Seeds in the mail!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
When I started the garden project, I signed up on the gardenweb forums, great resource site and lots of knowledgeable people to answer beginner questions. Anyways one of the women (Robin) sent me a bunch of seeds in the mail, which I received today. The little packs are what they trade with, just 5-10 seeds in each, enough to sow, grow and save your own for the future.
There was a good mix of summer and winter crops so I have some to plan for fall sowing and some which I am sowing now. Speaking of which here are my seed propagators. I looked and looked around all the garden stores near us and found nothing remotely like seed propagators, so I picked up these cooking pans with lids at the dollarstore. Good frugal alternative.
I've been emailing with my new internet gardening buddy Julie (hey Julie!). She's in Orange County, and we've both started veggie gardens this year so we're bouncing idea's and information off each other! I mentioned to her about needing pots to sow my seeds and she reminded me about newspaper pots! I'd seen these online before and wanted to try them so I grabbed the local paper and got to work. Just trimmed the paper, wrapped it around a can, and squish in the ends for the base. Works well! You can see here that I got 18 in the tray, though I could have squeezed in one more row I think.
I wasn't as pleased with these as I was with my other containers, which were toilet paper tubes. Have to say TP tubes win hands down, but the newspaper would be a great alternative.
The next thing I need is more plant markers. I've used margarine tubs cut to size, and Popsicle sticks as in the photo above (though these are craft sticks from scrapbooking rub-ons). I searched online and saw that people are making markers from verticle blind slats. The blind in my office needs shortening so I am going to cut those soon. Amazing how you can find everything you need online nowadays huh?
The next thing I need is more plant markers. I've used margarine tubs cut to size, and Popsicle sticks as in the photo above (though these are craft sticks from scrapbooking rub-ons). I searched online and saw that people are making markers from verticle blind slats. The blind in my office needs shortening so I am going to cut those soon. Amazing how you can find everything you need online nowadays huh?
Posted byDi Hickman at 1:17 PM
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