I think mint just likes to be constantly moving into a new frontier. I can keep it going in a pot year to year, but it gets super root bound. If I pull the plant out of the pot, and chop it into thirds with a shovel, and repot, I keep getting high harvests.

Deer have lept fences and climbed stairs to get to my plants, and they’ll eat anything, including stuff that’s supposed to be “deer resistant” like tomatoes.

You can get the angles to match up pretty well by hand? I guess you could probably practice on random twigs.

How hard is that to cut with a normal knife?

You hit the nail on the head; tarping needs to be done when it’s warm out.

Here’s a good official source.

Not to try to oversell you or anything, but I wouldn’t write out ovens that have convection capability (often marketed these days as airfry). They cook faster, with more even temperature, and it’s literally just a fan to blow air around. It shouldn’t really have much effect on the price. I think it should theoretically make the temperature oscillation much lower, too. Personally, my dumb oven swings by like plus and minus 50 degrees F with a 25 degree offset. So if I want 350, it will bounce from 275 to 375. Newer, smarter ovens can have better control methods to maintain temp.

If your current oven heating element melted itself, I would suspect that there’s something wrong with the thermostat, so there may be additional parts that need replacing.

Sounds like a nickel sulfide inclusion.

Yeah, I’ve been completely ignoring typical timetables. Things like lettuce are hard now because it goes from frost to too hot quickly. I grow heartier greens like kale year round, and I’ve had tomatoes producing fruit into November.

Cold frames have been helpful, as have larger pots for seedlings so I can take them inside for any cold nights while buying a few extra weeks of growth before needing to plant them.

I’m in the midst of planning out some built-ins. When looking for inspiration, it is so annoying how many videos/blog posts, etc, on creating built-ins start with “buy IKEA cabinetry”.

If you are buying cabinets, you aren’t building cabinets. Yeah, there’s assembly involved, but watching someone buy a cabinet, and then just paint it and put different hardware on it doesn’t help me at all.

For example, I’m trying to figure out the right way to have the cabinet doors interface with adjacent window trim. I.e, do I cut the trim to fit the cabinet doors, or do I alter the cabinet doors to fit the windows trim.

The “ikea cabinet” people can’t have these choices cause it’s not possible to alter them since they are built of chipboard.

Plus you might be able to get government incentives for it.

In a similar vein, heat pump clothes dryers. Due to the way they work, they can dry your clothes more gently than a traditional dryer.

I was hoping someone more knowledgeable would chime in. Do you think it would be fair to say that for your average gardener, using OP seeds would make it easier to save them?

Cliven bundy has a proven track record of using whatever platform he’s given to promote vile extremist views. Baker creek giving him a platform to speak is either negligent, if they are claiming they never once googled his name, or an indicator of support for his views.

I lean towards the second interpretation. On the speaker agenda, he’s referred to as a “land rights activist”, indicating that that is a specific topic they knew he would discuss, and they didn’t just hear about him as a random watermelon farmer.

Looking at the speaker before him, too, they run a group that thinks you can just come down with a case of autism from eating GMOs and cure yourself with organic food, and they are also 5g conspiracy theorists. You don’t accidentally put those types of people together.

When called out about it, they basically defended their choice to invite him, even though they could have disavowed him.

Seconding seed savers exchange. Most (all?) of their seeds are open pollinated. For anyone who doesn’t know what this means, it basically means that you can save seeds to regrow the next year.

Many types of seeds that you can buy do not enable this because they aren’t true to seed, or in the case of some gmo plants, they might be infertile.

When a hybrid plant is made, the genes are basically unstable. Remembering back to learning punnet squares in biology class, the offspring (seeds) from a hybrid plant can have a different mix of genes from the parent plants. For example, your hybrid tomato bred from one parent that had disease resistance but bad tasting fruit and another parent that had good fruit but susceptible to disease would give you a mix of offspring that can be like either parent, the hybrid, or the worst of both parents. Sometimes, over time, you can pick only three “good” ones and make sure they are only pollinated by other “good” ones by bagging flowers and hand transferring pollen. With open pollinated plants, none of that is necessary.

CAD is a bit like programming, there’s a lot of ways to do any given task. That can make it tricky if you are doing some tutorials that use one workflow, and then start doing tutorials that use a different workflow.

If you want to learn it, do yourself a favor and take time to find a tutorial that goes from start to finish doing the type of project you want to do so you don’t get frustrated when you get midway through.

Like others said, if you are used to doing something in a different CAD software, you might find that the same workflow is clunky in FreeCAD, but if you start out with a workflow that works well in FreeCAD, you are fine.

Seems like a lot of great changes

I overwintered some peppers once by just bringing the plant inside and throwing it under a grow light. So not really doing the “prune and make it go dormant” approach that seems popular.

I did accidentally do that once when a frost killed all my leaves/soft stems, and I just put the pot into my basement expecting to plant something else the next spring. When I put it outside the next spring, new growth came off the dead-looking woody sticks.

I had similar happen once. Look at the connection between the drain and the tub itself. For me, the plumbers putty that was in there was old and had gotten gross and cracked. It was fine when I showered, but when I put enough water in to fill the tub, it broke through with a leak. The water pooled up on a bit of subfloor, and dripped from there onto the drywall below. Even after the tub was empty, there was still some dripping till I dried everything out.

What I had to do was just remove the drain, and reapply new putty. It’s possible you have putty, or a gasket, or caulk in there that has failed. It’s probably a pretty easy fix for you to replace it.

In addition to the fact that there are different varieties as people have noted, plants change as they age. A nice, new seedling will sometimes be softer, and gradually get more woody as time goes on.

I’ve seen this with rosemary and with thyme.

I just read into it a little bit. Seems that I was wrong, and “tar paper” is typically not completely waterproof, it’s just water resistant. Most stuff these days isn’t technically tar paper, either, it’s roofing felt. I guess it’s only called paper if it’s made from cellulose. Apparently they did make the felt from asbestos back in the day.

Seems like it’s definitely common enough to use it under flooring, especially if it’s a thinner grade.

I haven’t heard of tar paper being used as underlayment, but I have used big rolls of paper for that. In my understanding, the point for the paper is to allow the wood to be able to move seasonally, and to prevent squeaking.

I don’t think I’d want to use tar paper, though, cause it’s hydrophobic. Whatever finish is going on the wood is going to also be a water barrier, and it’s a general rule of thumb to never have 2 water barriers next to each other in a house. That’s how you get trapped water that can damage stuff. If you spill water, and it makes it in a little gap between floorboards, it could just sit there indefinitely.

I could be wrong, though.