OK, I started using 1 gal milk jugs because aeration in 5 gal buckets with one, or four hoses (as I use) was hit and miss. It is imperative to get lots of O2 to the critters. Using gallon jugs, I brew 2 of them each day...each with 2 aquarium air pumps (2 hoses each). These supplies more VERTICAL aeration (which more effectively affects the growing biology). Because it is so easy to keep it going continually, I brew those 2 gallons of tea EVERY DAY for a few days each week depending on the weather forecasts and so forth. Basically, I deliver fresh-brewed tea to my plants/soils about 5 out of 7 days each week. When I get bored with it, I put the procedure on hold for a few days. Advantages: Less clean-up with continual brewing, routine-like 20-minute procedure. Don't have to spend much $$ on pumps to get proper amounts of O2 dispersed properly. Disadvantages: none. Getting more O2 to the entire brewing biology is my main concern. After the routine becomes ROUTINE, it all makes a lot of sense.

I've been lurking on here for months now (usually hang out in the Texas Gardening Forum), so I guess now is as good a time as any to jump in! (Jump in before I start asking for help of my own) Anyway...Liz, I feel your pain! I went through the same thing with my DR. Tried SW Mannered Gold, Gallant Gold, Restrained Gold and a slew of others. While I LOVED the colors, I just didn't like them in MY DR. I ended up using SW Baguette. I felt like I was settling, just wanting to get it finished, but when the painting was complete, it was EXACTLY what I was looking for! A nice warm gold, a touch of "mustard" along with a little tan. It really surprised me. Don't let the swatch card fool you, give it a try! Michelle

You have to decide which is best for you, time and expense wise - but if it were my house, I would keep the garage door Rockport Gray, paint the trim around it black to match your new door, keep the shutters black, and use paint as suggested to minimize the huge white blob of the front windows. Or even think about painting that black also. You can go to the Sherwin Williams (or any major paint maker's) website, upload your house photo to the visualizer tool, and play around with different paint combinations until you are confident in your choices.

I put heavy duty black plastic bags over them. If they can't photosynthesize, they can't live. Not pretty, but it works. ==>> but this wont work as well on trees that can sprout along the roots . i suppose there is a name for that .. but it is escaping me right now ... so if you did that on that type of tree.. you might have sprouts for many dozens of feet along the shallowest root ... they dont technically need to be cut flush to apply the killer... a foot or 2 wont make a difference.. and you can cut the stump a year down the line if you want. .. this years growth should be easily hand prunable.. fill a container like this with undiluted round up or stump killer.. snip a trunk.. drip the killer.. and keep going until you get them all ... if you need.. leave one tree for the site line block.. but dont waste all your prior effort letting them all come back.. ken https://duckduckgo.com/?q=plochman+yellow+mustard&t=ffsb&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images