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Ready to give up -Just a rant - sorry
Comments (10)I've been building up a sandy soil here for 3 years and still have to water twice a day during the hottest, driest months to make anything grow. Most veggies I now start in pots in a shady area and transplant them in the garden when they are hardy enough. As far as selling vegetable transplants grown in pots, I find greens (unusual such as mizuna, red mustard, swiss chard, arugula) can be seeded outside in pots in Sept-Oct for sale in the fall market. As far as tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers, I seed these inside about New Year's Day to be ready for planting in early March. One other techinique I use is...just plant some seeds every week...who knows water the weather will be and some will take...goood luck...deb...See MoreWhy I get disgussed Just my rant here
Comments (34)Cdbob, I get where you are coming from, trying to do this "cheaply as possible" was what I was trying to do as well, but a few small & inexpensive purchases as Dave & others mentioned will work wonders, I agree. This is my first yr doing so & this past week I got our first harvest & the tomatoes were awesome compared to store bought! I used small containers like yogurt cups with holes drilled in bottoms & some cups (Solo red disposable cups you get at walmart, like what you would use for a bbq or kid's birthday party, they were 30 for $3.45 or something like that) & used soil-less seed starting mix (Jiffy brand form Walmart for $3.47 a bag, one bag more than enough for our small garden, Lowes also had Ferry MOrse & Miracle grow brand for similar price). I bought some seeds from some sources recommended here & got some from some generous people here for SASE and some from Trudi's website wintersown.org for sase also. I wanted to try different types to see what grows best for us here in FL. & what each person in the family likes best, but didn't have alot to spend, so this worked wonderful. The seed starter works awesome! I had tried seeds from store bought tomatoes and had no results worth anything except for seed from a purple cherokee I got at a store. Everyone here is very helpful & has lots of good advice. Try again using cups or something larger than the egg carton, I do use egg cartons but for germinating small flowers like pansies, violas & nasturtiums & use seed starting mix in the cartons for these. Good luck & give it a try using the info you got here. Visit Trudi's wintersown website for free seeds (she will sendyou small pkts of at least 6 types you choose for the cost of an envelope and 3 stamps, one to mail to her & two on the sase to return to you!) Good luck!...See MoreJust a rant on HGTV
Comments (38)We talk about that all the time. It's so refreshing when we see a show - currently I think Bargain Mansions may be one that does it - where people say, "Oh, this needs replaced/doesn't fit the design, but it's in good shape so we'll use it on another project." Very few do. We're about to redo our cabinets and hope to save some. They are solid oak and the boxes are SOLID...but they were built in place, have no backs and are nailed to the walls with really big, long nails. As we discovered taking out a vanity, you are unlikely to move them without a sledge and pry bar....See MoreJust a little rant
Comments (6)Robin It's irritating to us, but ppl are buying them...just like paint-sprayed plants (even worse to me). I copied parts of the post by Justin from Costa farms - he reacted to some of us ranting about these (crazy) marketing methods: ..."We do glue flowers on to cacti when it's requested by a retail customer. It's not something we do on our own"... ..."However, the indoor plant market is not growing. Fewer and fewer people are buying indoor plants. We are producing Desert Gems to try and catch the attention of new folks --- the ones who are "plant blind" and don't even notice indoor plants when they walk by them. It's our hope that we can attract their attention, get them to try a plant, and then be more open to growing traditional Houseplants in the future to grow the industry. Will it work? Who knows, but it's something we're trying. I know Desert Gems don't appeal to real plant lovers like me and yourself, but if there were more of us out there, we wouldn't need to try marketing gimmicks with plants in the first place"... -Just one of the threads on the subject-...See MoreUser
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