Garden Whipping! - Updated: pg21

[Catalina]

Update: I loaded and unloaded a trailer full of wood chips for my garden. Yay! They were free!

Also, drained my pond. How do you clean the scum off of a pond liner?
It stunk sooooo bad. Like a dairy farm.

 

[Catalina]

Unloaded a trailer load of dirt. Yay it was free AND I didn't have to load it myself, a nice man with a bobcat did!

Moved a bunch of stuff and replanted it all in a new bed.

I'm working on a big surprise! :watering I'll post pics when it's totally done. :tools

 

[karanleaf]

Yeah Catalina

I know what ya mean about great deals
We get our wood chip mulch free from the city organic dump site
And I made a super big score Wendsday, Tuesday I picked Noah, our grandson up after 4:30 from their muscial play practus (sp?) (tired)
When I did I saw this huge pile of new lumbered palets and Big ones to boot So I called the school and asked what was going to happen to them, and if I could have them? They called me back and said they were mine for the taking. So Dh Went right away and picked all 7 of them up. So today (Thursday) we buildt an instant fence and have used the rest for display racks for the plants for sale That just made my day
There is no better Price than FREE ISN'T GREAT

I will take some photos and post them.

And DH & I have been working hard trying to get ready for our Greenhouse opening day Saturday

Well all I need to get some sleep have a very heavy work days ahead for the next few

 

[Purple Strawberry]

Yeah Catalina

I know what ya mean about great deals
We get our wood chip mulch free from the city organic dump site
And I made a super big score Wendsday, Tuesday I picked Noah, our grandson up after 4:30 from their muscial play practus (sp?) (tired)
When I did I saw this huge pile of new lumbered palets and Big ones to boot So I called the school and asked what was going to happen to them, and if I could have them? They called me back and said they were mine for the taking. So Dh Went right away and picked all 7 of them up. So today (Thursday) we buildt an instant fence and have used the rest for display racks for the plants for sale That just made my day
There is no better Price than FREE ISN'T GREAT

I will take some photos and post them.

And DH & I have been working hard trying to get ready for our Greenhouse opening day Saturday

Well all I need to get some sleep have a very heavy work days ahead for the next few [url]http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/4104/nightsmiliety3.gif[/url]

I have never thought of a pallet fence. Could you post some pictures?

 

[vfem]

Come on Tease!!! I wanna see what you are up to now?!

 

[karanleaf]

Oh I am Not a tease

Sorry gang I have been trying my best to load up a few photos but I keep getting told I am over my upload limit and I have deleted and deleted till I had deleted almost a whole page, and it still tells me I am at 113% and over my limit.
So I don't know how I can show you tonight. Sorry I have been trying

I will try again torrow night and maybe have some shots of people here buying Unless we get the wind , they are talking 27 to 30 mph winds so that will be keeping the plants inside. keeping them under protection of the greenhouse.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Mothers Day :rose row

:happy_flower Karan

 

[Hattie the Hen]

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KARANLEAF, :happy_flower LOTS OF GOOD LUCK FOR TOMORROW & THE BEGINNING OF YOUR NEW LIFE ---We are all rooting for you & DH.

I hope the wind holds off, and you get large numbers of customers. Fingers AND TOES crossed for you. Wish I could be there to help! :happy_flower Get a good nights sleep :bouquet

EVERYONE -- Have a great mother's day :bouquet :bouquet :bouquet


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[karanleaf]

Ok Gang Here I was finally able to upload my photos this time.
Well with only 1 ad in the local free shopper paper Wind was bad enough we didn't set out plants or our road side signs. Even with that, We still had a $200.00 day That is after costs For this small rural area I feel that was pretty good. Everyone commented on how healthy and big our tomato and cold weather plants looked So many were impressed with DH's Greenhouse and marveled at the fence garden. DH calls it the horazontal (sp?) garden I believe we will busy tomorrow also We both have really are LOVING THIS

Oh, here are the photos .....
This one is how we used the other 5 pallets, imanage these covered with plants. Oh and the trailer has cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprout, and kollirobi plants on it.

Here is our instant fence. This is just 2 of the pallets, they are 10 feet long. We left a 2 foot space between the 2 sections and they over lap. That way we still have a passage through with out building a gate.

Well I must go out and pot up a few more boots. DH was surprized that I had sold 1 of my old worn out boots with impatient and ivy potted in it

:happy_flower Karan :coolsun :rainbow-sun :watering

 

[Hattie the Hen]

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Hi karanleaf!

So glad it went so well -- the two of you must have been SO PROUD

The photos are great, the greenhouse is stunning & all the staging for the plants looks very professional & very attractive. :bouquet :bouquet :bouquet It is so important how you present yourself when you are starting out in a new business you have made a wonderful look, a frame for your lovely healthy plants. Have you ever read the books of the British gardener Beth Chatto, on how she set up her nursery. They are wonderful -- she specialised in plants for difficult conditions; very wet & very dry principally. You must try to get hold of them as I'm sure you would love her attitude. I used to get plants from her often because the quality was so much better than from anywhere else. I also have a wonderful book of the letters between her & Christopher Lloyd, another of my gardening heroes, who sadly died a cople of years ago.

GOOD LUCK for today too. :coolsun :coolsun :coolsun

:rose Hattie :rose
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[karanleaf]

Thanks You so much Hattie. That means alot

And I will look the book up sounds like it should be a wealth of information. I am always open for sources of learning. and some of the older ways just can't be improve on.

Thanks again so much, I will try to take a photo of the plants filling the display .

Off to bed for me more of it in the morning

:happy_flower :happy_flower Karan :happy_flower :happy_flower