It has begun!

Wow that is a great workbench/storage bench....really nice. I saw in one of my many organizational books...rofl....about putting stuff in storage containers, but you took a picture what was inside and printed it out and you could tape it to the outside so you always knew what was in it...course a good idea I have never done. I did on my million Christmas storage boxes put a label about what was in those tho.

I did get a couple more milk cartons from people at work gave them to me. So when I get iced and snowed in on Thursday I will get my winter sowing done. We will still have lots of cold times between now and spring. In fact Saturday they are showing single digits during the night.

Eeeek! You're going to get snowed/iced in on Thursday!? You STAY INSIDE, safe and warm, ok!? < =/

That's a pretty good idea about how to label the cabinets... but I think DH is a bit too anal to forget where he puts things, he is the most organized (pain in the butt) person I have ever known. < =D
I have done something similar with the contents of my wallet. I've got photo copies of all the contents stashed away, so if my wallet is ever stolen or lost, I have all the phone numbers etc handy to call and cancel and all that pesky stuff.

Great idea about the wallet!
Here is a fail proof way of making a garden tag, that will not break, will not fade, will not break the bank either.
Just look below this post.

I first did this using washers but the tags are much more reasonable.

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This link took me to a very long thread about Valentines...

Oh I thought it would take you to the post. Let me try again...sorry

Got the punch set at habor freight and the brass tags at grainger.com, or most anykind of tool place.

How to make plant tags using your brass tags and the punch set.

1. Place the tag on the surface flat.
Find the letter in your set that you want.
Make sure the letter is facing the correct direction and is face down on the brass tag….I have messed up some by not paying attention…rofl You don’t want a backwards C … LOL
2. At this point you will still be holding on to the letter, but I only had two hands, can’t hold the letter, hold the hammer, and hold the camera…all at the same time. So hold the letter from the punch set and hit the top of the punch set with the hammer. Really doesn’t take a lot of force to imprint the tag with the letter.
3. Once you have put in one letter, get the next letter and repeat. Some people draw a line on the tag so the names are straighter but I don’t bother with that.
It is easier than hammering in a nail I think.
I used clothes line wire for the plant tag I sent you, but if you have old wire clothes hangers they will work. I got wire at home depot, but you will need a pair of wire cutters, which are scissors on steroids…rofl.
The stamp set will last forever probably and the tags should also and the cost I think is really reasonable compared to most plant tags. I was making my own tags from aluminum and an engraver but this is MUCH easier and I was not a great engraver by hand so these are more readable.
Easy as 1, 2, 3

A question: What do you do if you've got something like Delphiniums? < =P Haahahahaa!! "I need bigger tags!!" LOL!

We sell something like those at work, only a little bit bigger I think... and I think there's some sort of pen that goes with it, but I don't remember. < =/

So funny about delphiniums...rofl. I haven't found any kind of inks or paint that lasts. I do have an engraving tool, but my engraving is not so good...rofl. I can read it but no one else...rofl. That is how I started out making tags was engraving them...with pieces of aluminum my DH had, but these tags are much easier...

Heeheeheee, I can see you there with your tags and punch set ... "D".... "E".... "L" .... "F"... DONE. < =D haahahahaaa!!!!

Rofl..I would not be able to spell it for sure...lol

I am SO excited to find this thread! I have jugs ready, but wasn't sure how to do it. Thank you! I know I will be busy this week & next getting my "winter Sow" SEEDS GOING!
Thank you again for all of the info!

Have fun with it! I can't wait to see what I end up with.

Hi, from northern Illinois. Is it too late to get started winter sowing? I sure hope not, because I just seeded 20 containers of cool weather veggies - lettuce, kale, radish, spinach, beets, etc.

I start April 1 and have great luck, especially cool weather veggies. They come much sooner than direct sowing, and don't get leggy and weak like starting indoors. Good luck!

Just now learning about winter sewing. Where have I been? Have delphenium and rubekia seeds. Also will they bloom this year if I can get them to come up?

They should...

Agree, they absolutely should. I have winter sown Rudbeckia (not Delphs) and they bloomed like crazy for me the first year.

Blue Mirror delphs bloom for me first year. I love them, no staking.