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Feb 24, 2015 8:27 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Master Level Garden Sages I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database.
I loved it! You pack a lot of examples into a short video. Your camera-man or camera-woman is excellent.

I'm going to look for a "tapas dish" to replace some of my funnels.

Maybe a "corn-on-the-cob" dish would work.

Right now, I have many "funnels" that I made by rolling stiff paper into cones (large, small, narrow or wide). I use heavy card stock, covers of magazines and cards received as junk mail. Usually the funnels only need to fit into an open 2"x3" Ziploc, but sometimes I need to funnels seeds into a measuring cylinder sold for measuring children's' liquid medicine. The tip of THAT funnel had to be quite small.

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The "children's medicine measuring tube" only holds around 2 teaspoons, so I marked up a liquor glass for measuring larger packets or seed harvests.

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Other than a 1/64th teaspoon, stainless steel measuring spoon, these are my best effort so far to create a teeny-tiny seed scoop. I cut off an inch or two of soda straw, and cut one end to a sharp angle. Then I slit the inch or two lengthwise. Then I wrap it tightly around a skewer, chopstick or very small dowel, then Scotch-tape the plastic straw to the wooden dowel. Sometimes I tape the straw firmly to the stick, and sometimes I leave it able to slid against friction, so I can set the "scoop" size to be small, tiny, or infinitesimal.


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