Seed Starting In Egg Cartons

“It’s finally time to start seeds again! After months of winter garden dreaming, action at last!

First come the onions. We’re planting a bunch this year, maybe not enough to grow all our own, but enough to make a dent.

And we start just about every meal with sautéing onions in olive oil, so we’re starting 150 onion seeds, and we’ll see where that takes us.

While we’ve got some of those black plastic trays you see at garden stores for seed starting, we don’t have enough of them for 150 onions and everything else we’ll be starting later on.

So we got creative…”

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...


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