Something New This Year

[RozieMozie]

i hah a brain storm while waiting for the butteries to arrive this year ... i decided that i'd try a method to only take off the egg and not the whole leaf ... i hunted down my single hole punch and started punching out the leaves around the eggs ... it worked wonderfully, im leaving the whole leave with only a hole in it, yet im able to take the eggs away ... i did find that i have to clean the hole punch with each leave punch because the sticky milk made it hard to pick the punched leave off it was allowed to build up

my most recent eggs


a well used leave on the milk weed in my back year

[Seanaldo]

Awesome! I always feel bad 'wasting' a leaf when I collect an egg!

[Seanaldo]

Oh--and I recently posted about a problem with leaf pieces molding--how do you keep these little bits of leaf fresh?

[RozieMozie]

Awesome! I always feel bad 'wasting' a leaf when I collect an egg!

so did i, esp when it came to my milk weed

Oh--and I recently posted about a problem with leaf pieces molding--how do you keep these little bits of leaf fresh?

i've had a few circles go bad and that kill the egg in the process ... one way i keep the fresh is to clean the hole punch with every leave punch, that way i was getting a clean cut every time ... to clean it i do a couple of punches on a baby wipe ... and then i put the punched circles on a wet paper towel ... they do a decent job at staying fresh on the paper towel