Homemade Gifts - Extra Large Cutting Board

Homemade Gifts - Kubb Set

Now that Christmas has passed, we can share some videos on homemade gifts that we did this year.

Christmas Traditions

Small Space Storage - A Kitchen Shelf

Storage solutions for small spaces.  Be sure to stay until the end for a major mistake caught on video.

Seeds

 We've harvested squash and pumpkin seeds in the past. It's a great way to be self sufficient. Our squash and pumpkins this year were grown exclusively from seeds we saved. We're hopeful if we pick the best seeds from the best plants we can help our plants become geared for the short, cold, growing season up here. 

So this year we decided to branch out. 

We saved the seeds from the one tiny watermelon we got. 

 

We also tried cucumbers. Our cucumber seeds weren't viable. Our season wasn't long enough for a cucumber to develop enough (almost rotting) for the seeds to be fully formed. 

 

We did get a bunch of carrot seeds. I was worried I had done it wrong, or that they too, wouldn't be viable. I didn't want to plant them next year and have nothing come up, so we decided to test them. I sprinkled a few in a cup of dirt and look what happened.

Twelve carrots sprouted. I didn't count how many I sprinkled in so I don't have an exact percentage of germination, but I didn't put in too many so I suspect it's at least 75%, 

I'm pretty excited. 

We wanted to try onion seeds also, but Baby Bear kept pulling them up. Maybe next year she'll be old enough. We'll try the cucumber again next year, also. It would be nice if we could cultivate a crop a little better suited to our climate.