Nevadans?

[horseshowmomnv]

I would agree, if people aren't upside down in their mortgages, or credit is tanked they are fortunate, the rare few are still above water and with good credit. The economy has hurt the majority, so thank goodness we have found productive way to entertain ourselves... Chickens

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I found this site today... this is right up my alley! http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/turn-trash-into-useful-items-for-your-garden.htm

15 "Trashy" Ideas for Your Garden
1. Cut up a plastic milk jugs to make plant markers.
2. Make a planter from a reusable shopping bag.
3. Turn a plastic five-gallon bucket into an upside-down tomato planter.
4. Turn a plastic storage bin into a self-watering container.
5. Grow potatoes in a black plastic garbage bag.
6. Reuse vinyl window blind slats as plant markers.
7. Turn old silverware into plant markers.
8. Make garden cloches out of two-liter soda bottles.
9. Reuse mesh onion or potato bags in your garden -- they can do more than you think!
10. Make a handy irrigation system for your potted plants with a plastic water bottle.
11. Reuse common items for indoor seed starting.
12. Make seedling pots from toilet paper tubes.
13. Reuse milk jugs in your garden as cloches, scoops, even to provide water for the birds.
14. Turn a food container into an upside down pepper planter.
15. This is too cute -- turn a garden loveseat into a planter.


I have done: 8, 10, 11, 13
I plan to do (before I even found this site): 2, 4
I do not recommend: 5, 14. I wonder if the author has even tried those.
And #3... it's a 5-gallon bucket. Might as well turn it rightside up and have the plant grow like it should.

 

[NevadaRon]

Forgot to mention, if we had more land I would have a dairy cow, some pigs, and a beef cow... Darn county ordinances, two hoofed animals on anything less than 3/4 an acre. Time to move to the farm????

horseshowmomnv and

NV thread! A month ago you could have rented the 10 acres behind me, but someone just moved in last weekend. It's a pretty nice place, too - between me and the Carson River, nice and level, can't see any neighbors except for me and the house next to me. I love having that much land. My house is a little smaller than I would have liked but it's worth it for the rest of it!

 

[NevadaRon]

I found this site today... this is right up my alley! http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/turn-trash-into-useful-items-for-your-garden.htm

15 "Trashy" Ideas for Your Garden
1. Cut up a plastic milk jugs to make plant markers.
2. Make a planter from a reusable shopping bag.
3. Turn a plastic five-gallon bucket into an upside-down tomato planter.
4. Turn a plastic storage bin into a self-watering container.
5. Grow potatoes in a black plastic garbage bag.
6. Reuse vinyl window blind slats as plant markers.
7. Turn old silverware into plant markers.
8. Make garden cloches out of two-liter soda bottles.
9. Reuse mesh onion or potato bags in your garden -- they can do more than you think!
10. Make a handy irrigation system for your potted plants with a plastic water bottle.
11. Reuse common items for indoor seed starting.
12. Make seedling pots from toilet paper tubes.
13. Reuse milk jugs in your garden as cloches, scoops, even to provide water for the birds.
14. Turn a food container into an upside down pepper planter.
15. This is too cute -- turn a garden loveseat into a planter.


I have done: 8, 10, 11, 13
I plan to do (before I even found this site): 2, 4
I do not recommend: 5, 14. I wonder if the author has even tried those.
And #3... it's a 5-gallon bucket. Might as well turn it rightside up and have the plant grow like it should.

Yeah I've tried the upside down tomato plant thing and it just doesn't work. At least I couldn't get it to...

 

[horseshowmomnv]

horseshowmomnv and

NV thread! A month ago you could have rented the 10 acres behind me, but someone just moved in last weekend. It's a pretty nice place, too - between me and the Carson River, nice and level, can't see any neighbors except for me and the house next to me. I love having that much land. My house is a little smaller than I would have liked but it's worth it for the rest of it!

Would love to have more land but we own, and about even in our mortgage, so selling is not an option. It is all about the land!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

I would agree, if people aren't upside down in their mortgages, or credit is tanked they are fortunate, the rare few are still above water and with good credit. The economy has hurt the majority, so thank goodness we have found productive way to entertain ourselves... Chickens

I just went to one of my glass distributors down in Oakland, for my stained glass store and the place was half empty! They're closing! I've been buying wholesale stained glass from them for over 12 years! I've been in business over 30 years and I've never seen such times.

 

[horseshowmomnv]

Patty is the same. She isn't getting any bigger so perhaps that's a good sign. She's moving around in the run like all is good. She does go into the coop though thinking she needs to lay an egg perhaps or just wanting to watch the others lay their's.

Glad to hear that she looks like she is feeling better!

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Yeah I've tried the upside down tomato plant thing and it just doesn't work. At least I couldn't get it to...

You just plain can't beat the natural order of how things grow. I see so many Topsy Turvy planters in the garbage. I have a friend who keeps asking me to buy a tower garden apparatus that her company is selling, telling me how I could grow so much food without garden space. That's one thing I DO have is dirt, and a well-planned organic gardening system just plain beats anything manmade, no matter how cool the idea is.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I just went to one of my glass distributors down in Oakland, for my stained glass store and the place was half empty! They're closing! I've been buying wholesale stained glass from them for over 12 years! I've been in business over 30 years and I've never seen such times.

There are so many places here that have gone out of business. It seems like, if you can't provide something crucial or don't have a big name to stand behind, your business isn't going to do very well. Reno's had a raw foodie restaurant, a make-your-own-candles shop, a hawaiian-style burger joint, some great ideas. Just not great enough to pull in the business. There was even a laundromat in a really old neighborhood that had a sign reading, "30 years, same owners!" and last year it shut down.

 

[chicharomirinda]

those are good ideas, Missy. I have seen several of them on pinterest, too.

My husband is a good sport helping me with my projects. He is my muscle and I couldn't get all of these things done without his help. that being said, he would never have the inclination to do any of it himself. We are very different in that respect and it works out just fine.

We bought our house very near the peak of the market. At that time we were ready to buy and were worried we'd be completely priced out of the Reno area market. that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.