Steve, I like your near-white, but today's purple with watermark, gorgeous!
Kid, love your pale lavenders.
Going a bit off-topic here (not about seedlings, but does have some relevance, wrt toting around marking and measuring equipment and the like)...
Becky, I kind of think I understand what you mean, but pics! We want pics! (I think I'll probably stick with my little notebook, though. It's on the table, it doesn't get muddy or dirty, and the pages can't go flying loose, unlike your kleenex "eraser".)
But speaking of upgrading and new approaches, I am having to change how I carry around a few tools and the paper clips.
Years ago, my sister gave me a 3-pocket fabric tote thing for garden stuff. I used it for a while, for the tape measure, yarn, string, scissors, twist ties, miscellaneous stuff, but never really cared for it. (The pockets sagged in on themselves which I found
really annoying, and what to do if it got *really* dirty...)
For the past several years I have just left my hand pruners (pretty much used daily) out on the table (in dry weather - and we have mostly had dry weather), and I left my paper clips on a bench in the garden shed. I prop the door open during the day when I am working outside, so it was easy to just step in there and grab the clips as I worked with each pollen parent. Well, the rats got into the shed last year, so after tossing those clips out, I don't want to risk a repeat. (We did find and caulk a hole.) So the paper clips had to go into the house
So this year, I've been carrying a flat cardboard tray (the kind that holds 12 cans of food or bottles of iced tea) out to the patio table each day. It is lightweight and just big enough to hold the notebook/pen, some cups of paper clips, a ruler (easier to measure bloom sizes with than the measuring tape), and the measuring tape. That worked well, until the table got wet (due to filling up a watering can so I could liquid fertilize some things).
So this weekend I went surfing on Amazon and found a (hard, easily cleanable, disinfectable) plastic shower caddy with some compartments which look to be the right size, in which I can put the hand pruners, wire cutters (I am working on some fencing panels), notebook/pen, ruler/measuring tape, rose gauntlets (the only kind of non-disposable glove I use in the garden), paper clips and tags, and maybe other miscellaneous things in. (What about trowels, you ask? I have several of those, which I just leave stuck in the dirt or raised beds in strategic locations...
) I am hoping that I will be right about the size/suitability of this caddy (and the compartments), and that it will work out well. I'll find out later this week, I guess.
Now back to your regularly scheduling seedling parade.
