification and do some careful investigation. Good luck mistymorn....See MoreLet's Play: "So nice, I saved it twice"
Comments (66)I consolidated all my Houzz pictures, eBay collections, bookmarks, favorites, and any other lists into Pinterest. I was able to sort out 25 years (1990 to date) of favorites. Dead links, why I saved something, read things I meant to come back to, and just the "what the heck!?" links. Now, I have absolutely everything in one place. (Don't worry, Pinterest is exportable.) I hate all these different places to save things, because who knows if you'll ever go back to them? On a bored day, (read: procrastinating) I go back through my Pinterest pics and enjoy them all over again. During that sorting process, I also scoured sources for pics I'd saved, authors, etc. I'm OCD that way. I did find that I had saved several cabinet type pics, things I can make, products I can use, beautiful architecture, stencils, wall paper, just plain good ideas, artwork (stop me) repeatedly, under many different categories. Wayyyyyyy too many times to count, but interesting in that although my tastes have certainly changed, just in the 10 years of my rebuild, that I still go towards the same feel....See Morethinkdesignlive
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