Accessible Gardening: Practical Matters For Physically Challanged Gardeners#4, 0 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
I harvested 7 beefsteak tomatoes today. First tomato harvest of the year. They took longer to ripen than I thought they would. A few were not ideally ripe, but there has been so much rain lately they were in danger of cracking and splitting if they had been left on the vines. Grazed on blackberries and blueberries while I was in the garden.
The cannas have begun to bloom. ‘Friar’ plums STILL don’t look ripe. I wasn’t able to examine them as carefully as I would have liked. Momma and Daddy bird strenuously objected to my getting to close to their nest in the plum tree.
Kay stayed awake all day today, but I insisted she stay inside and do some cyber housekeeping. She did succeed in catching up on all her e-mail. Wait until she learns I have another inside day planned for her tomorrow. She needs to go thru those hundreds of bookmarked web pages and thin it down to a more manageable 30 or so. That should keep her busy all day and she will be irritated with me by the end of the day. Most of those are links to online nurseries and I will have to stay on her case to keep her on task. Those online catalogs distract her easily. Lol. There were 4 or 5 unread DG newsletters. That is what took her so long today. Lol.
Carrie, do you happen to know if the DG articles are indexed by subject any place that subscribers have access to. I mean, if I decided I wanted to read the DG articles available on coleus, or garden design or seed starting is there a place I could go to find them organized that way?. All I’ve noticed is organization by writer. Love the shade of blue those flowers are.
Those are nice, Debra. There is just something about black-eyed susans. We don't have any black-eyed susans blooming right now. The ladies intentionally dragged their heels to try to get their blooming to coincide with our very large wild ones and the Jerusalem artichoke flowers. Next year I want to plant at least a few early, even if their plan does work. (Jim)
Photo: Purple-leaf cannas have started blooming.