MaryL
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Post by MaryL on Mar 9, 2019 17:58:45 GMT -5
I spent an hour cleaning out and rearranging my AG supply cabinet this morning (at least, where most of my AG supplies are. I keep more immediate AG supplies in the kitchen). I also keep some other gardening stuff in this cabinet like peat pots and Oasis foam blocks for flower arranging. I went through all my old kit boxes and consolidated several of them, mostly herbs, and threw several boxes away. It inspired me to start another herb garden and a salad garden (to be posted shortly). I also threw out the useless AG trellises of which I probably had 3 wrapped up in plastic wrap. And I threw out 2 or 3 styrofoam seed starting blocks I had gotten from Park Seed, because now I use my Sprout seed starting tray. After all that I’m astonished that I seem to have not much extra space left. I guess I had my Jenga game down pretty good, lol. Well, at least I’m re-acquainted now with what I have (I found 5 new replacement pumps! I’ve never needed them.) and I started new gardens. Note I have not put back any of my custom seed collection yet. Where to put them now! Where do you all keep your AG supplies?  |
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Shawn
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Post by Shawn on Mar 9, 2019 18:57:54 GMT -5
This is a good one.
I have supplies in several places but you inspired me to organize. I will do that tomorrow and post a picture.
And I must say you are pretty darned organized!
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MaryL
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Post by MaryL on Mar 10, 2019 12:23:07 GMT -5
I have to say it was rewarding. I realized I have at least 7 Genovese basil pods! and skads of Thai basil and mint, the latter 2 of which I’ll never use. Anyone want my Thai basils or mints? PM me and I’ll happily send.
This is is a strangely shaped cabinet which limits how I can organize. It’s hard to see but the upper shelf is divided by fixed vertical wood dividers. Hence why some seed kits are on their side. I wonder what kind of cabinet this was, what it was used for? I’ll probably never know.
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Shawn
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Post by Shawn on Mar 10, 2019 14:41:06 GMT -5
Not nearly as neat but it will do until another day. I was sitting on the floor way to long....
Got rid of many kits that were old and combined new kits together.
Plus I have my box with all my seeds and labels in it and another separate box with just Park Sponges (there is another bag in the picture above.
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Post by clumsythumbs on Mar 10, 2019 18:22:20 GMT -5
They both look really orderly and clean (to me). Also can see how quickly "things" accumulate once you've been doing this a while!
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Post by KarenR on Mar 10, 2019 20:37:08 GMT -5
I like to keep my seeds in the fridge so I remove the seed sponges from their cages and store like sponges together in a zip lock bag. Such as, the 6 dills and 5 mints I am unlikely to use and the 4 thyme and basil I probably will use later grouped together in separate baggies with their labels in the (Beer) fridge. I stack the empty cages and stores them with my fertilizers, ph adjustors, siphon hoses, extra Park's pods, domes, hydroton, etc. all fit nicely in a 10x12 covered bin. I find breaking down the AG pods saves a lot of space.
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MaryL
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Post by MaryL on Mar 12, 2019 16:53:25 GMT -5
I find breaking down the AG pods saves a lot of space. I totally agree. That’s how I got my over abundance of Thai basils into one box. And dill, parsley, tomatoes and Genovese into their lone boxes as well. In fact I considered breaking all the others down, too, to save even more room but it got tiresome, lol. That can be for another day. Shawn I think yours looks incredibly organized - it looks great. Bear in mind I still have lots of junk (various bottles of food and supps) under the kitchen sink, and small stuff like baskets, covers etc in a kitchen drawer. I like your catch-all for small loose items you have on the right. I have got got to come up with a better solution for keeping/organizing all my custom seeds now. Soooo many envelopes and bead baggies of varying sizes, grouped with rubber bands which invariably break, envelopes and baggies slip sliding around despite said rubber bands...it’s a mess. What does everybody else do? |
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Post by Shawn on Mar 12, 2019 17:03:22 GMT -5
The box I am using is SOOOO helpful
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