Robbie, to make learning easier, try going with same thickness materials to join. That thick with thinner is a harder weld to do. Also if your welder has a gas option, with solid core wire, that will be easier to see the weld. Also less splatter. But that also means buying a gas bottle and the fill of the gas mix. For steel, the usual mix is called 75/25. 75% Argon with 25 % CO2.Teaching myself arc welding with a low end Harbor Freight flux core wire feed;
Wow! That's a lot of potatoes in the foreground. We only have a single 20 ft row. Do you have potato beetles? We have to inspect our plants every single day and squash the eggs and larvae, or we'll harvest no potatoes.
Probably not a cougar. There was a deer standing in the street this morning and they usually disappear for a while after a big cat shows up.
I have lost about a dozen tomato plants this year also. They grow fine for a few weeks or more, then start wilting, then tip over. The stem just above soil level is very thin, and is being attacked by something..........a fungus, I'm pretty sure. Damping-off fungus is only supposed to kill very young seedlings, but whatever fungus is killing my tomato plants is able to weaken and kill much larger plants.
I don't know what I can do about this. The research I have done on soil-borne fungi basically says there is not a whole lot you can do about it, other than plant your tomatoes in a different area next year. The problem is, this is happening at various locations throughout my whole garden, so it's not restricted to just one small area. Frustrating!
You were lucky to get the refund that fast. Our Hawaiian cruise was cancelled in March the day before we were to leave.
We took the option to get a refund and a cruise credit. It finally showed up on my credit card account yesterday I was very patient, as I know they had to have many thousands to process.
