Garden Craft - Spoon Markers and Stone Stawberries

Thanks to the blogosphere, gardening is much more crafty then I ever imagined. We already covered the trellises and strawberry pyramid my husband built.

This weekend, I decided to wrap up some smaller crafts that are aimed at improving the garden.

First, I made plant markers. You never realize just how useful those things are until you don't have them. I found a link using old spoons, print outs, and modge podge.

Et voila, garden markers:

We ended up going to Goodwill to get the spoons (10 cents each, woo) and I printed out the clip art veggies at work (shh, don't tell anyone). Whole project was less than $5. And I made 30 of them. Yes, 30.

Next up, another idea via Pinterest, was some strawberry stones. You are supposed to put them in your strawberry bed BEFORE the strawberries grow, so birds try to eat them, realize they aren't real, and leave the real strawberries alone when they do grow.

Here is my best attempt at painting strawberries - don't judge me.

We'll see if it actually works, I'm not sure birds will be our biggest threat. I think Mr. Squirrel might hold that spot. Guess we'll find out soon.

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