Ducks 4 in '24

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Forty foot? But, those containers are only 8 feet wide. One has to leave room for humans. Heated. Lights. Why not Build Something that would serve the purpose for a community of 900.

Price. Neighbor who bought farmland and has made it into a zoo with their newly acquired livestock, got 3 shipping containers, practically for the taking!
Also, there is a LOT of literature over the last 15 or so years for instructions about growing hydroponically in a shipping container.
A well built passive greenhouse doesn't cost you much except your time.
Here are the things that one would need to buy in order to grow in a shipping container:
1) constant electricity for
(a) lights
(b) moving the water and nutrients to the plants
(c) heat, (Alaska in the winter)
2) job Specific pvc (or some kind of plastic) piping
3) water source
4) plant food, soluble
It is probably expensive, but they are Selling the produce.
I have a few non gardening friends, and I ALWAYS tell them that you could break the bank by buying products from vendors, bc they are all SO expensive!

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I was thinking of fixing up my old and overgrown herb garden and planting the borage and the bee balm there.
Now, after researching, they should also be grown in my wildflower garden. They don't require rich soil and can handle some drought.
The anise should definitely start in a pot and go into a bed.

 

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Btw, 2 ft tall Redbud, $35.00 on sale

American Redbud Tree from Stark Bro's - Eastern Redbud Trees For Sale

The Eastern Redbud looks great in any landscape, in any season. Its rosy blooms announce the arrival of spring, and its lovely leaves offer summer shade.

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Meat locker called Monday to confirm out meat cut order, and yesterday to confirm when we will pick it up, this Saturday. I STILL have to finish making space in the freezers!!!
I had a hiccup last week. DD helped me by changing my browser to CHROME, but CHROME didn't know my passwords.
I was checking the Village's President (mayor) gmail account, as we wait for our IL EPA Grant money to be approved and ready to transfer to our bank, and I couldn't get in!!!!!
It's one thing when it's Your money, and another when you are in charge of the money you need to satisfy the FED's April 15th deadline requirement for lead mapping. Our engineer, while writing our submission for the grant in October, also creating a game plan to accomplish this. Our Water Supervisor says it will take one day, but I wonder how many other small towns are waiting until the last minute, and availability of the specific personnel to accomplish it.
FORTUNATELY, I have been in contact with the (1/3 for the whole state) reps with one of my personal email accounts.
I kept trying the wrong passwords, and it went to phone 2nd account verification. Ours is a landline. how you get a verification code That way, but our treasurer, who is runs a computer business, tells me that it is possible, just by answering a landline associated, would get me in.
NOW, I am logged in. I chose another Village gmail account as a secondary verification email, so, in the future, the next mayor WILL be able to log in to THIS account. This had not been done.
I intend to get ALL trustees to log in to this account asap. The correct password looks like a gmail suggested password, since it is full of unrelated numbers and characters.
I was IN, but couldn't figure out how Open the mail.
I had to be at DD's for appliance delivery yesterday, so I left my laptop so that eldest DD could get me in.
She reads instructions, and is technically methodical and had me back in the mail in about 5 minutes.
I HAD to create my own gmail account some 15 years ago, job related. I really don't use My gmail account.
I hang out at my Yahoo account. They ARE organized differently.
So...reasons for this happening?
I think that God wanted me to realize that ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH CHRIST.
I had some wrong thinking, like God can cure cancer more easily that to get into a password protected email account.
POINT IS, this occupied too much time that I should have spent cleaning out the big freezer!
A couple of blessings--I was hoping to find some older and HD milk crates to help with basement floor pantry storage. This week I found 3 crates, today I found a 4th in the garage, the Carriage House and my home office.
AND I found a 40 pound package of Tidycats litter that I didn't know I had.
God is SO GOOD!!!

 

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Picking up kitten tomorrow night! DD's are So excited! The owners' family has been handling all of the kittens, SO important bc I have seen kitten go totally feral for lack of this. We will have pictures this weekend.
It will be interesting to see how Troll Bridge reacts. He has been very lonely.

 

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I signed up for/watched a webinar on seed starting yesterday.
A:LL webinars, imho, are worth watching. I took lots of notes, although it seemed like the information in the webinar is readily available on the INet.
I guess the only only thoughts that stick out for me are:
1) planting depth
2) ideal temperatures
3) 50-75% water mix in soilless starter
4) cold stratification for some seeds
5) better to not start seeds too early
Otherwise, it was disappointing that the comments from most other participants during the webinar were like groupies.
I thought that most of us here know most of the stuff that was covered.
I left when he started hawking his master gardener stuff, at $250
Nope
I guess that I am fortunate that our local land grant university has a weekly program with learned experts who talk about their experiences...kinda like Here.

Master Seed Starting

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Seed Basics & Beyond 2024 - Webinar Replay Expired - joe gardener® | Organic Gardening Like a Pro

Learning the important aspects of seeds will help you excel with all your seed-starting adventures.

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Here is DD's new furrworm!!!
He goes to his home tomorrow! I understand that he is already a lap cat.

 

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He will be named tomorrow, too.
I DOUBT that he will tell us his super secret kitten name.
ONLY Lynx ever did That!

 

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Lynx is pretending that she didn't hear that. NOTE the Lynx typical black foot and black on the tip of her tail.

 

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...Lynx is dreaming of catching mice...kinda Hard when you are primarily an inside cat allergic to the wilds, who hardly EVER goes outside.