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I insulated the ceiling of an old goat shed once with styrofoam egg cartons. Staple the lid of the carton to the ceiling and then close the bottom to the lid. Next carton goes in right beside it. If you need more R value you can stuff the cartons.
As a prepper, I’ve saved dryer lint for years. I have about 35 large Bic lighters and a very large Christmas can full of strike anywhere matches and two flint fire starters.
One of those fire starters is a master fire starter which costs more than the cheap ones. It had come and was on the coffee table and my husband and I were watching a survivor type TV program, and they on the show had to decide what to use to make fire. Husband said, “I’ve got a fire starter!”, picked up that starter and hit it with the attached tool, and lightning shot out of that down to the marble top coffee table. That was so strong it would had lit up wood. We were both shocked at the intensity of that bolt. That type fire starter should never be hit in the house and no kid should be allowed close to it.
I just wrote two long posts about autism on an FR thread and have a short one to write but came to this thread for R&R before writing the last one.
Johnny, I have six sunflowers I transplanted from cups to larger pots yesterday. I haven’t been outside today to see how all the transplants look today. The sun is shining so I hope they are all looking up and storing up energy to grow a bunch tonight.
I’ll step out there and see what’s happening.
I have six Sunflowers in pots outside now. They are not large but were too big for the cup so transplanted them yesterday to outside.
If growth and blossoms mean anything, I should have strawberries some day not far away I would think but I've never had any, so what do I know.
WHAT MAKES A DWARF MANDARIN ORANGE TREE MAKE ORANGES? It is full of blooms but they are beginning to fall off - the orange smell around that tree is really heavy. Do they magically make oranges? Don't see any baby oranges anywhere.
The three blackberry sticks are really growing leaves pretty fast.
I don't see any carrots coming up in the four grow bags where planted but maybe it takes a while for the seed to do their thing. I'm not used to sewing seed directly. I see tiny lettuce in the long planter but they are really tiny.
I wait with bated breath for those Walking Onions to start making onions at the top of the stalks but nothing yet. They look super strong.
I already need to transplant various tomatoes out of the cups under grow lamp to larger pots. Maybe I can do that today.
I’m curious, about how much seed do you get from the average sunflower, after the shells are removed?
I’m trying to plan out what I’d need to grow to maintain my current diet, more or less.
By starting peanuts early inside, it’s possible to squeeze in two seasons.