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igenlodeSome of my clothes came out of the wash with mould stains on them :-( I can only assume that it was because I used the 'overnight' setting, which delays the final drain/spin cycle until the user returns and manually triggers it... although the irony is that I did so specifically in order to avoid the washing cycle finishing while I was out and the damp clothes sitting around for hours inside the machine! And I have used it numerous times before with no problems...
I tried soaking the affected items overnight in a gallon of water with half a cup of vinegar in it, as suggested, and then tried using a toothbrush and undiluted vinegar to scrub the stains. Neither expedient had any perceptible effect, so all I can do is put them in for another rinse and spin to get rid of the vinegar and then hang them out to dry, black spots and all. You're supposed to put mould-stained garments through a hot wash to kill the spores, but that's a bit difficult for items that aren't supposed to be washed above 30C and ideally should be hand-washed only :-(
Fortunately we have a little bit of sunshine this afternoon.
There has been no sign whatsoever of any life from the narcissus bulbs that I planted out, but I am not altogether sorry about that, as I can't really spare the pot space and would have had to lift them anyway come summer. The bulbs were quite possibly already dead when I was given them, since goodness knows what conditions they had been stored in, let alone how old they were...
[Edit: the box says 'display until December 2021', so they were definitely elderly.]
To my surprise, almost everything seems to have survived the frosts and two inches of snow quite happily, even the baby garlic and the young strawberry plants. The mesembryanthemums didn't, unsurprisingly, and neither did the coriander or marigold seedlings; the adult marigold had finished flowering, died back, and was over. The rudbeckia still seems to be alive. The lettuce-leafed basil survived an unexpectedly long time on the kitchen windowsill but has all been eaten and/or died :-)
For reference, apparently the silvery-leafed plant is mullein.
My Roma tomatoes have successfully gone red (and need using up) after being stored in temperatures of around 16C for a month or so... all except one, the smallest. Presumably that was the last to set, and failed to reach whatever point of maturity is needed for the fruit to start ripening?
The silk shirt that I repaired back in April 2018 -- by taking off the cuff, trimming a quarter-inch off the sleeve where it had worn through at the cuff seam and replacing the cuff -- wore through again at the new seam (this is clearly a weak point in the construction), and I was going to throw it away, having obtained a replacement in warm brushed cotton. But in the end I weakened and set to undoing my own sewing (with its tiny-weeny stitches) and shifting the cuff another quarter-inch up the sleeve. Of course the sleeve gets slightly wider every time you trim a bit of the end, so has to be gathered into the cuff, causing a further degree of complexity...
I didn't bother attempting nearly such tiny stitches this time!
I tried soaking the affected items overnight in a gallon of water with half a cup of vinegar in it, as suggested, and then tried using a toothbrush and undiluted vinegar to scrub the stains. Neither expedient had any perceptible effect, so all I can do is put them in for another rinse and spin to get rid of the vinegar and then hang them out to dry, black spots and all. You're supposed to put mould-stained garments through a hot wash to kill the spores, but that's a bit difficult for items that aren't supposed to be washed above 30C and ideally should be hand-washed only :-(
Fortunately we have a little bit of sunshine this afternoon.
There has been no sign whatsoever of any life from the narcissus bulbs that I planted out, but I am not altogether sorry about that, as I can't really spare the pot space and would have had to lift them anyway come summer. The bulbs were quite possibly already dead when I was given them, since goodness knows what conditions they had been stored in, let alone how old they were...
[Edit: the box says 'display until December 2021', so they were definitely elderly.]
To my surprise, almost everything seems to have survived the frosts and two inches of snow quite happily, even the baby garlic and the young strawberry plants. The mesembryanthemums didn't, unsurprisingly, and neither did the coriander or marigold seedlings; the adult marigold had finished flowering, died back, and was over. The rudbeckia still seems to be alive. The lettuce-leafed basil survived an unexpectedly long time on the kitchen windowsill but has all been eaten and/or died :-)
For reference, apparently the silvery-leafed plant is mullein.
My Roma tomatoes have successfully gone red (and need using up) after being stored in temperatures of around 16C for a month or so... all except one, the smallest. Presumably that was the last to set, and failed to reach whatever point of maturity is needed for the fruit to start ripening?
The silk shirt that I repaired back in April 2018 -- by taking off the cuff, trimming a quarter-inch off the sleeve where it had worn through at the cuff seam and replacing the cuff -- wore through again at the new seam (this is clearly a weak point in the construction), and I was going to throw it away, having obtained a replacement in warm brushed cotton. But in the end I weakened and set to undoing my own sewing (with its tiny-weeny stitches) and shifting the cuff another quarter-inch up the sleeve. Of course the sleeve gets slightly wider every time you trim a bit of the end, so has to be gathered into the cuff, causing a further degree of complexity...
I didn't bother attempting nearly such tiny stitches this time!