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The planting of seeds has officially begun! 🥳 Bell peppers are all in, and about 1/3 have sprouted. Got all my new onion seeds in the ground, and the wee onion/leek bulbs. Planted 9 cotton plants tonight, and did the first round of tomato seeds. Mostly cherry tomatoes and dwarf types so far...

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Horsetail used to be the absolute bane of my garden. Bush dirt trucked those in, and they grew like grass. It took some years, but I've finally banished them nearly entirely with a Dutch hoe.

The grease pencil is probably a good idea for being able to remove when needed. It's the smaller type tags that I'm trying to avoid at this point. They work great in the beginning of the season, when plants are small, and then they disappear under foliage. With all the different types of tags...

An Alaskan Cruise, now that sounds like some fun! I remember the first time I watched the documentary 'Tornado Alley'. It was shocking to me, because being a close neighbour, I assumed I would have known about such a thing. It was in an interview with Thomas Sowell, where he was talking...

It also works as an effective torture treatment on children with colds. My mother was a huge fan of that stuff. :lol:

Tornado warning! 🫨 That is some crazy weather system you get over there!

Post #9, 760 for today. I got the Brother label machine ordered and 40 metres of ribbon! :celebrate

Here's my pepper plants that spent this winter inside. I'm very careful with the water, they don't need a lot.

Where did they spend the winter? I've overwintered pepper plants the last 2 years, but I didn't really cut them back, I put them under lights and gave them water every week or so. I don't think it's likely that you can overwinter a bell pepper type plant because they have been so bred away...

Coffee grounds, being acidic, are also probably a good top dressing for acidic loving vegetables. I have added fresh coffee to my carrot rows several times, and even the bean transplants. Bugs loathe the smell and steer clear of plants surrounded by the grounds. Great pest deterrent, though I...

If I take them out of the fridge now and put in a window I don't think they'll make it. These are very tiny tubers, they probably don't have much energy in them to keep producing greenery in a too small pot. Last year I started them in pots pretty early not knowing what else to do with them...

I have noticed that if I make a writing mistake on a tag even with a powerful marker, it will come off right away pretty easily. So I think your totally right that time has worked against me. That was my first thought when I realized how impervious these tags were to cleaning - oh no I waited...

Nope. I had bought a set of markers at Home Depot that were probably for marking lumber and other industrial uses so the chemical formula for removal that typically works, like acetone, are not working. This really is my fault as I wanted tags that would last. And now I'm in an episode of...

This is actually a really great idea for doing a lot of tags. After years of doing it the way I am, I feel like there must be a better way. I'm going to look into this on Amazon, thank you for the great idea! :hugs I'm caught in exactly the marker dilemma you mention, by mid summer I was...

I thought you might enjoy this @Marie2020. So cute. 🤗

I'm getting tags ready for the bean plants right now, which requires me to wash them, remove the writing from last season and dry with a cloth so I won't wreck the marker I'm using with drops of water. Clearly I made a dreadful mistake last year and used a too high quality indelible marker...

The most marvelous mail arrived today from the UK! It amazes me the generosity of seed savers worldwide 🤗. Did a wee trade - or so I thought - and today I found this in the mail! I would not have guessed they'd survive!! It has been quite a week of wonderful mail surprises!! Just 6 hours...

Looks good @hdan. 👍

From what I've researched there are two types, wild and cultivated. It is the wild ones that are toxic, I imagine the cultivated ones have been bred away from that trait, the way lupini beans have been bred away from bitterness. Sadly, I don't have plans to grow it, they'd never make it here...