I don’t have time to read the folks on my links page as much as I’d like…the day really needs more hours, no? Found this fun little thing at My Grandpa’s Garden yesterday, and even though I was not specifically tagged, I’m playin’ along anyway:
- Flash Your Seed Stash – Show us where you keep your extras. Or, if your like me, dump that big bag onto the living room floor and grab the camera!
- Your Favorite Garden Photo – Doesn’t have to be current, just the one you’re most proud of.
- The Secret Spot – Take a picture of that part of the yard that you’ve given up hope on, nothing will grow, sun doesn’t shine, there is no hope. No yard is perfect!
- Your favorite garden tool – you know it, you love it, its not getting enough facetime on your blog – showcase it!
- Your garden rainbow. Go out into the garden and try to find a picture to represents each color in the rainbow, whether all in one photo or separate!
I’ll have my actual pics up later today, and in the meantime, tag Coriander, A, Caitlin and Michele to play along…
UPDATE: Answers!
For #1, as I told Caitlin in the comments, after spending a year or two keeping track of my seeds in a tatty Big Box Retailer Who Shall Not Be Named bag, I finally upgraded to this:
Which you can buy here. Extra snap-on trays here.
For #2, my current favorite is this one:
But I’m sure I’ll take one next week I like even better. I’m like that.
For #3, I’m sorry, I live in Florida, there are NO spots in my yard/garden that won’t grow something. We’re sub-tropical in zone, so we’re more often taking things out than begging them to grow. Have to be able to walk, y’know!
For #4, my favorite garden tool is this short square shovel:
It has seen more work this year alone than any other tool in our garage, and has complained about it (ie. creaking handles) the least. Good shovel. *pat pat*
For #5, here’s our garden rainbow:
We’ve got everything going in there except indigo, and it’ll be there once I get this heliotrope sprouted!
Bonus pic…the Orchard Baby corn has sprouted, woot!
Yes, that little tiny green thing there in the middle. Shutup.
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on May 8th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Oohhh, this is going to be humiliating… you don’t want to know where I keep my seeds…
on May 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Listen to your old granny…organization will set you free! (Yeah, I stole that from AB.)
I bought this a few weeks ago (it comes in a not-Xmas color, too, I just wasn’t paying attention at the time). And then added a couple more trays a few days ago. Seed packs fit perfectly…even in baggies as all mine are…yes, because I’m anal, but also because I Do. Not. Like. Surprises. It also holds my grease pencil and spare plant tags.
Don’t worry, our bedroom is still a disaster area of clean, unfolded laundry.
on May 8th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I love the stackable tray thingie! I must have one. I generally am quite organized, it’s just taking me a while to figure out how I want to organize our garden stuff. And we’re seriously short on storage space until we finish the remodel on the damn back room. No vacation for us over Memorial Day.
on May 9th, 2008 at 8:02 am
I could tell that it was corn… okay, I’m lying. I have oodles of garden pictures just from yesterday. I’ll have to get over to my blog later today.
on May 9th, 2008 at 8:18 am
The corn will be very much more impressive by next week, I promise. And thanks to A’s eddification, I’m going to plant Black Valentine beans at the base of the corn (once it makes ears), and let the beans climb up the corn stalks.
Xst, I’m getting all nature-y and shit, HALP!