gardenwife

Aww, CJ reminds me of our dear girl, Sarah. We miss that dog! Your memorial turned out great.

I love this tutorial and have come back to it on more than one occasion. Instead of trash bags, you can also get cheap vinyl tablecloths at the dollar store and stretch them over top, then tie twine around them to hold them in place. The vinyl tablecloths are thicker.

If the baskets are a little smaller than the bottom of the tote, the soil does go down around them on the edges and wick water up.

They are beautiful! What would you suggest for sealing the paper so that it could withstand, say, being out in the rain unexpectedly?

This is such a great system you've come up with. I like how you've got the bolts for attaching trellises. I wish we had tools and were more handy!

I didn't know that about linseed oil and the other concoctions. I guess I haven't really used it except decades ago on some tack at a barn. Thank you for posting that cautionary information.

Microwave oven wattage can vary from model to model, so it could be Ethen's microwave is more powerful than yours and doesn't require as long as cook time as yours did. How densely the flour and cocoa were packed during measuring would make a difference, too.