It's my understanding that as long as the electrical is set, I can have it installed later. I realize that they may not be available at the time everything else is installed. Waiting with baited breath for new Miele's to be released in the US. W/D (yes, they're in the kitchen) and DW shouldn't take long. ![]() I ordered everything that I knew I was getting from the same local appliance place when I ordered that. The only thing with a long lead time is the Bluestar 30' RNB in Cobalt Blue. Make sure all appliances will be on time and have their install instructions/dimensions on hand for the cabinet makers -Have you picked your hood? Range, hood, and fridge ordered. I'll probably change the tone slightly, but stay pretty basic on wall color. I think someone had the whole house sprayed swiss coffee at some previous point. We're just going to go with some version of off-white walls. Thanks firsthouse and BakerJen! -Pick wall colors I feel I can't do this until I see the granite (and cabinets) installed with this lighting. I'll probably plant last year's shriveled survivors, too, just because I feel sorry for them. And, I did buy about 20lbs of seed potatoes so I would have red, russet, Yukons, and some various fingerling types. The grocery store rejects are all large to very large potatoes, and I am just planting whole, so it doesn't make as many hills as planting small seed potatoes or cut pieces would. I've used a few to eat, since the last of my storage crop from last year is getting real sprouty and shriveled. It sounds like more than it was - I ran into a whole bunch of 10 lb bags of round white potatoes on the clearance rack at Meijer, all sprouty - couldn't resist, $1 a bag, so I ended up buying all they had, which was like 15 bags. If I have any leftovers, which will probably be a few, I'll stick them in containers. I have one more area to plant, roughly 60 x 15. Harvest - me and my pitchfork and some long, hot days in late August, no doubt. Almost everything is under black plastic or thick organic mulch. I have a big Troy Built tiller, but haven't used that except to make new beds. Tractor - nope, haven't had one of those for decades. But then again, they eat tomato foliage, so who knows. Raw potatoes for birds - I've done it for years without issues - I think the only problem might be with the green foliage, where the toxins would occur. How many people - three and a dog in my household, plus relatives and neighbors, and lots of birds (about 70). And, maybe they'll do poorly and not yield well? I have no idea what the return will be - a lot depends on the season/weather. Could I use all of those - not in a million years, but I can always give them away. The third spot is full of clumps of daffodils, so I just have to plant sort of at random around them. I didn't measure precisely, but tried to plant each hill roughly 24' apart, as I generally do. Lots of questions, thanks: Area - so far, this was about 100 x 10, 80 x 10, and 8 x 50. The second and third year is always better and by year #4 you will be on a roll. Problems will develop and you learn from them as you go along. They are always an experiment in progress. Trim whatever you have to to get them as much sun as possible. Quality and quantity decline as the number of hours of sun falls below 8 hours. No way to know if they will get enough sun without seeing the area. Low-growing herbs in front of them would work as long as you can still get to the plants to pick. The pepper and tomato plants will shade out anything you plant in between them so only shade tolerant things would work. Using standard spacing in 25 feet you can do 8 or 9 plants (ie: 5 tomatoes and 4 peppers or 6 tomatoes and 3 peppers or 4 tomatoes, 4 peppers and one stand of pole beans, etc.). Tomatoes and peppers get along fine but you don't want to alternate them as the tomatoes will shade the peppers. Whether or not you can plant anything in with the tomatoes and peppers depends on the # of tomato and pepper plants you plant. They are an early spring crop and won't tolerate the heat but green beans (pole beans) can be planted on a trellis on one end of your tomato/pepper patch. In your zone potatoes are normally planted in early spring as soon as the ground can be worked - say late Feb. ![]() You might get a few if you planted some store bought ones but it would be best IMO to pass on the potatoes for this year. Seed potatoes have been off the shelf for a couple of months now. For all practical purposes it is too late for potatoes.
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