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Jun. 9th, 2011 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyThat flat tire took out the tube irreparably (rode a few feet too long on it, there are a dozen tiny holes). I had a brand-new spare in the garage, but it had dry-rotted. I guess in the future I'll keep my spare rubber in the basement, the garage gets very hot and very cold and probably has petroleum fumes and such, and I've had tubes rot there in the past. I should probably move my tires out of there as well.
Went to Meijers this morning, but they have nothing but those horrible "self-sealing" inner tubes. That's code for "won't actually self seal, but it'll spray gunk all over and make it impossible to patch. And we'll charge you double. Forget it, the bike shop will be open this afternoon.
They also stock nothing but 27" tubes. Now, 27" tubes will work in 700c tires, but they're not optimum. As far as I know, nobody has made 27" bikes for a decade. Maybe some of the department store crap bikes are 27", I don't know. It does lean me even more towards thinking that if I ever buy a touring bike it'll have 26" tires. You can ALWAYS buy 26" tires and tubes, at any department store and in any country in the world.
My tomato plants weren't terribly happy this year. I'm nursing some Big Boys and I think one Early girl and I think they'll make it and take off soon, but the Cherry that I put in the ground a few days ago died; I probably injured the roots. Next year I'm going to use rolled newspaper pots for everything. The cukes I started like that are happy.
...but Meijers doesn't open their garden section until some late hour like 8AM or something, so I went across the street to Lowes. It's too bad I didn't need Big Boy tomatoes or one of the ridiculously-sized tomato plants, because they have literally hundreds of those. They had ONE SPOT for cherry tomatoes, which means maybe 16 plants (2 flats) and of course they were gone.
So I grabbed one grape tomato plant. What the heck, I've got a couple of empty spots. Maybe we'll find a cherry tomato plant somewhere else.
Next year I'm going to put some work into a more proper seed starting system. I really need to have a cold frame, and perhaps a heated base for sprouting, they seem to be pushing that stuff. Just getting them up out of the basement and into actual sunlight would probably help a lot.
Went to Meijers this morning, but they have nothing but those horrible "self-sealing" inner tubes. That's code for "won't actually self seal, but it'll spray gunk all over and make it impossible to patch. And we'll charge you double. Forget it, the bike shop will be open this afternoon.
They also stock nothing but 27" tubes. Now, 27" tubes will work in 700c tires, but they're not optimum. As far as I know, nobody has made 27" bikes for a decade. Maybe some of the department store crap bikes are 27", I don't know. It does lean me even more towards thinking that if I ever buy a touring bike it'll have 26" tires. You can ALWAYS buy 26" tires and tubes, at any department store and in any country in the world.
My tomato plants weren't terribly happy this year. I'm nursing some Big Boys and I think one Early girl and I think they'll make it and take off soon, but the Cherry that I put in the ground a few days ago died; I probably injured the roots. Next year I'm going to use rolled newspaper pots for everything. The cukes I started like that are happy.
...but Meijers doesn't open their garden section until some late hour like 8AM or something, so I went across the street to Lowes. It's too bad I didn't need Big Boy tomatoes or one of the ridiculously-sized tomato plants, because they have literally hundreds of those. They had ONE SPOT for cherry tomatoes, which means maybe 16 plants (2 flats) and of course they were gone.
So I grabbed one grape tomato plant. What the heck, I've got a couple of empty spots. Maybe we'll find a cherry tomato plant somewhere else.
Next year I'm going to put some work into a more proper seed starting system. I really need to have a cold frame, and perhaps a heated base for sprouting, they seem to be pushing that stuff. Just getting them up out of the basement and into actual sunlight would probably help a lot.
