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[T Hi]

Jeez CR I get on here and you leave!! You're lucky I don't get offended easy!!!

 

[Imp]

Chickielady,
I like the nasties, but everytime I plant them, they get covered (and I mean covered) with black aphids. I mean truly covered like no green is visible. It is usually before any flowers start showing, so I never get to see flowers. I have given up on nasties in the yard. Any advice?????

Looks like my smart-aleck comments got by Rustler. Whew!!!

Nothing to add to the earthboxes/seeds/car conversations.

Imp- have never shopped at Sunbirds, and never will at this point.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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One day soon I plan on writing something up on what I have done.

I have some photos I will post tomorrow. I need to get some sleep before the next feeding.

Here is where I got the idea to make them. http://www.earthbox.com/

Sounds like Emma is up.

 

[Ogress]

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Mine were rectangular plastic planting boxes with a reservoir of water at the bottom. If I remember right, a plastic grid sits a couple inches up from the bottom, the soil is put on top of that, then whatever seeds you are using and a row of fertilizer on top of that, and then a reversible plastic mulch(black or silver depending on heat). About once a week you fill the water reservoir through a verticle PVC pipe that goes from the reservoir through the dirt and mulch. My plants grew extremely well in these. Prior to getting them, I had given up on a garden when I lived in Woodinville as my ward was nothing but a thick doug fir forest. I set my boxes up in wagons that I would roll around the yard, following the sun. (When I'd go to work, I'd roll them out onto my driveway). Easy! I think they are pricey though. Mine were gifts.

 

[DIYSeattle]

Ogress, I did collision repair for quite some while. The insurance companies job is to make money, and they will try. If you let them they will make even more. Many times they just write something out of their, well, that vacuum in their lower region that tends to attract their head. There could be a wide range of posibilities with your car without looking at it. The dealer also gets like 90 or 100 dollars or more an hour for labor, the non dealer may get 60 so theres a large difference there to consider, I do not know their actual hourly rates. Most of the labor should be from a book so that wshould be about the same as far as the time goes that it pays (say the book says 8 hours to change an engine regardelss of 60 or 90 dollars an hour). Theres a margin to approach for a total, like 70 percent of value, it depends, but the car does have a parts or salvage value as well. The less damaged the more its worth. Somtimes it is just better to take a total and make sure you get paid the fair price for it. They will try to not pay it to make as much money as they can, which is understandable, they are a business, to make money, not happy customers.

I would be interested in a seed trade. I took down my hydroponic run and am starting a new one to better use the small space that I have and have a couple weeks to trade seeds. I have a lot of seeds from various things I have traded before and saved as well. Some ornamentals, some veggies. I have a 6 or 8 foot 4 inch pvc run that is plumbed and drilled for 3.5 inch pots if anyone wants it. Theres no pumps or anything with it. No pots or anything either. Just the pipe with a place to put the in and out water and the holes for the pots to sit in.

 

[Rainwolf]

They look very interesting...

I just use a drip line system for water and black plastic cover over my rows and drip line.

 

[DIYSeattle]

he earthboxes lool like a planter with a drip tray/water tray except the tray isnt underneath the planter, but inside the bottom. Is that about the idea of it?

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

I uploaded some

My Dill

I have this in the house right now.

Pole Beans

 

[DIYSeattle]

Whats really the difference between them sitting in a tray of water? Is it that much difference? It seems that the water tray would have more oxygen in the water to get to the roots, I guess thered be not that much more O2. In hydroponics you want as much O2 inthe water as you can get. Ive not seent he earthboxes before.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Mine were rectangular plastic planting boxes with a reservoir of water at the bottom. If I remember right, a plastic grid sits a couple inches up from the bottom, the soil is put on top of that, then whatever seeds you are using and a row of fertilizer on top of that, and then a reversible plastic mulch(black or silver depending on heat). About once a week you fill the water reservoir through a verticle PVC pipe that goes from the reservoir through the dirt and mulch. My plants grew extremely well in these. Prior to getting them, I had given up on a garden when I lived in Woodinville as my ward was nothing but a thick doug fir forest. I set my boxes up in wagons that I would roll around the yard, following the sun. (When I'd go to work, I'd roll them out onto my driveway). Easy! I think they are pricey though. Mine were gifts.

The Earthbox from Earthbox.com are around $70, I made mine for about $7 or $8, that is for tote, dirt, pete moss and plastic.