Hi cfed, I like the way your PVC looks in the garden, white is so clean looking. Unfortunately it will yellow. I don't want to be a kill joy, but, in my personal experience, I think you have bigger problems than yellowing PVC. Each of these happened to me the first year I used the Florida weave method. I think you really need a very sturdy post on the ends, they will probably be supporting a LOT of weight before the season is over. "I sunk a 1' length of 2" diameter PVC into the ground, leaving 4" above the soil line" Eight inches for your anchor is not deep enough, at least on the ends where the weight will be pulling it to the center. PVC pipe is quite flexible. I've bent it to make hoop houses. The 1.5" PVC will bend toward the center when you run the support twines higher and the 'maters lean on them, contributing to the likely hood of the end posts being dislodged. It is possible the pipes on the ends may split or break where the slits or nail holes are. "Between every 3 plants..." Three plants between posts is one too many. The center one is going to lean to one end or the other. If you had not put the slits in the pipe, I would have said that your twine would slide down the posts, making the slits was clever. IMHO, here are the solutions to the problems, which I suggest you may want to do before the plants get big enough to pull things down: Put Steel T-posts on the ends in place of the PVC pipe and bury them at least 18" (more if you have sandy or loose soil.) I do use cheap 2x2's in the centers, so your PVC should be fine for that. Steel posts will probably not bend toward the center, but you may need to anchor them with a guy wire at the ends. I had to, they really got to where they were leaning after a good rain or watering, but my rows were about 85-90' long with about 30 plants in them. I used wooden 2x2's for the posts in the middle of the rows. Take the end posts that you have replaced with the T-posts and respace them so that you only have twp plants between verticals. On the matter of tightening twine, I'd be interested in knowing how that works out. I wonder if you may have a problem because you tighten a lower strand that is older and you have added strands after that, you may not be able to tighten the upper ones. Here is what I do. I used my table saw (yep it is mine!) to rip a 2x4" into pieces about 3/4" x 1" x 8" (remember, I had 3 rows about 80' long) and when a section got too loose, I'd take one of my little "bats" and twist the twine around it and tie one end to the twine with another short piece of twine to hold it in place. If I needed to tighten it more later, I just moved the tie off it and twisted some more. It worked real well. BTW, do you deliver? That "pie" looks really good. Made me want to chew on my monitor! Bets Here is a link that might be useful: Good Florida Weave Tutorial

Next fold back the pattern at 1/4 and place a black square on the edge and pin, turn over and sew and iron open. Then trim at 1/4 and take square of the 1 fabric and place it at the edge of the black, Turn over and sew on line tuen over and iron open: Here I'm cutting at the 1/4 after the line: Continue on until you have all five block sewn at the top. Trim at 1/4 out from line 6. Place 2 3/4 inch piece of fabric wrong side up on top pf the small blocks pin and sew: Iron open then sew on the basting stitch around the out side of pattern trim: Do the same for fabric 2. Pin pattern pieces together carefully: Finished block:

You can see my picture of the Maltese puppy above. I continued to play with it, by adding spruce, gifts and snow picture tubes. When I was finished, I saved it to jpeg. It wasn't until I tried to email the picture to my sister that I realized the file size had grown to 612kb, with the additional picture tubes. Is this normal for a file size to increase with the addition of picture tubes or is there a step I missed? Until just recently, I used PSP 8 only for editing my pictures and knew little about the programs other functions such as layers, masks etc., so I hope my question doensn't sound too ridiculous. Judy

Ronnie, Good news on mine. The epoxy did harden and I really LOVE the gloss. I'll take a pix tomorrow and show you all. Because I have a different sign on each side, the epoxy did run onto the back side and make a bit of a mess. I used old tile to sit the sign on, upside down, with a ton of paper under that.I know I mixed up too much epoxy and lots of it ran over the edge and when it hardened it stuck the tile and newspaper to the sign. I think, after rereading your tut, i should have put the tile facing down with good side next to the sign. As it was, the old tile had a lot of drywall stuck to it and that got stuck to the epoxy and to one side of the sign. I did get it all peeled off and plan to do one more light coating on that side of the sign. Thinking I'll be brave and do Ms. Loggerhead tomorrow, though hopefully someone migh ttell me what I should do since I already used sealer on her. I also used sealer on this sign, and it did work.