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Next Season Tomato Planting Plans -part II
Comments (36)For my planting for the coming season. 1. Cherokee Purple of course. I plan to have at least a 1 gal pot sized one to go in ground after LFD. Our season is so short for the first part you have to start bigger plants if you want to get many fruit off of it. If it is a large fruited variety it may be the only way here to get the full size fruit. 2. Bush Goliath will be planted again. Lots of slicer sized tasty fruit from a fairly compact plant. I plan on doing another of the Bonnie basket cage planter sized one. The one I planted last year gave the most fruit in the smallest space. 3. Black Prince it was tasty. It was compact enough. It was prolific. Fruit was early. I will use land scape fabric over this one to see if I can prevent the cracking issues I had. 4. Creole Hybrid a true work horse. 5. Mr Stripey will get a larger plant to start the season this year. The plant got huge though production was cut short by the heat. I have several of the greenies in a box wrapped in news paper. The taste is the deciding factor on this one. 6. Arkansas Traveler a crowd fave. A close second only to Cherokee Purple. 7. Park's Whopper Nice pretty, and good taste. My wife loved them for tomato sandwiches. I agree they are good. Way better than anything from the store. The plant was prolific till the mercury rose to over 100 during the day. Then production stopped, fruit that was set stunted, though the good taste was still there. Not planting again. 1. Homestead Heirloom I planted two of them year before last. Neither produced even one tomato. They were sickly the whole time. f 2. Heat Master got zip off this one as well. 4. Better Bush due to the fact that it has been replaced by Bush Goliath. The Goliath out produced better bush by a literal 5 to 1 rate. BB did produce. Fruit was good, not great. Tasted was good as a sliced in a salad tomato. My thing for this year is that anything I am going to plant from seed will be started way earlier this year. Also I will keep potting up, to keep from having to replant so many times, as I can take them back into the house if it is going to rain, then freeze. I will plant more than what I listed, the list is the just off the top of my head list....See MoreQuestion for GCs
Comments (2)It's probably the result of the big new house building boom. Building is slow around here. My husband is a semi-retired GC and we're doing a major renovation plus big new 2 car garage. The framers are doing the garage on weekends. The other subs fit us in around their other jobs. As the other poster stated, a sub's first loyalty is to the GC who gives them work year round and every year. You might simply have picked a bad year. Also, the time of year might be their busiest. A good sub probably has worked lined up for months and simply doesn't have time to do any new estimates. I realize a call back to say, sorry, I'm too busy would be nice but a lot don't. My husband started calling last fall for a June start date. When he called he said he wanted to get on their schedule. He also called again to apprise them that we really were going to start on a certain date. For small jobs you might want to mention that perhaps the work can fit into their schedule and you can be flexible (if you can)....See Morelayout option #623...thoughts?
Comments (31)Hang in there. Take a deep breath, sit back, and hear me out on a few...or several... points... Still offered out of the desire to help you get what's best for you, whether it's island or peninsula: I'm pretty sure we discussed and figured into exact inches this aisle size/seating thing a thread or two ago? There were reasons for you and the way you'd use the kitchen and island seating, that whatever the seating and aisle size decided then was going to work. I know we are rehashing some things we've been through before and that gets difficult from our side. Have you reviewed those previous discussions lately? It might help you think this through and see what your mindset was at the time, and see if you feel the same, or think you got off track back then. I don't get the thing about the bowling alley, because, as you've said, the thing you're complaining about is there in both plans. And still will be. I am not seeing how it will look different in the different layout, and why you'd be willing to let that be a big consideration in choosing the best workable kitchen layout. Seating. If it's that important to you, then it's that important. I honestly don't feel the need to go for the peninsula plan just for that, because the table is just about where your peninsula seating is, distance-wise. I have a table at one end of my 19 ft long kitchen and I don't feel far from it when at the island and stove at the other end. The peninsula, like my table, is out of the loop in terms of workspace. I'm afraid it will only serve as little more than an additional table. You're giving up some pluses, in my opinion, to have it, but maybe they're not pluses, or big enough pluses, to you. I can't decide that for you, but neither should an aggravated cabinet maker's attitude. You mentioned that your kitchen feels narrow and tight now. THAT is a viable and large factor to consider. However, the proposed island layout is completely different than what you have with the stove in the island, back to back with the sink and dishwasher. The island, like you said, is too long, and on the floorplan, looks too close to the fridge. The oven and microwave are clear around the island from everything. I understand your fears of feeling the same, but I don't think this plan will feel like your current one, since the paths will work so differently. But if it's a claustrophobia type of feeling, I can't promise it will be better. The peninsula plan is pretty average. Not a terrible plan, but not one with any pizazz or really great features or pluses either. A couple specific notations about the renderings you've shown last: 1) Looking at the rendering above with the island, the fridge would work best across from the aisle in front of the stove...about in the center, not against the wall, which would have it opening into the doorway. That straight shot from the sink is what kept the fridge in an efficient work path and prevented the island from being a barrier. 2) I am not a fan of diagonal cabinets, especially as shown in the island plan without a regular upper cabinet on the window side. Those diagonals are meant to connect 2 adjacent runs of uppers and if there is not on one side, it's like a connector connecting nothing. They're large and awkward to be open ended like that. But that's cosmetic, and just my opinion. What seems odd to me is no matter what floor plans we've collectively worked out here until you get one you say you love just as it is, by the time it gets back from a cabinet guy and you post the drawing, things are different. The island is longer, the fridge location is changed, the cabinets are different... Are you making the changes between here and having them drawn up (which would be fine), or are the cabinet people using some sort of 'artistic license' they shouldn't just to put their own stamp on it (which would NOT be fine)? Breezy and I obviously are pushing for efficient workspaces, with ample amounts of workspace right in the areas where it's needed. Maybe you just need the floorspace. I'm not at all trying to insult you or say your needs/wants are less important than ours...Just different. We sure don't want to talk you into something you won't be happy with, even though we might like it that way. But we don't want the cabinet maker doing that either! You just got away from a GC who was doing that. YOU'RE IN CHARGE HERE. You're the one who has to live with the kitchen after they finish and go home to their own....See MoreI THINK I've ID'd all 24 of my succulents but one. How do they look?
Comments (28)Update: Some of the succulents I planted into gritty mix have been shriveling, which I thought was thirst, but watering didn't help... so I realized they're probably rotting. The tall sticks (which I thought were "Minima" Jades but after seeing a lookaIike at Home Depot, I think are actually Portulacaria afra) are definitely rotting away from the tips and new shoots down. :( So I think I need to pull these out, wash the old soil off the roots, remove any rotten parts, and let dry. I have a few questions: 1) if the stem is rotting, what does that look like, and how much stem/leaves should I remove? 2) Can I leave any roots if they look OK, and does drying them out kill them anyway? Or is this essentially like making a cutting and letting it callous and make new roots? 3) Once they dry can I just replant them where they were in the gritty mix? On a more fun note, I went to Home Depot yesterday intending to buy zero succulents and instead spent an hour taking pictures and purchasing 7 new ones! And to my delight, all but one had an actual species ID! Clockwise from top left: Kalanchoe marnieriana Crassula rupestris Crassula "Candy Cane" (with a warning that propagation is prohibited... how would they stop you?) Sedum rubrotinctum "Pork and Beans" Crassula ovata "Ogre Ears" Sedum rubrotinctum "Aurora" ???? that was on clearance with a bunch of very sick and damaged succulents, but it looks healthy enough to me! Here's a closeup of it - anyone know what it is? The Ogre Ears had mealy bugs so I doused all of them with 50% rubbing alcohol last night. I also watered them because their soil all seemed bone dry, which I'm learning maybe I really shouldn't need to do? :/ I want to transplant them to gritty mix today (and do it right this time! Wash off all the soil and let dry). Also at Home Depot, I think I was able to better ID some of my current succulents, like the Crassula ovata "Minima" (#8) actually being a Portulacaria afra. The original mystery plant could possibly be Sedeveria "Sorrento"? Though the leaves look bigger/fatter on this one than they were on mine: OR possibly Sedeveria "Jet Beads"? These leaves aren't bigger but they do seem fatter than what I have... Not sure either of these are it: #3 Could actually be Graptosedum "Blue Giant"? A very similar-looking succulent was labeled this at HD, but I can't find photos to confirm it online. Maybe it's actually Sedeveria "Blue Giant"? #6 I thought looked like a plant labeled Sedeveria "Harry Butterfield," but looking online, it doesn't look right to me... #18 Senecio vitalis (Narrow-Leaf Chalksticks) #19 Graptopetalum pentandrum - EDIT: Actually more likely G. superbum #22 Sedum adolphii (Golden Sedum), instead of Coppertone Sedum? Looking forward to anyone's feedback about replanting and ID'ing these! Thanks!...See MoreRelated Professionals
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