Posted on 04/24/2015 1:22:35 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thank you for your detailed advice. You certainly are a gardening wonder!
I may try this, more for trying to perfect an experiment. I lost my small muscle control from a TBI, so anything I can do get those teeny tiny seeds in the soil, will be a plus.
Besides I do a lot of this w/ my GD, so if she can learn something new....I’m all for it.
I’ll let you know what happens. We’re having a cold snap here, and instead of being outside, this may make a good indoor activity this weekend.
My only thought is, if the seeds are too *wet* they’ll propagate.
/johnny
I assumed you meant power. I curious as to a few details about your back up power. LOL
I'll even include pictures. I'm good at that.
/johnny
Gardening wonder? LOL More like trivial pursuit for gardens. LOL Hope your GD enjoys the activity. Mine is preteen and way to Kewl to do anything with Granny that doesn’t involve electronics.
6” or 6 ft?
Thanks!
I’d pay your geek to build a solar-powered, timed drip irrigation system.
I wonder if anyone else is seeing more and more “pelletized” garden seed. Saw a whole rack of it at one of the stores today.
Ordered some sugar beets a while back. They were supposed to be good clean heirloom seeds. But when we got them they were pelletized. I was surprised.
My ‘mountain’ grandmother would make “creasy greens”, also considered by the family to be fine eating. By the time I came along, she was too old to go out looking for them, but I’ve heard stories from my dad about those creasy greens his mom used to make. Since it was one of the earliest greens, after a winter of eating canned food, creasy greens were a very welcome addition to their diet.
From the link http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/2352/
“So, what ARE creasy greens, really? The botanical name is Barbaraea verna; they are a mustard in the Brassicaceae family. Creasy greens are a small leafy green often known as upland cress, winter cress, and early yellow rocket. They are similar to watercress in taste but do not grow in bogs the way watercress does.”
/johnny
I'll build a serious backup system.
I'm cheating right now and using an external charger since commercial power is back on. Before I go to bed, I'll have a full charge on there and NOT do any experimenting.
/johnny
Looking forward to it. Computer back up is still one my list. When I had a home office, I had a leased computer that had an automatic battery back up under the desk top CPU. We were only allowed to use the company computers if we were working from home, so that’s why I leased it.
I do have a lap top that I keep charged and can use that for some of my records and spread sheets. Bills, budgeting, medical info etc. and the all important play a DVD Movie. LOL
When the battery gets low, I have to quit till the electricity goes back on - then we have to talk, play cards or build a fire and toast marshmallows.
I think that it might be unaffordable. He hasn’t built one for his own use, so until that happens I’d be out of luck.
What we do have is the 4000 gallon swimming pool, with guttering dumping into it. He had to rig it, because he forgot to tell the guy installing the gutter to put a diverter in and an extender. DUH
Anyway, he put a spigot on the side near the base, and has several hoses that are long enough to reach all his gardens(almost all of our stuff is downhill).
One of those extenders also has a side hook up in just the right place to hook up a hose that I can use to water half of my beds. I’m thinking that I need to place a rain barrel with a spigot right at the end of that, and fill it as needed. Attach another hose to the rain barrel and let it roll.
Then eventually put in a drip irrigation system to eliminate hand watering, and that I might be able to get him to do.
I have not, but my shopping has been very limited this year. No budget, and I know better than to go to the store and “window” shop. Got to control the expenses when hubby can’t work.
If it’s gardening, I wind up buying the window. LOL
Just bought my heirloom seeds from Baker’s Creek and picked up some humus/manure bags from Wally World without going into Wally Central and looking around.
So now, I need to get ready for bed. What timing. NOT.
/johnny
I did once plant a couple of “mustard spinach” seeds but not there and they didn't come up. Making me wonder.
Also have something similar to dandelion, but has white flowers - clusters of tiny beads. Didn't plant anything like it either.
Waaahhh. Tell me it ain’t so. The big Texas trees are 6 inches??????????
We had trees that more than three feet wide ripped up and dumped on cars parked in drive ways. Course we don’t have any that big left on our property, but they are at least twice as big as 6 inches. Most of our largest trees were sacrificed for a space to build the house, split and burned during our first winters here.
one = on
Not that big, except it is from straight line winds. 6 inches in diameter is large enough.
I don't want that much wind in my yard.
/johnny
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