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chickendreams24 said:
Just reread my message... I sound crazy lol well I don't care. We don't have the money nor the frame of mind to go out and buy flowers new every year. Geraniums can survive decades if brought in up here yet people go out and spend hundreds of dollars on flowers every year. It makes no sense to me. I have seeds from my petunias last year that I plan to plant and enjoy. We would rather be able to do for ourselves and its nice knowing that I can. Does that make sense?
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Yep. Seed saving basically?? I was just skimming :rolleyes:
 
chickendreams24 said:
Yeah that's a bummer, Dan. I admit I was devastated when Bella ate 8 inches of my tree and then ate the new growth a second time another three or 4 inches. It is still recovering. See it took me about six tries to get my first tree started. Unfortunately the window I was putting them in at that point was so drafty it took them months to do anything and then they died anyway. And I love my plants I put a lot of work into them and they really have helped me during the winter. It gets so bleak up here that any green let alone flowers is such a blessing. Last year I had two pots of petunias inside flowering into February before I lost them. I think they were just too worn out. This year I'm going to have way more than I had planned as we started strawberries both from seed and from root. But they weren't put outside because last year our great dane dug up and ate strawberry roots four or five times. You seeing a pattern? Lol so we wanted them to have the best start but I think it is too late to put them out now and after losing 40 last year they are staying in. We also have geraniums and aloes and a mini rose bush and a Christmas cactus. I may be forgetting something. We also have a mixed pot of greenery from my DH2B's grandmother's funeral. Needless to say another mini greenhouse is in order. I hope everything makes it. Of course I know they're just plants but its nice knowing I can keep them alive and like I said they bring us joy.
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Yeah. Ah, I see. I can totally feel you, I'm a bit of a plant-aholic myself
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I save seed from EVERYTHING that I grow
chickendreams24 said:
Just reread my message... I sound crazy lol well I don't care. We don't have the money nor the frame of mind to go out and buy flowers new every year. Geraniums can survive decades if brought in up here yet people go out and spend hundreds of dollars on flowers every year. It makes no sense to me. I have seeds from my petunias last year that I plan to plant and enjoy. We would rather be able to do for ourselves and its nice knowing that I can. Does that make sense?
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Yup
 
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My first tree it would probably be about a foot maybe two taller. See all the light green new growth? And it has its first branch :) :) :)
 
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