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By Sheila_FW | Use baseball card collection pages in a ring-binder to hold seed packets. [View the item] |
Name: Sheila F Fort Worth TX (Zone 8a)              Sheila_FW Sep 8, 2011 10:29 PM CST |
Rick....as a matter of fact that large binder was one that I had brought home long ago from a bid packet or class from work!  |
Name: Rick Corey Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a) Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f             RickCorey Sep 9, 2011 10:42 AM CST |
| I love the fact that now we can say "re-purposing" and "recycling" instead of "cheapskate", "used", and "second-hand junk". "Cheap" is good, "free" is best. I checked my Dollar store last night, but no baseball-card pages or alphabetical folders. Just because it ISN'T complicated doesn't mean I can't MAKE it complicated! Weather Links ~ Sunset Zones ~ Degree Days ~~ National Gardening Association Kitazawa Seeds ~ Tainong Seeds ~~ ATP Member Map ~~ My Blogs ~~ Coop Extension Finder Seriously Hot Peppers ~~ Seed Library Resources ~~ Piggy Swap Chat #11 |
Name: Sheila F Fort Worth TX (Zone 8a) Sheila_FW Sep 9, 2011 5:48 PM CST |
| Rick....I don't think the dollar stores will have the baseball card collector sheets. I think I got mine at a Hobby Lobby....but I found these with a search. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PWZU4E/ |
Name: Rick Corey Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a) Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f RickCorey Sep 9, 2011 6:53 PM CST |
I see the Amazon offer. Also available at 50% off from another vendor, plus 75% shipping  >> I don't think the dollar stores will have the baseball card collector sheets. True, until someone overproduces a few million of them, and dumps them on the market. Then they'll be cheap enough to wallpaper greenhouses with them. Just because it ISN'T complicated doesn't mean I can't MAKE it complicated! Weather Links ~ Sunset Zones ~ Degree Days ~~ National Gardening Association Kitazawa Seeds ~ Tainong Seeds ~~ ATP Member Map ~~ My Blogs ~~ Coop Extension Finder Seriously Hot Peppers ~~ Seed Library Resources ~~ Piggy Swap Chat #11 |
Name: Stephanie Gonzales Texas (Zone 8a)     StephGTx Sep 9, 2011 7:24 PM CST |
| I buy mine from Staples if that helps anyone. If you want to get them from Hobby Lobby, wait till they put them on sale. Their sales will rotate every month, so it gets easy to keep up with when there is something your waiting on. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. |
Name: Anna North Texas (Zone 8a)     canadanna Sep 10, 2011 6:56 AM CST |
| Thanks for the great tip I know I have those sheets somewhere when my son collected cards. Where do you get those little envelopes? |
Name: Sheila F Fort Worth TX (Zone 8a) Sheila_FW Sep 10, 2011 7:43 PM CST |
| The plastic seed bags are a $1 at Walmart for 100 count I think. I found them in school supplies. |
Name: Stephanie Gonzales Texas (Zone 8a) StephGTx Sep 11, 2011 7:25 AM CST |
| They have them at Micheal's and Hobby Lobby too. They are with the beads. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. |
Name: Sheila F Fort Worth TX (Zone 8a) Sheila_FW Sep 11, 2011 7:50 PM CST |
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Name: Rick Corey Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a) Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f RickCorey Sep 13, 2011 12:12 PM CST |
| Here's an alternative to the plastic sheets with pockets - I got the idea from Jonna Sudenious who mailed me some seeds this way. Tape seed packets to a piece of paper or cardstock. Punch three holes in the card stock. All done! Scoth tape peels easily off the plastic Ziploc. Or rather, you can peel the Ziploc away from the tape when you wnat to sow from it. I'd rather tape along the side of the packlet, rather than over the lip. I imagine that some glue might stick to the lip, and seeds stick to the glue. Or, permantly tape a sandwich baggie or three to a piece of cardboard and fill the baggies with many 2x3 Ziplocs. This is more like bulk storage than "display". Just because it ISN'T complicated doesn't mean I can't MAKE it complicated! Weather Links ~ Sunset Zones ~ Degree Days ~~ National Gardening Association Kitazawa Seeds ~ Tainong Seeds ~~ ATP Member Map ~~ My Blogs ~~ Coop Extension Finder Seriously Hot Peppers ~~ Seed Library Resources ~~ Piggy Swap Chat #11 |
Name: Allison NJ (Zone 6a)      Onewish1 Sep 13, 2011 7:48 PM CST |
| love it!! |
Name: Louise East Texas, zones 7b/8a  louise Nov 12, 2012 9:51 AM CST |
Thanks, thanks,thanks! A annoying problem solved!  LM |
Name: Caroline Scott Calgary (Zone 4a)         CarolineScott Aug 25, 2013 10:36 PM CST |
| I send seeds to seed exchanges in one or two of these pages. Also use photo size inserts for bulk packs of seed. |
Name: Rick Corey Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a) Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f RickCorey Aug 26, 2013 12:14 PM CST |
| They also make pretty presents if you find some color photos and reduce them to fit in the Zip-locs or in the pockets. A waiter in a Chinese restaurant overheard me talking about tomatoes, and asked me what variety he should send his mother for Mother's Day. So I went back later with a clear trading-card-page stuffed with a variety of tomato varieties and he loved it. I didn't have tomato photos, but I made up this page of Asian Brassicas just as decoration.  Just because it ISN'T complicated doesn't mean I can't MAKE it complicated! Weather Links ~ Sunset Zones ~ Degree Days ~~ National Gardening Association Kitazawa Seeds ~ Tainong Seeds ~~ ATP Member Map ~~ My Blogs ~~ Coop Extension Finder Seriously Hot Peppers ~~ Seed Library Resources ~~ Piggy Swap Chat #11 |
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