u/m3lani3_

I’m just getting into glaze mixing and I want to experiment with a base glaze and add colorants(ex. A white base glaze with where I add 0.5 grams of copper carb for each test) but I worry that it will get hard to keep track of my results after doing a lot of tests so, I want to get ahead now. Do you guys use spreadsheets, just regular notebooks, Google Docs, or is there a specific website I can use for this? Also how do you mark the test tiles themselves because I was going to just use a combination of numbers, but I feel like that will quickly get confusing.

Hello fellow monarch enjoyers!!
Recently things have been warming up in my area and I live really close to Mexico where monarchs migrate so I wanted to contribute to helping them. My only worry is I don’t trust myself enough to take them inside and raise them, as I recognize that I’m a college student and might not be diligent enough to properly care for them. So I was wondering if there’s any way I can take a hands off approach. I was thinking of buying milkweed putting it in a safe area and planting companion plants around it to deter predators(advice on this would also be greatly appreciated) but I have also seen that too many caterpillars might get added to one plant and they will eat each other. I obviously want to avoid that so is there any solutions anyone has come up with or am I more supposed to let nature do its thing, or am I better off just not getting involved if I’m not sure I can do the commitment to raising them indoors. Advice would be greatly appreciated as I would really love to help these butterflies. They are a big part of my childhood growing up in socal so I really want to help if I can.