Accessible Gardening: #11-Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners, 0 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
I've gone through periods like that, Katiebear. I don't know anything to do except just keep putting one foot in front of the other. I want someone to manufacture the kind of stuff Carrie mentioned recently. You know, the indestructible stuff that is so safe babies can teeth on it. :-)
Battery chargers have been giving me grief lately. I bought one on sale from PCH, but it didn't come with a power adapter and it was 6 volt AC. A real oddball made in China. PCH sent me another one of the same kind and it exploded. It literally blew apart. I bought one of those 15 minute chargers from Radio Shack and the power adapter burnt out ONE WEEK after it was out of warranty. They've changed design and they don't carry that type of Power adapter anymore so even though the base unit was okay, I had to buy an entirely new charger. I just bought another one from Radio Shack with a standard power adapter that charges in 2 hours. So far, so good.
Yesterday was a very productive day, but it exhausted all of us. We are spuding today. Things have started blooming again. Lantana, Rose of Sharon, Purple coneflower, sunflowers and black-eyed Susans have carried the week. The common cosmos are hanging in. There are some things from a cutting mix Vickie sent me and a wildflower mix someone gave Kay that have buds. I copied the list of flowers in the mixes so IDing them should be easy when they bloom. The rose periwinkle are still going strong, but it is if-y that they will make it through the winter. We will do what we can to see we have those next year.
Tomatoes and 'Sugar Baby' watermelon are still producing. Figs still aren't ripe. We will divide up that tree and move some off-shoots to a warmer place on the south side of the property. We have some dramatic micro-climates because of the stream and the lay of the land. I think we inadvertently found another cool pocket. (Jim)