CynthiaWVirginia
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From: West Virginia, USA
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I admit that I couldn't get into the message boards last night. Stuff in the scroll was killing me, lol, I wanted to come here to read it all!
I admit that I had fun at a Black Friday sale and indulged myself to the tune of $250 and I'm still feeling drunk about that. (Usually I get myself nothing for Christmas, as my son comes to me with "that face" and whimpers for a WII or several expensive games.)
I admit that I am still packing away decorations for Halloween, and haven't started on decorating for Christmas yet.
I admit that I like Halloween better than Christmas...and that I am staring at an almost door sized Halloween wall hanging I made when my son was in preschool. It still looks as good as the day I made it and the eyes still glow in the dark. I'm going to hate putting this away and having to wait until next year to see it all again.
I admit that we didn't turn two pumpkins into Jack O' Lanterns this year, as we had about a foot of snow on the ground and...afterward I decided to keep them intact until I am ready to take out the seeds, soak them in salt water and then put them on a cookie sheet in the oven until the ends of the shells pop a little. A friend of mine turns pumpkins into pumpkin pies, but alas, I am used to making it from cans of pumpkin and my last attempts to cook pumpkin "right" failed. Current recipe books I have tell how to make pumpkin pie by using canned pumpkin...I need to locate a "first, kill the chicken" type recipe book that will tell me how to handle doing this from scratch, lol.
I admit that next year, I plan to begin "square foot gardening". The book I snagged was different from others in that a removable chicken wire cage was added. Yay! It will solve the problem of my cats rolling on top of the seedlings and neighborhood animals digging up fun stuff to play with, like onion bulbs.
I admit that my spending orgy at Lowes on Black Friday may have messed me up for cat proofing the two small greenhouses I bought. They're like wide book cases, made of metal, with a clear covering it that has a long zipper at the "door". My cats broke in through the top to munch and lie down on the plants, gleefully rolling around in the potting soil. Aargh! I wanted to get rid of the clear stuff and get in some lucite panels or something. If anyone knows of a link on growing stuff like lettuces and herbs indoors, please send it to me. These came with no sources of light and I'm planning on light panels and need to know the minimum, and how far away from the plants. I used to have a hydroponics book years ago that told me this info but it got lost in all the moves.
I admit I want to grow buttercrunch lettuce and several other varieties that are rarely if ever in our grocery stores. I wish I could grow tomatoes in a greenhouse indoors, but I read somewhere that the leaves are poisonous to cats. I would like a little area for herbs, but my sage outside grew three feet tall, and the rosemary I saw at Lowes was also three feet tall. Much too tall for my greenhouses. I would like to grow catnip and cat grass (oat grass?), and maybe bring some of my mint indoors. Other than that, I dunno. I miss living in California and being able to pick an outer leaf or two from each head of lettuce in a short row for most of a year. Here in WV, I have to buy pony packs of these at Lowes for way too much money...and within a short time the weather gets hot and they bolt (start growing seeds instead of lettuce).
I admit I used to have a book that told me which plants were safe to grow around cats, and now I am afraid to sprout a sweet potato or avocado pit. :(
Happy holidays, everyone.
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