Josh Hoffman

Nina Wright wrote:Any recipes for without mayo?

It depends on what you are trying to avoid with not using mayo.

We make ours at home with egg, avocado oil, and vinegar.

Unfortunately, the standard that covers log construction/connection, ICC 400, does not have any reference tables and would require an engineer run the calcs and stamp the design.

The IRC has tables on sawn members but the spacing is 24" max and I don't think the dead load table for areas with lots of snow would be something you could compare.

I think the ICC has a section covering green roofs but again, they want you to engage a design professional.

I would trust it if someone with experience in log construction/connection and green roofs looked at it and said it was okay. This person does not need to be a design professional, just someone with experience, maybe someone on here has that skillset/experience.

If not, I would not want to be laying in bed during a heavy rain and wonder if the roof will collapse on me. I would repeat what you have there on 16" centers and sleep well or cover it with metal as is if I could not find an experienced person to advise me.

That is some very nice looking framing!

I don't have any improvements on the basic recipe ingredients listed in the excellent recipes above.

I tried mixing pickled beet juice into the yolks and I did like the added sweetness.

My favorite so far is to used eggs I have pickled with beets for a week or two and go from there.

As an example; I have this volunteer apple tree that came up early this year in one of my mulched garden areas where I grow cucumbers and watermelons and some other things.

I have no idea what variety of apple it is. I pruned the leader down above 5 scaffolds in May. It looks great, so I am hopeful, but it is a volunteer. I won't know if it will make fruit for several years because of what I mentioned above.

A very basic question:

I can see you are in zone 4b. Are the trees you have purchased appropriate for the chill hours needed and zone?

We cannot grow most apples trees, if we want fruit, where I am due to the low chill hours. We could grow almost any apple tree, but it would look kind of rough in mid summer and would never fruit. Hopefully that makes sense.

I say hard prune/topping because I am not sure which term is correct as I have heard people interchange them when describing the crepe myrtle pruning.

Joylynn Hardesty wrote:Thanks guys! I would like to keep it under 10 feet tall. Any tips on pruning?

We do not have any of these but our neighbors on both sides of us do. I talked to both of them about their style of pruning. The one neighbor did light pruning until they could no longer reach from the ground and then did no pruning. Theirs are about 25'-30' tall and in front of their house. The sun is on it's way up on that side so the picture is not the best.

The other neighbor does a hard prune/topping in late winter/spring to about 5' high on all the branches. That makes it shorter and bushier. That one stays 7'-10' tall. He has 5 total and they are all in that height range.

If you want short and bushy, do a hard prune/topping to 5'. I think there could be some controversy around this style where folks say you are stressing/weakening/killing the tree with the hard prune. I am not sure about that because the hard prune neighbor has been hard pruning his since 2004. Hopefully you get a good range of opinions in the replies.

I think I like the tall ones best but would not like them next to my house like my one neighbor has them in the pic.

Looks like Crepe Myrtle to me!

Great, I can give 3 apples a day instead of 1!

https://permies.com/wiki/52882/apples-forum-kind

Master Pollinator - 3 apples

I have had success dealing with different gnats and eggs by using a spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol to clean my bucket system components if I discover any activity. I do not dilute it when I fill the spray bottle but I imagine you could.