[Ag-eq] Further to: Success!

[Tracy Carcione]

That was interesting.  Some very creative ideas.
I never thought about slugs/snails.  I never find their fat, slimy selves
when I'm poking around my garden, but I suppose they could be there.
I have some small plastic pots I could put over my plants for a bit.  They
have holes in already to let in some rain.  But I'd think things would get
real hot under there when the sun comes out.
Tracy

> You might be entertained by the following messages in reply to mine
> relating the small success I
> have had, at long last, in getting some veggie seeds to germinate.
> From: "Sally
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 9:28 AM
> To: <nz-blindgardeners at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: re: [nz-blindgardeners] SUCCESS
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> well congratulations Jewel. I would never have tried to plant
> seeds for cauli broccolli or cabbage s always bought the small
> plants well started,  , not sure why as grow beans and carrots
> radishes etc from seed so good on you  protect them well I often
> put a , dirty word but plastic bottl cut in half over top of the
> plant ans either snails for birds eat the young plans. Just
> remember  to take it off when rains so can be watered. Just a
> suggestion. good  on you.
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> On 29/03/2019, at 1:42 PM, Jewel <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz> wrote:
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> As you may have deduced from my posts on recycling, that is what I do
> wherever I can.
> I have a little hothouse/germinating unit that I made from a small defunct
> microwave oven.
> I began by turning it over 90 degrees so that the back was the bottom, and
> the door, the top.
> Next:  I took the door out, just leaving the frame and replaced it, the
> door, with two little slides
> that had, formerly, been the window of a sandwich and cake display cabinet
> in a cafe.
> I left about a 2 inch gap between the slides that, no longer slid, and
> drilled some holes through
> them so that Gaia's bounty,in  the form of rain:, bounty which has got a
> little out of hand recently
> on the West Coast: and shows no sign, at present, of returning to a gentle
> shower rather than an
> absolute torrent, could get through.
> I drilled holes in the bottom so that the excess bounty would drain away.
>
>         Jewel
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> From Petrus:  how did you manage to sneak out of the cafe with the doors
> off their cake display? And
> did you take the cakes as well?
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> from Jewel:  Damn it to hell and back, Petrus!  That was supposed to be a
> secret and now all the
> hungry caterpillars:  wait a bit, caterpillars doesn't sound right!
> something beginning with c I
> think but don't bet the ranch on it:  who were at that cafe will know why
> the menu was hastily
> rewritten and gave them two options:  to whit: what was left of last
> week's bread, or nothing:  the
> butter having been purloined by the mannageress' dog!
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