Do You Enjoy Tracking Your Package?
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How do you keep track of your roses?
Comments (33)I have about three hundred varieties of roses and about five hundred plants, and I'm not nearly as organized as I should be. For me, and I guess for anyone who has a lot of roses, multiple strategies are essential. I have my roses listed on HelpMeFind under the name "Il Giardino ai Papa". This list is mainly for those who want to know what roses I have (for exchange purposes, for example) so that I won't have to mail either a computer file or a bulky paper list. Then I have my critically important Excel spreadsheet, sorted by rose class, then rose name, and including plant source, ease of propagation by cutting, and space for comments. I don't keep information here that I can readily access elsewhere. I have a paper printout of my spreadsheet that I take notes on, and I update the spreadsheet online annually, generally a job for late fall when I know what has survived a year in the garden, as we also plant at this time. I have a garden notebook, much neglected lately, but in which I keep all my plant orders and invoices of shipments received. Labeling the rose is where I break down. I keep the nursery labels on the plant, then, at least in theory, I add a more permanent label, in my case using ones made of Tyvek, available in a roll of 1000, and written on in pencil. I've used aluminum labels that you impress with a stylus of some sort, but have found that they're hard to see on the plant, especially the many-caned, leafy, once-flowering old roses. The pencil-written Tyvek labels are durable, but they get lost, disappear in the foliage, have to be shifted to a new cane when the old one dies or is pruned away...all kinds of things happen. So maps are important. I have some of my garden mapped and need to map much more of it, plus update the maps I have. All this is complicated by mis-named roses. Roses arrive mislabeled by the nursery; or they've been in commerce for years or decades with a wrong name; or cuttings come from friends, named, misnamed, or with no name at all; or mystery roses arrive to take up residence, with no one involved having any idea at all what variety they are. These roses add considerably to the confusion. (I mostly have old and older roses, where these problems are perhaps more common than among modern varieties.) Melissa...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 MoreWhat do you enjoy on your oatmeal?
Comments (43)Everything that I had in mind has been mentioned, and quite a lot more. I usually rotate oatmeal, cream of wheat (farina) and multi-grain, similar to Red River Cereal, in winter, sometimes in summer. Got a bucket of flax from brother's farm tenant when I visited and have ground some in the blender, to add to the mix in the bread machine, but will have to try some in the cooked cereals, as well. Memo to Lindsey CA, Making oatmeal at home is easy, takes little time, is really nutritious and is about the least expensive food available. If one uses the large flaked kind, it may add to the experience to put the dry material into a pan/bowl and add water to let it soak overnight, which is quite useful also if one is adding raisins, as it gives them some time to bulk up in the water ... or one can drop a few raisins into a mug and add some water to let them soak overnight, as well. Dressed up with some of the wide variety of suggestions offered herein makes it not only tasty but a real adventure. ole joyfuelled...See More
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