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Garden 2020: Well That Escalated Quickly About a month ago I started getting ready to plant some seeds. Original plan was to start some cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and watermelon plants form seeds in the basement shower that isn't used. Well with the whole covid-19 thing going on those plans changed. No way I was going to make trips to greenhouses to buy flowers so those got added to the list too. Luckily I have a bunch of seeds as you can see from the above…
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Gardening: How To Get Good Soil It seems like compost piles became all the rage to getting good soil for your garden. Well I tried that a few years back and have to say it's a real pain in the butt. You have odors, bugs, and need to stir it. Not only that but it takes up valuable planting space. So as we head into planting season I thought I would share the good old fashioned way that resulted in my good garden soil. Basically it's an old fashioned way of composting. It's…
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Gardening: How To Make Your Own Starter Pots It seems like you can never have enough starter pots around (except when it's not planting season and they are taking up space). In addition to saving all the ones that come with bought plants I started making my own. It's something real easy to do and they are basically free from recycled trash. What you need: Drill (cordless preferred) Drill bit about 1/4" to 3/8" Spray paint (cheap) Suitable plastic container Start by saving…
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Gardening: How To Make Your Own Labels One of the problems I ran into when I first started planting seeds was labeling them. I tried a number of things over the years. First thing I tried was writing the names on popcycle sticks with a marker. Names wore off in no time. So then I bought paint markers. Same thing. Next I bought multi color popcycle sticks. Well those lasted a bit longer but by mid summer the color had worn off. The thing that worked the best was using…