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[digitS']

carrots in a small space

Similar techniques: I didn't start the carrots in the hoop house using egg cartons. However, he prepares the bed for planting with a spading fork and rake. I do the same and was doing that in the distant garden when it was 30' by 200' and larger.

The shovel was never given up but the spading fork is preferred for loosening the soil. Often, I will use a 4-prong, long-handled cultivator to break up clods. Sometimes, that's enough for leveling a bed but usually the rake follows the cultivator. A rototiller has never been my best choice but I used it quite a lot during the last few years with that garden. The tractor guy was only an Autumn visitor.

I like the egg carton idea and it obviously works .

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

I finished the Valentine's Day package for middle DD and family. I bought a yard of red polka dot fabric, folded in, ironed down the edges, then hand stitched in the following items with black thread:
1) flannel shirt, "Sangria Fox" pattern for middle DD (GS is named "Fox")
2) Fox head knit hat for "Fox"
3) black ski gloves for SIL
4) emery board
5) rhinestone heart button with backing (you can buy these for garments, NOT permanently stitch to a garment and remove for washing)
In this case, the button is also a gift.
Here is the sentiment, which I couldn't figure out how to rhyme.
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Let it not be said that Duckums does not take care of her eggchicks!!!

Happy Valentines’s Day!!!

This is NOT a pillow.​

There are 5 items in front of you. Your mission is to find them all. They are:
Rhinestone heart button
Plastic button clasp
Something to make things smooth
Something to cover your digits
Something to cover your head
Something warm and “winey”

None are breakable. You need a tool to open this package, a seam ripper. Everything is handsewn in black thread, so that you can find the thread. The fabric is one full yard.

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It took 2 1/2 hrs to assemble and I am mailing it tomorrow, February 6th. I am pretty sure it will get there in time. I found the 1 yard 100% cotton fabric at WalMart, of all places. I think it was packaged for quilting.
Note the paper towel that Eva had grabbed on the floor. She also sends her love.

 

[ducks4you]

I am happy to report that 6 of the porcelain garlic are up!
3 of the "nothing can kill it" garlic from @flowerbug are also up.
Seems kinda early, but how can I Not be happy!

 

[ducks4you]

I looked through my seed cabinet drawers bc I want to catalog what I have for a better idea of when to start what.
Good grief!! I got so Little gardening done in the last 2 years, but I just kept Buying seeds!!!
Not a Real problem.
I had a large clean pickle jar available, so I repackaged seeds to go into my wildflower garden strip...and some other places, Too.
Several packages specifically are a wildflower mix, one package is labelled "Blooming Prairie Resiliant Seeds."
It is labeled for 2022, so I will have to report back, but I definitely want to start Those this Spring.

 

[heirloomgal]

I looked through my seed cabinet drawers bc I want to catalog what I have for a better idea of when to start what.
Good grief!! I got so Little gardening done in the last 2 years, but I just kept Buying seeds!!!
Not a Real problem.
I had a large clean pickle jar available, so I repackaged seeds to go into my wildflower garden strip...and some other places, Too.
Several packages specifically are a wildflower mix, one package is labelled "Blooming Prairie Resiliant Seeds."
It is labeled for 2022, so I will have to report back, but I definitely want to start Those this Spring.

Buying more & more seeds, how can you not do it? It's the essential first step of the new gardening year!

 

[ducks4you]

Youngest DD cleaned stalls for me. Ponies behaved pretty well when being turned out. I am not at all afraid of my boys, but I don't want to mess up my surgery by even stepping wrong, so I have asked for this help.
It really helps that we are using a training halter and lead on Buster Brown. He feels the knots on his nose when you pull. She refused to take him out of his stall until he put his head over the 5 ft stall panel and waited to be haltered. Much squeeling and stamping of hooves before this happened today, but he lead out quietly. She immediately asked him to back up then forward, and then turned him out, making him walk around the gate and put his head over the gate and wait to be unhaltered.
If you teach your horse ANYTHING at all, THIS is the most important lesson, and they get better the more you do it.
A horse Must face you when you take the halter off. They have to turn and plant their feet to take off running and you will never get kicked this way, plus the gate sits in between you and your horse as a buffer.
UNfortunately, I had to buy another 30 gallon small water tank. The other one was too small, the 100 gallon Rubbermaid had a visible leak and crack at the bottom, the Other 100 gallon Rubbermaid had a problem with the screw in plug and was leaking there.
They are now outside with a full small tank of water. This size is manageable and I can get the ice out easily.
Stalls are now ready in the case that I have to put them back inside for weather reasons. I also dug out some stubborn weeds and DD piled them up for me to burn.
It almost feels like I should be planting peas bc my spade went full depth today, but I know we are having some colder weather soon. I am Sure that the soil isn't warm enough.
Still, the birds have started to sing in the morning...

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

good to get out and feel like something within your healing journey is accomplished. sending harden fairies to watch over you.

 

[Marie2020]

Eva is on another medication. I ran out of the cheapo cheese, so I tried thinly sliced ham, and that worked to get pills into her.
I went to see a different Vet bc she has had bad nasal discharge for several months now, my Vet had her on 2 weeks of antibiotics. New Vet has her on 2 medications, for one month, then a checkup appt in February. I am giving her pills that taste bad 2x/day, and I am on strict 7AM and 7PM schedule.
No bad physical reactions. So Far, the discharge has slowed down.
Please pray.

I hope Eva beats this.

 

[Marie2020]

One of my dogs also has bad allergies. We make all their dog food now and it has genuinely seemed to help with one of the dog's health problems. Another is on an anti-cancer supplement for life after having a bout with it, so I just add it in while cooking to make sure I never forget it.

My dog only has a very small portion of dog food. It's mainly chicken turkey, turkey mince with vegetables. She loves sweet potatoes.
This morning it was a rush so she had a little dog food with celery and sweet potatoes.
It'll be chicken and veg tonight.

 

[Marie2020]

So...do I have enough seeds yet?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
DH said "I want to start the tobacco seeds."
I don't have any...
so...
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Items in this shipment​

Pennsylvania Broadleaf Tobacco × 1 TN90 Burley Tobacco × 1 Packet

My order was a little less than $11.00
Victory Seeds carries over 30 types of heirloom tobacco seeds for sale and they are organic seeds.
My choices were:
1) I Don't need a ton of these seeds, each packet holds approx. 100 seeds.
They are Tiny, to you don't sneeze when planting them.

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I've kept this information . Wow. What an amazing plant.
I hope it will keep the slugs off my plants this year.