Spring Planting
All kinds of planting going on around here. A couple weeks ago the farmer who plants the corn in the field right next to our house was out planting until around midnight. It drove the Donovan Dog absolutely insane, which drove me batty as well.
We've planted tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers, both at the Equuschicks's house, where she has a large sunny garden bed, and in buckets at our house where we have mostly shade, but can put buckets up on the deck for more sun.
And I've planted flowers, flowers, and more flowers. l especially like hanging baskets, but I don't like their price. So I look for them at the thrift shop when I go- last month I got six for just six dollars. They were a little rusty, but I like the rust.
What I didn't have is any coco-mats for lining the baskets and keeping the compost inside. So I looked around for what I had in my hand. Naturally.=)
I had some old straw placemats that had been spoiled for indoor use (or any food associated use) by mice. My husband put a slit in each one from the center to the outside edge so they could be fit into the baskets better. We filled them up with compost- which is also built up from what I have in my hand and put flowers in them. I am afraid I wimped out on the 'what's in my hand' aspect here and bought ready grown flowers to plant. I like the instant color, and I always forget about seedlings and they don't do well, if I even remember to start them in time. But a really valiant frugalist would have grown the flowers from seed in home-made pots made of cut up toilet paper tube rolls, filled with dirt, wrapped in newspaper tokeep the soil in and nurtured in a green-house cobbled together of old sandwich bags and toothpicks.
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3 Responses to “Spring Planting”
June 12th, 2009 at 8:26 am
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June 13th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Greaat use of the old straw placemats! that’s one I will have to keep in mind!
June 15th, 2009 at 5:43 am
I will have to remember this! Placemats would never have occurred to me.
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