Ducks4you for 2022

[ducks4you]

Champaign/Urbana/Savoy are the triple cities NNW of me, but they are in zone 5b. We are borderline 5b/6a.

 

[AMKuska]

STILL haven't started seeds. Today WILL be the day! I can at Least start some sugar snap peas. The chive seeds were old and didn't sprout. I may still take ALL of my old chive seeds and put them in a container and on the porch, 'cause you Never KNOW!!
Just bought 1,000 chive seeds from Seeds 'N Such bc they sent me an email about last chance for 2 extra seed packages. Today, I Promise to take a picture of the 15 (I need to count, again) sweet bell peppers that I started last June. They are really aciting like bonsai's. I keep pinching off their flowers.
The extra chives will go to DD's back yard, where I am filling in a weedy area with preferred invasives. For those you don't know, their 1920's back yard has cement sidewalk subdivisions, so they shouldn't spread beyond.
Interesting, my first order from Seeds 'N Such is Finally out for delivery.

Wait...how did you get to page 12 without actually starting the growing part?

 

[digitS']

@AMKuska , this relates somewhat with gardeners in February in some zones of the world.

I woke up this morning from a dream where I am showing this lady my flower garden but it isn't a garden, at all.

It's a parking garage -- a low roof above, concrete gray, cold, dreary. There aren't even cars where my garden is supposed to be! Just chunks of scrap metal ...

Steve

 

[AMKuska]

@AMKuska , this relates somewhat with gardeners in February in some zones of the world.

I woke up this morning from a dream where I am showing this lady my flower garden but it isn't a garden, at all.

It's a parking garage -- a low roof above, concrete gray, cold, dreary. There aren't even cars where my garden is supposed to be! Just chunks of scrap metal ...

Steve

That's actually super sad, and yet entirely possible. Most people are keen on concrete rather than greenery these days.

 

[ducks4you]

Must have been dreaming about the poor souls in Ukraine!
Please pray for them!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I've been following closely via Twitter and Reddit. DD has several team mates over there.

I've donated to World Central Kitchen. Its a 100% approved Charity as ranked by Charity Navigator. This group is in Poland and another country now to help feed the 500K refugees so far that have escaped.

 

[Marie2020]

Must have been dreaming about the poor souls in Ukraine!
Please pray for them!

For the innocent souls everywhere

 

[AMKuska]

I've been following closely via Twitter and Reddit. DD has several team mates over there.

I've donated to World Central Kitchen. Its a 100% approved Charity as ranked by Charity Navigator. This group is in Poland and another country now to help feed the 500K refugees so far that have escaped.

I will look this up and make a donation. I would dearly love to help these poor people.

 

[ducks4you]

Good news. I have three T5 gro light bulbs that are still good!!
SILLY ME--I tested two of them and thought they were goners, took this picture with me on my phone to shop for more, where I had found them before, Menard's. They didn't have any, so...
I got sold on a discontinued item, but I'm gonna keep it bc I am thinking about Next winter's indoor gardening. It resembles a torch lamp with 4 gro lights sticking out of it. (photo Later)
ANYWAY, I tested ALL of the T5 bulbs and realized that I hadn't connected them correctly to the circuit. ALL of them are still good!
Here is what they look like, 1/2 inch in diameter, about 18 inches long:

 

[ducks4you]

This is the gadget that you can use these bulbs in: