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Sue Feely
True Blue Farmgirl
1044 Posts
Sue
Buffalo
New York
USA
1044 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 03 2012 : 09:00:07 AM
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| I just had to share this, looks so exciting to me! I live in Buffalo, New York, zone 5B. I came across this article on facebook from Upstate Gardners Journal called seed sowing in the snow/garden design! It uses plastic milk jugs to start sowing your seeds now, I'm going to give it a try! (drink more milk=more milk jugs!) |
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jessabelluh
True Blue Farmgirl
349 Posts
Jessica
South Dakota
USA
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laurentany
True Blue Farmgirl
3259 Posts
Laurie
Patchogue
NY
USA
3259 Posts |
Posted - Jan 03 2012 : 5:55:32 PM
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I just saw a very similar article in one of my magazines-
It was in the February 2012 issue of Garden Gate magazine and it showed how you can start various perennials now in milk jugs so they are ready in the spring.
Very interesting concept indeed- and I am sure that it would most likely be a success in most cases.
Seems like it is a very inexpensive alternative to a greenhouse. Think I may have to give it a try with some lettuce!
Thanks for sharing,
~Laurie
"Little Hen House on the Island"
Farmgirl Sister#1403
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.. |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2012 : 5:56:46 PM
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| Wow. I'm def. going to try this ASAP. Thanks, Sue (and Jessica, for the instructive link). |
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Sue Feely
True Blue Farmgirl
1044 Posts
Sue
Buffalo
New York
USA
1044 Posts |
Posted - Jan 03 2012 : 6:48:25 PM
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| Jessica - thanks for adding that link to make things easier for others to look up~I didn't know how to do that! |
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2012 : 9:24:42 PM
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Thank you ladies!! I have been dreamin and plannin over seed catalogues and my packets for weeks now. I'm gettin so antsy to plant that I have filled the greenhouse trays and have the labels all wrote out and ready. I can't start it till March. I'm gonna pull out the milk jugs I've been savin to use as drip waterers and use some of them to start plantin some to try!
I love all the happy inablers out there who get it!!
Happy gardenin to all the other green thumb addicts out there!!!
Farmgirl Sister #1438
God - Gardening - Family - Is anything else important? |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jan 04 2012 : 4:42:04 PM
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| I got started earlier this evening -- modestly, with just two jugs -- for "Bright Lights" Swiss Chard and "Detroit Dark Red" Beets. Fascinating project! Can't wait to see if it works for me. |
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jessabelluh
True Blue Farmgirl
349 Posts
Jessica
South Dakota
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - Jan 04 2012 : 5:12:26 PM
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Please keep us posted!
I'd love to hear how this works for people!
~jess |
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star-schipp
True Blue Farmgirl
942 Posts
Starletta
Middletown
Indiana
USA
942 Posts |
Posted - Jan 05 2012 : 10:57:13 AM
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Have a look at
http://wintersown.org/
I got some awesome plants this past season from this process. Love it!
If you can't feed one hundred people, then just feed one. -Mother Teresa
Star - farmgirl sister #1927
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jessabelluh
True Blue Farmgirl
349 Posts
Jessica
South Dakota
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - Jan 05 2012 : 1:56:11 PM
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Thanks for sharing, Star!
~jess |
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ruthie218
True Blue Farmgirl
1425 Posts
Ruthie Ann
Indiana
USA
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Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 7:57:19 PM
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Really want to try this.
Ruthie Ann
simpleindianagirl.blogspot.com |
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artfulsister
True Blue Farmgirl
155 Posts
Terri
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
155 Posts |
Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 8:12:26 PM
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Oh this is so cool! And we can recycle our milk containers...Yay! Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Every day is a new opportunity for joy! |
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Alanna Neupert
True Blue Farmgirl
66 Posts
Alanna
cabot
PA
USA
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Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 09:08:07 AM
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| Hi Ladies- I've done wintersowing for the last couple of years,it's so much fun . You can use the containers from Sam's Club that have a lid,for example from grapes. Poke holes at the bottom and top for drainage holes. Make sure you mark them with magic marker. Water them good and throw them outside on your porch. When it's time for them to come up they will. alot of times I'll mark on a plastic fork with seeds I planted. I sew pretty heavy my seeds and I'll just separate it when it's time to put in the ground. On the Garden Forum, Winter Sowing, there is alist of plants that do good when you winter sow them. |
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artfulsister
True Blue Farmgirl
155 Posts
Terri
Raleigh
North Carolina
USA
155 Posts |
Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 3:48:34 PM
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Thanks so much Alanna, for sharing your experience.
hugs,
Terri
artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com
Every day is a new opportunity for joy! |
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
427 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
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Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 5:15:06 PM
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I can't wait to get started. I am not sure I want to build a green house yet so this would be a great start for me. Of course with two kids we have crazy amounts of milk jugs to use too.
Emily
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