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fabric scraps I cut and pressed keep finding their way into my projects and activities. My latest inspiration: Garden Markers!
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The little pieces of fabric are already cut, with pinking shears, and folded in half. All that remained was sewing a seam... just wide enough to slip over the pruned twigs from our apricot tree. Dowels would work, too.
So far, my experiment is working... next, I slipped a scrap of paper into the fold of the fabric, so my Sharpie would not bleed through.
Kale. Zinnias. Beets.
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Here is the garden bed, tilled,
amended with EcoScraps no poop, organic soil and planted with carrot, beets, kale, and zinnia seeds. We put a sturdy twig at the top of each row of seeds, and now all we need are some markers.
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Kale! After all the work of digging, hauling, pulling weeds, setting the seeds... well, it's a tiny bit of a disappointment not to see something colorful right away. We are days and days away from germination, and it will be weeks before we can stand proudly and anticipate a harvest.
Ah, the waiting game.
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I like these garden markers. Our seeds are labeled.
I am not too proud to admit: I do forget what seeds went where! And there is even some color and liveliness in the quiet garden bed.
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No need to label this one!
But what about the carrots?
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Maria took care of marking the carrot seeds! With a scrap from the goat gate, she drew a harvest of happy carrots, all the varieties.
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