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Nothing beats a beautiful morning… spring is kicking in good here with warm weather getting everyone excited to start their gardens and yard work. The hardware store where I went to buy soil and ended up picking up pepper plants and flowers and the nursery where I got updated herbs for my inside rack that have outgrown their pots were crowded to the max. I now have work ahead of me but it will have to wait till after Easter as mommas coming over at 2:00 to eat. I also got my new light in the mail yesterday. I opened the box and am hoping that everything works when I introduce it to my girls in the grow tent. They will be thrilled I’m sure and so will I.
Hey big I have a question for you. Last year at the flea market I saw this sweet homemade plant stand that I thought would be beautiful with flowers growing in it. I couldn’t live without it so I brought it home. I dint have anything but green bean seeds at the time and dropped a couple in each pot just to see something growing there. Well I didn’t take to long to realize that these little 4” pots with no bottom are gonna take more watering. Like twice a day watering some days. I did manage to get a couple pots of beans from the experiment but now wonder what I can use this rack for. I decided to buy some cheap marigolds to put in there but I’m still concerned that they may need water more than once a day. I talked to the nursery and they had this product they said I could add to the soil to help maintain some of the moisture a bit longer. I haven’t figured a way to put bottoms on the clay pots as to remove them, a bottom would not clear the hole. Maybe I can put something in the bottom that would hold the water in longer like a dryer sheet typed material. Got any ideas? I still love the planter. I plan to move it as you can see my flowers coming up under it and the dead bean plants are still in there
That a great idea. Now I need to find a couple diapers. No babies around here and we don’t need them yet thank goodness. I wonder if that stuff I bought in the jar is the same thing… have you ever seen it?
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Morning OFC. Gonna be a warm day....no wind please. Just checked and a dry trim is on the menu first thing. Gonna be a rush job....will be busy with the family this afternoon.
Yes I believe it is . I have used the soil Gel before , it swells and holds more water which was not very good for my MJ plants . I experimented with it it kept the soil too moist and no chance to really dry out.
But for your pots may help and I would maybe plug the holes to a very small one for drain
I’m wondering if I should just put some water on some of it and let it do it’s thing making the gel then mix it 50/50 as suggested on the diaper link instead of putting it in dry which is on the label directions. That way I know it’s 50/50
I would experiment with a lil and a lil soil it should mix OK
The gel pieces swell up pretty big so don't do 50/50 % dry , unless you try a small amount 1st. May over flow your pots when swelled up.
It been a while since I used them but them will hold water longer than soil alone
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Bein' a sooper lazy old engineer who was always tasked with the cheapest fix possibobble, even though I am now ********, I can definitely see a quick, cheap, easy fixeroo.
Get aluminum rain gutters. There are end pieces that go on easypeasy. Put the rain gutters under the pots, each one suspended with an artsy wire at a height that the flower pots are as deep in the gutters as necessary. Caulk the ends <-- tough job... mebbe 45-55 seconds each. Fill the gutters with water. Check every week or so and replenish the gutter.
It will be maintenance-free for decades.
Your Bill of Materials for the Enormous Hardware Emporium***
1. 20' aluminum gutter @$6/ft.
2. Eight end caps for gutters @$1.77
3. Wire -- be creative @$zerio
Darn... forgot to add the total (assuming you can't just find some scrap gutter or sumpin'). It goes like this: $134.16
***Many of my humor articles had me going there.
Bein' a sooper lazy old engineer who was always tasked with the cheapest fix possibobble, even though I am now ********, I can definitely see a quick, cheap, easy fixeroo.
Get aluminum rain gutters. There are end pieces that go on easypeasy. Put the rain gutters under the pots, each one suspended with an artsy wire at a height that the flower pots are as deep in the gutters as necessary. Caulk the ends <-- tough job... mebbe 45-55 seconds each. Fill the gutters with water. Check every week or so and replenish the gutter.
It will be maintenance-free for decades.
Your Bill of Materials for the Enormous Hardware Emporium***
1. 20' aluminum gutter @$6/ft.
2. Eight end caps for gutters @$1.77
3. Wire -- be creative @$zerio
Darn... forgot to add the total (assuming you can't just find some scrap gutter or sumpin'). It goes like this: $134.16
***Many of my humor articles had me going there.
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Good morning and Happy Easter to all of you believers, and happy pig out day to all you fellow heathens. I'm just here for the food.
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Shitdamnhellpissfartpoopdammit.
This is why, where the worst criticism of my book is that it is too short at 462 pages, but yet it does not hit any charts. I could not sell pardons in a woman's prison. I could not make out in a monkey whorehouse with a sackful of bananas. I could... where was I ??
I fergot the clincher: You can either get pre-colored (as in green) gutters, or you might want to decorate them yourself. Think: horizontal painted ivy.
This is why, where the worst criticism of my book is that it is too short at 462 pages, but yet it does not hit any charts. I could not sell pardons in a woman's prison. I could not make out in a monkey whorehouse with a sackful of bananas. I could... where was I ??
I fergot the clincher: You can either get pre-colored (as in green) gutters, or you might want to decorate them yourself. Think: horizontal painted ivy.
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Sack full of bananas was a new one on me. I'd always heard, "I couldn't get into a whorehouse with a fist full of fifties."
I often wonder if he has seen this movie more than once
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Can you move the rack to a location that the homes irrigation system hits it with water during sprinkle cycle?
Was he ever Remember he is a Snedeker
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