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some of the 4" pots

The coldframe they will go in... DH made it for me and he and my 8 year old grandaughter painted it

yardqueen1948 this is a big WOW!!!!!!!! nice looking cold frame and all those WS containers, really a good job. How many plants will your coldframe hold?

The 120 4" pots will fit in there according to DH's calculations. It is 3' x 6'... If more will fit, I have penty more see and a lot more of the 4" pots. DSIL got a BIG box of them for me for free... They have never been used so I plan to used them for my indoor sowing as well. LOL... Yes I plan to do more inside in the greenhouse. Seeds I will germiate with the coffee filter method and some that I have to chip and soak... I am a little worried about my sanity at this point. After we did 100 more tonight to make the over 500 count, I did ask DH (he helps me with all of this) if he thought we were crazy doing this many and he said he wasn't, but he wasn't so sure about me... Then he added that he must be also cause he was letting me hook him into this also. He is retired as of Oct 1, and so one of the things he has been doing during the day is preparing the containers for me to plant in. He makes the drainage holes, puts the potting soil in the containers, and stacks them on a table where I have a chair and my seeds. He helps make the lables and put lids on and takes them out in the wheelbarrow to where they need to go.

Give your DH a big ole "Good Job!!" He sounds like one in a million!!!

He is! He's a keeper. we've been married 40 years now... We have all the kinks worked out by now...LOL

I agree with LorraineR, you got yourself a keeper. Isn't it great when you get others on board with ya. It turns a lot of fun work into well, fun work , lol .


No its not crazy, not one bit. Why would plants have so many seeds and why would Starbucks have extra cups to sell. Free big boxes, and granddaughter to help paint coldframes for grandma.,not to mention the invention of wheelbarrows. Its a meant to be thing , not crazy at all.

Ahhh I just planted 200 tomato seeds today and many more yet to arrive in the mail :/ , who said crazy!!!!!!!!!

That is wonderful yardqueen1948, 40 years!!!!!! My dh and I have been married 28 years , were still workin on kinks ,lol. But hes a keeper to : )

It takes a while to get the kinks out. I told DH we were like the Israelites in the old testament, where God had them wander in the wilderness for 40 years before they could go into the Promised Land! LOL

We finally made it though... I think rertirement is the Promised Land!

NEXT YEAR, mine are all going to be nice and organized. You should see them now, every kind of container from milk jug and plastic ice cream holders to strofoam. Not even with the same kind of container together. You've made me want to go straighten them all up, but , alas, I'd just mess it up more.

I like that Promise Land ,yardqueen1948 thats a good way of looking at it. Rough journey sometimes, mountains highs and valley lows , but being together is what really matters.


Thats what I wanted to do with my jugs LorraineR, after seeing yardqueen how neat her WS was, well I to want to go straighten my milk jugs up,lol. i didn't do a neat job on the taping either : (

Yardqueen: Did that dear DH write your name in the concrete where you are WSing? That is so sweet!

Yes he did! That is the foundation of my first greenhouse from lsat year. He tore it down and made a new one this year because the sun deteriorated the plastic sheeting. He is going to make a potting shed one that old foundation. Here is my new one... He put my "name" on it too! LOL

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Well, goodness! I've edited that post twice and I still have typos on it. I think I did too many pots tonight...

Ok, that's enough of the perfect husband. I'm really getting jealous. Please tell us some kind of fault please! LOL Just a joke, you're a lucky lady and I hope ya'll stay busy during your retirement. Usually wives make husbands go back to work or get a hobby when they start straightening the silverware drawers!!!

I am really envious!

Ok, let's stop it. ha ha. His heads probably as big as a 5 gallon bucket now!!! Don't want him to get anymore proud of himself. lol

He does have some faults of course! But all in all he is great!!! We will see when I retire July 1st! We may be on divorce court by August 1st after being together ALL DAY... EVERY DAY! I hope we can stand it!!! We will stay busy I am sure. DH can't stand to sit around. And he loves to make things. He just finished making frames to hang a swing from for our 2 and 5 year old grandchildren. He really made them nice and sturdy and then stained the wood. They are made of cedar.

ooops I crossposted

Grandkids will keep them busy. Funny how grandkids get the good stuff, your kids themselves had to put up with you when you were working and busy all time.
Oh well, grandkids like you better anyway. lol
You can spend an hour or so everyday thinking of stuff to keep him busy. Sounds like you have a lot he can do. Don't let him rest, then he'll think he really is retired and try to do that a lot










Grandk

Yep! This is the sign one of them got him for Christmas

I don't know what happened to that post, sorry. One of my kittens thinks he's supposed to lay on my mouse pad when I'm on computer, so he probably hit the space bar.

LOL I wondered...

Oh, hey, yardqueen, he's cute, too (hee, hee). Don't worry about me, though. I've been married to another one of the good ones, 40 years come September.

grampapa,

It is amazing isn't it! Where did all that time go??? And congrats on that too!

and the same to both of you. Don't you both still feel like kids? I think it quite an accomplishment in this day of multiple instant divorce.

seeds in containers (just wanted to stay on topic LOL)

Lost my husband, so have no recent stories, but he would help me with stuff too. Poor man, would come home tired, he was a builder, and I'd have all this stuff in his shop for him to do. Sometimes he would tell me he was just too tired, but usually he'd trudge out and do it.
Guess we mostly complain about husbands, but it's nice to give them a little credit, not much now, don't want them getting cocky!!

Last year I made lots and LOTS of paper pots . . . today I simply stapled a used plastic bag as the lining for a 4 " cardboard box lid. (Lid is from a box of photocopy paper). I used the end of a pair of large sissors to punch holes in the bottom, through the thin plastic bag and the cardboard. I then filled it with 4 inches of potting soil. I have EIGHT different hardy hibiscus seeds - so I planted eight rows of six seeds each. (total 48). I figure I only want probably 2-3 of any one kind, so I am only counting on 50 percent or less germination. I also saved the remaining seeds to start in the summer if nothing germinates :-)

Once that was done, I covered the lid with a sheet of thin plastic. I placed this on my front veranda. The box lid will get morning sun, afternoon shade, and once it warms a bit, I will have to water, but that is not a big concern for me.

Anyway, I will let you know how I fare.

Michaela,

NO paper pots this year? Does David not read to you this year? And the sun will be setting in the East, I take it. . .

I am simply stopped dead in my tracks at yardqueen's industry and tidiness! Very impressive. (If I were to be married 40 years I would have had to have gotten married when I was 6.) DH and i have only been married 7 years - we had to have at least one train wreck each first. Now he helps with winter sowing, of course, don't all husbands?

xx, Carrie

Sureeeeee they do. lol

I will have to give craedit for the neaatness to DH also! I am not neat! He is a neat freak... He put them all in place, not I. And I couldn't have done near rhat many if it weren't for his help.

here i go with the typos again. I am not going to edit, as I will make more anyway. I seem to have a problem with my left pinky throwing in extra a's when I am tired. I guess it lays too hard on the keyboard.

Michaela, that will probably work just fine. you seem to have very good luck with your winter sowing, so you must be doing everything right :0)

dat sure is alot of 'em WS pots Yard Queen. Wow. Thanks for sharing the pics..


rebecca30

Carrie, I do make some paper pots - but these will be reserved for plants that don't tranfer well.
Other plants will just be sown in flats. :-)

edited to add: My Dave is currently reading the complete Sharpe series to me. :-)

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I think I will do some paper pots for my poppies...

Who says you can't use everything!!! I knew saving those little pudding cups was a good idea. See, as much soil as in those little peat things, it's very own dome and of course the all famous duct tape. Yes, hole in bottom and top!!!
Can't take credit for this most awsome idea tho. I can remember the member's name but we were chatting back and forth about not throwing things away. I said I was going to throw away the drawer full of pudding cups, she stopped me and said "But, wait, you might could use them for little greenhouses. lol
So here it is