Frugal Friday
Jan. 31st, 2025 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Welcome back to Frugal Friday! This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed. Rule #1: this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc. I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.
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Rule #4: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.
With that said, have at it!
Overwintering geraniums
Date: 2025-02-01 05:10 pm (UTC)Happy Imbolc to all!
The photo of plants on a windowsill made me think of the little plantation on my office window. I have 5 Datura Angels' Trumpet cuttings flourishing in some home-made potting soil on my office windowsill. Then, I have cuttings of red geraniums (yes, I know they are really pelargoniums) and heavily-scented rose geraniums rooting vigorously. It is not a big windowsill so the production is very high for the space. I potted up 4 or 5 geranium cuttings to each 4-inch pot as I thought they would not all take. They all took.
So, I am not only saving money by not having to buy seeds or seedlings, I am saving time as my plants are already large and robust. I am also saving lives because I keep the same plants going for years.
I have tried the other ways of overwintering geraniums such as putting them dry into a cardboard box and expecting them to be alive in the spring but none of those techniques worked. The cuttings have been very easy and successful so far.
Maxine