Sunday, April 17, 2011

Pallet Love In Action

My friend JB posted this week on Pallet Love.

Here is love in action. Step One: Read someone's blog and follow link to tutorial.
Step Two: Craigslist free pallets and send husband on a 'honey do' errand that includes retrieving eight pallets of varied sizes. Extras to be given away or used to trellis potato and cucumber vines around the yard's existing and coming beds.

Step Three: Buy stapler and staples, garden fabric and a few more plant starts than the lettuce, arugula, pansies, mint, basil and rosemary already on hand.
Step Four: return stapler and staples. Husband has one already- hiding apparently. Buy worm castings with the extra $$. Use these to fertilize transplanted tomato starts. That's another project. -- By the way, does anyone know if fire extinguisher chemicals are toxic, 'cause some of those starts got sprayed in a small cooking fire in my kitchen last night. That too is another story.
Step Five: Follow tutorial to staple garden fabric on pallets in the kitchen because it's cold and rainy outdoors.


Step Six: Use iPhone for quick pics.
Step Seven: Next warm day, transplant pansies, mind, lettuce and arugula to first pallet love. Set up extra pallet next to the bed where seed potatoes will go. Tutorial says to wait a few days, seven at least, to perch this at an upright angle.
Step Eight: Blog and rest.

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