cowsRmeat said:

Probably not new to most of you, but I recently also started re-purposing old sour cream plastic containers. I take the container and cut it's sides into vertical strips 1/2 to 3/4in wide and use them as labels for my plants.

I learned the hard way not to have labelled pots.... It is nearly impossible to remember what is planted where and when it was sowed, etc.

---

ferrel_human said:

cowsRmeat said:

Probably not new to most of you, but I recently also started re-purposing old sour cream plastic containers. I take the container and cut it's sides into vertical strips 1/2 to 3/4in wide and use them as labels for my plants.

I learned the hard way not to have labelled pots.... It is nearly impossible to remember what is planted where and when it was sowed, etc.

---

Yes. Yes. And yes. Good to know because nurseries around here don't carry them.

---

BigHeart said:

ferrel_human said:

cowsRmeat said:

Probably not new to most of you, but I recently also started re-purposing old sour cream plastic containers. I take the container and cut it's sides into vertical strips 1/2 to 3/4in wide and use them as labels for my plants.

I learned the hard way not to have labelled pots.... It is nearly impossible to remember what is planted where and when it was sowed, etc.

---

Yes. Yes. And yes. Good to know because nurseries around here don't carry them.

---

I just bought a couple hundred plant labels off of ebay because it it would take me forever to make that many and times running out.

Here's a hack I use in my raised bed garden boxes when planting seeds.  Take a tennis ball (i use my dog's old balls that he doesn't like any more, he's a connoisseur) and stick it on a stick or other rod/pole.  Use it to push craters into the soil however far apart your plants require.  It's a fast way to do a bunch of seeds without having to dig a bunch of holes by hand, once you make your craters just sprinkle a couple seeds in each one and push a small amount of dirt over on top of the seeds.  Aside from saving my back having to bend over and plant all these seeds by hand, my favorite part is that the craters keep their shape so as the seeds are coming up, I can tell whether something is a weed or not by where it's growing.  In the crater, its probably what I planted, outside of a crater, it's gotta go.

---

Lemnaminor said:

dealing with glochids like a boss
seriously, taping your fingers helps you a lot in repotting opuntias and relatives.

---

ferrel_human said:

Lemnaminor said:

dealing with glochids like a boss
seriously, taping your fingers helps you a lot in repotting opuntias and relatives.

---

That's awesome man.

I got another. Egg cartons that are made of recycled paper can be used to sow seeds in and you can transplant the single cell into soil with no I'll effects. The seedlings roots will grow through the bottom into the soil. Nifty way to recycle those egg cartons once again.

---

ferrel_human said:

I got another. Egg cartons that are made of recycled paper can be used to sow seeds in and you can transplant the single cell into soil with no I'll effects. The seedlings roots will grow through the bottom into the soil. Nifty way to recycle those egg cartons once again.

---

...

Lemnaminor said:

pencil always have shown superiority to pen.
It's said that Americans invented a special pen to write on zero gravity, because pens didin't work in the space.

---

karode13 said:

Not having my plants labeled sends me into a fetal position, wondering how to make sense of it all.

---

cowsRmeat said:

I saw this online today and thought I would share. It was for sale advertised as a Ladybug feeding station.  It claims you can feed ladybugs and keep them around when aphids are scarce. Basically the 'feeder' is a piece of bamboo hung horizontally and you put a raisin or two inside and the ladybugs will hang out and eat that instead of moving on...

So apparently ladybugs eat raisins...



Here is a quote from the website.
"Aphids are the most common garden pest and are difficult to control by spraying. Luckily, one ladybug can eat dozens of aphids a day, seeking them out wherever they hide. Ladybugs also prey on mealybugs, scale, leaf hoppers and mites. Bait these natural bamboo feeding stations with a raisin or two to welcome ladybugs into your garden and provide food when aphids are scarce."

I can link to the site if you guys want/think it is allowed, just didn't think I should since they were selling these things.

---