Spring Starters

I’ve ordered several early season protections from Stokes Seeds. They had a great sale and I’m waiting for these:


This little mesh cloche can be wherever I need it to be to give plants a head start.

This little greenhouse can keep plants cozy on cool days.

This little portable cold frame can also move where it works best with no problems.

Garden Treasure Hunting

I love the Flea Market Gardening page.  They find ways use all sorts of commonplace objects artfully in the garden.

There was an article on finding glass containers as cloches.  I use gallon milk jugs, but that’s not so pretty.

https://www.fleamarketgardening.org/2015/03/21/garden-cloche-vintage-beauty-under-glass/

Since I was out and about, I visited a thrift shop looking for some nice big glass object that could be a cloche.  I found a nice one that is light weight enough so I don’t need to worry about ease of lifting it on and off of a plant.

Perhaps I shouldn’t have grabbed a cart.

You see garden pictures all of the time with old metal colanders used as planters.  I’m painting this pink.

The article mentioned chicken wire cloches, which would be great protection, but chicken wire is so hard to work with.   How about something metal, which can keep the beasts and bunnies away, and let in light and water?

I’m sure there’s also a spot in the garden for these as well.  Or in the garden shed.

Clever Cloches (not)

Well, desperate, not so clever.  In my determination to cover my seedlings at night I carved the botton off of a Tidy Cat Plastic Container and a big old Hawaiian Punch plastic bottle.  I'm also using a Folgers empty plastic container on a tomato.

I'm better prepared some years and have saved back gallon milk jugs which are GREAT with the bottoms sliced off. You can easily vent the container by taking off the cap.

I wish I drank more pop so I had some liter bottles to use but noooo, June 8th and I'm scrabbling for things to protect my babies from the cold.

On the plus side I seem to have plenty of empty tp rolls to use as cutworm collars for my seedlings...