Do You Enjoy Tracking Your Package?
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Comments (8)Hmmm, let's see now. In the evenings I love to mess around with my siamese and two tuxedo kitties. And I also love spending time with my two poodles. (little rascals all of them, hehe) Spending time on dog and cat forums, as well. In addition, I very much enjoy a glass of white wine or two--wish I had some now but unfortunately I don't. :p Reading. Spending time on various artistic sites and blogs on the web also gives me much pleasure. Of course there are many, many other things I delight in doing, but I probably shouldn't write a book about them on your thread, lol. This is a fun topic, Rene!! :-) It's a pity that the "Conversations" part of the "Roses Forum" has mostly gone the way of the dinosaurs. People seem to prefer spending time on facebook, or other places on the web in lieu of that. At one time it was a "hot" place to visit. Have a super evening, Rene, and all!!...See MoreHow do you keep track of your daylilies?
Comments (27)Long time lurker here. I created an Access database for all my garden plants, including daylilies, and would be utterly lost without it. I can track all the plants I currently have, as well as all the ones I've lost over the years. I can run reports on different suppliers and see whose plants I kill most regularly and which survive my attentions. Unfortunately, as Julie said above, I can no longer deny that I am a plant addict. With well over 2600 entries (one for each plant) and a report that adds up the costs (what was I thinking when I wrote that one???), I can see my garden probably cost more than my car! Fortunately, here in the great, white north, rust will only be a problem with the car!...See MoreHow do you package your seed for trading??-Most economical method
Comments (5)Wintersowing-Seed Trade Packaging from Straws The following is a technique relating to Wintersowing. For those of you who havent heard of it, Wintersowing is a method of starting seeds for your garden. No need for complicated light setups or heat mats or any of the bother that starting seeds indoors using traditional methods is usually associated with. No need to buy expensive seed starting flats. You simply sow your seed in easily prepared, "found", recycled containers and set them out in the yard in the dead of winter. They freeze, they thaw, get snowed and rained on and, come Spring, grow. Sounds crazy but it works. Just like it does in nature. See http://www.Wintersown.org or the Wintersowing forums at http://www.Gardenweb.com for details on what types of seeds can be sown in this way. The method is also popular as it is a great method for recycling discarded plastic items into useful things. You can look at my other Instructables post for info on how to prepare these to be used. If there is one thing that Wintersowers love as much as collecting seeds itÂs trading them. Sow something, grow something, come fall harvest the seed heads and trade them with others so you can grow something new. Very cool way to gather a diverse number of plants you may not otherwise have access to. So, you have harvested a bumper crop of seed heads from some special plant, put some away for yourself but still have tons left. What is the most economical method of dividing them up and packaging them to be traded? To do this efficiently you need to divide and package the seed in some way and label it so you know whatÂs what. Many folks use tiny ziplock bags but these may be difficult to find. And there is still some cost involved. Others print out pretty full color folding templates to make seed packages much like the commercial companies use. Nice but printer ink is expensive and you still need to take the time to cut out and fold the envelopes. Got no time for that. Others just do little origami folded affairs but again, no time for that. So what to do? Plastic drinking straws (you can "find" these at all kinds of places you know) and pre printed cheap labels. Your Tools Radish Edible Amaranth Well you need some kind of label. Most word processing programs have the templates for standard addres labels built into them. You can open up the program and either input your info one cell at a time or, if you have a lot of one type of seed to trade simply print out an entire page of one label. Just print out on plain paper and cut the labels apart. A paper cutter is nice but scissors work just fine also. Plain text, draft mode is fine for this so itÂs economical. If you want to go further with color graphics or other embellishments your free to go nuts. OK, you have the seed and have printed up the labels. How do we divide and package. Take one end of the straw and fold over about an inch. Staple it closed. First Fold Slip the straw thru the seed to pick some up. You can easily meter out how much each has visually. Slip and Load Cut the straw down if need be, fold over the other end and attach a pre-prepared label sealing everything up with another staple. Folded and Labeled Now you have all your seed packaged and labeled and ready to go out for trade. Easy peazy. Enjoy Monte...See MoreHow do you enjoy the fruits of your labor?
Comments (34)Like so many of you here, I've always been very affected by my surroundings. Be it a classroom, a home, work, business, restaurant, shop, etc. Depressing-to-me places make me want to be anywhere else. Inviting places, do just the opposite. This need is what inspires and strongly urges us to create nurturing, beautiful-to-us places to live and work. I've personally felt this way as far back as I can remember. A four year old telling my mother that we needed to move the sofa here or a painting there . . . and drawing my own "paintings" on the walls where I thought they should be when she didn't comply, complete with frames . . . using her many lipsticks. I like that I've been able to create a warm, inviting, beautiful, nurturing home for myself, my family and friends. I did it with my first apartment and every place I've lived in since. And, yes, I love to enjoy my rooms and vignettes when they're finished. Our living room and master bedroom cocoon me. Our kitchen inspires me. Our family room is a great place to lounge with feet up on the coffee table and visit with family or friends. They invite me in. Make me smile. Nurture me. Admiring them comes with the territory (LOL). "Savor" is an even better way to describe it. These warm Summer days, it's my small, walled garden that calls me most often. My flowers are all madly blooming now. The fountain attracts all sorts of our mountain birds. The high adobe walls cocoon me, while still letting in the view of our mountains behind us. I love sitting out there in the morning, patio umbrellas open, and after dark with the garden and tree lights on, admiring and enjoying everything while I read a bit or chat with DH. It may not be everyone's perfect garden or home, but isn't that what makes each of our homes special? They work for us. Make us happy. Nurture us. And, if we're wise, we allow ourselves times to sit back and just savor it all....See More
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