What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

Nice. I always get their catalog but have never ordered from them.

My impression is that they are selling to farms, including those that sell at farmers markets (so smaller to micro farmers, and using greenhouses). Descriptions indicate this. They have good info on disease resistance too.

 

[Acre4Me]

I'm trying onions from seed for the first time. I usually buy 300 or so plants from Dixondale, but they are getting expensive. Last year they didn't do well but could have been the weather.
I found Patterson seeds from seeds and such . I'll see if I can grow those. I will have time to order plants if these don't germinate well.

I’ve had great luck with starting Patterson from seed. You can give them a “haircut” if they get too unruly before you plant them.

 

[Sally PB]

Finding alternatives also gives me something to think about - better than the state of the world these days.

I need this kind of thing too. Watching the news makes me angry. And I can't go take it out on the weeds this time of year.

I watched a program where they said it costs a company more money to recycle and reuse plastics then using new plastic material. If we cannot change that situation, there is little to no economic benefit for a company to reuse plastics in their products. I hope that changes. If used plastic had more value than new plastic, then I think we could start to reduce plastic waste in our environment.

Yes, the numbers don't lie about this kind of thing (if reported honestly!). What we MUST do (IMO) is find better ways to recycle. Or build batteries for electric cars. Or whatever we can do to keep from killing the planet and ourselves. I don't know if we'll learn fast enough. Rant over.

Borage: bee magnet!!!! So, this will be a permanent plant in/around the garden.

Plant borage once, and you should have it forever! It readily reseeds itself, and you can save the seeds if you want to plant it in other places. I bought borage seed once, about 5 years ago.

 

[CNJ]

Yes it's easy to get sucked in, sometimes it's not even the same company.

It was so powerful with the cure high blood pressure claim and Shark tank fake employee testimony...
My Bitdefender anti-virus just blocked its email address saying I had something in my cart, and my Bank just sent me a suspicious activity report and listed that site as declined.

 

[WthrLady]

here's one for you....
You cannot, by law, but X, Y, or Z in the trash here. It must be sent to the recycle center.
The countryside in this county has no recycle center. The city where this law originated started with 25 recycle centers when the law went into effect. But then it got to costly to keep emptying them and they would fill up quickly. If you lived out of town, you had to collect it all at home, load it in the car and haul it to the city.
THEN since town thought it was too expensive to keep the public sites open and emptied, they closed all but 3, which are constantly full to overflowing. Every time I went to town to drop mine off, it was full, making me store it in the truck and try again the next week.
That got old really quickly.
NOW people to avoid the full sites, PAY $40 a month to have it collected at the curb, in a special roller bin, by the same company as the trash company. So not only are we paying for pick up, there are extra trucks on the road burning diesel fuel to pick it up, and want to guess where it ends up since it is too expensive to recycle??
So basically, I'm spending $40 more a month thatnI was when I was just paying for trash pickup, using extra time and water (it all has to be clean before going in the bin), and more energy is being used to haul it around. Brilliant.
All for their feel good movement.

 

[WthrLady]

I liked it better in florida.
EVERYTHING went in the trash bins. Prisoners then sorted the trash on the moving belts and pulled out what was paying to recycle that week/month and it was pulled out.

 

[jerryse]

Trying this one. Also known as Gete Okosomin in the Maxima group.

 

[Nym]

I used to burn lots of cardboard, then I sent cardboard to the recycle center, but for the past year I have been shredding up our cardboard and using the shreds in the chicken coop as deep bedding. When I clean out the coop, the paper and cardboard shreds get tossed into the chicken run to compost in place. The shreds compost pretty fast and then they get put into my raised garden beds as finished compost in 4-6 months.

I have a big manual scissors, but it was getting too hard for my old hands to cut heavy packing cardboard without getting cramps. So, I bought a power cutter which cuts the heavy cardboard without any effort.

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Now I can cut up our heavy cardboard packing boxes we get from Amazon into 2-3 inch wide strips and feed them down my paper shredder at home. Makes gets shreds for coop bedding litter and later as finished compost for the gardens as I mentioned.

Just wanted to mention that option because I find shredding the cardboard to be more useful to me than when I used to burn it.

I will have to get a pair of those cutters! - thank you for sharing those. I don't make a habit of burning it. I had a run of buying online and ended up with several boxes. One was large enough to house my chicks for a few days. Some went in the base of hugelkultur beds, most were put in the recycle bin once they were wet from rain and could easily be torn. The quality of cardboard has certainly gone up a few notches recently.

 

[Nym]

I remember the little glasses that Welch’s grape jam used to come in. Those were our juice glasses for years.

My kids collected a whole set of glasses from peanut butter jars. There is a dedicated fb collectors page. I can't recall what motifs were on the set we collected.

 

[Nym]

We never got a minute of dry weather yesterday. The rain turned into drizzling and misting. The snow melt slowed down but hopefully will be gone before the fresh stuff moves in. When I was in the grocery store the other day I noticed a new product in the freezer section, squash fritters! Ok, who gave them our recipe. Lol!

It will never taste as good!