Accessible Gardening: #14: Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners , 0 by Amargia

Amargia wrote:
Happy Friday the 13th everyone. We’ve already received all our F-13th bad luck. I hope!!! Water pump on the truck busted and we given one of Amargia’s children money to get herself out of a fix so we can’t afford to have it replaced at the auto repair shop. No good deed goes unpunished. Lol. The upside was we could afford the new water pump just not the labor cost. We bought a new pump and Jim’s going to do the work himself. I have no superstitions about Friday the 13th. I am very superstitious about July 13th. The worst events of my life happened on July 13th starting with marrying husband #1 on July 13th. :-(
I don’t know how much time I spent looking for a GP who accepted Medixcaid before out community started a family health center. Not a perfect solution, but it is better than it was before. The Boston area boast many top notch health facilities. Perhaps that raises the bar for health care in general.
I just remembered something, Vickie. Look for garlic and brewers yeast tablets in the pet section next time you go to WalMart. They help a lot with fleas on cats and I had no trouble getting my cat to take them. In fact, Catherine, the cat declared war on my ankles if I forgot her med time. She looked upon them as treats. Our local WalMart doesn’t carry the tablets anymore. I have to order them a natural pet supply store online for the dogs. I guess the garlic tabs were so effective and inexpensive people weren’t buying the pricier flea and tick control items.
The tomatoes planted around the rim of the sunken garden are doing especially well. They were not staked or caged, but left to 0tumble down the walls. Those plants are more productive than either the strawbale or Ebucket grown tomatoes. I have an unused topsy-turvy planterI’m going to put a plant in it and see if I get the same effect. It is unused because of the expense. It is very heavy unless very light, purchased potting soil is used.
The odd looking tomatoes with the pebbles on their skin taste fine. I’ve never grown ‘Livingston” before. The plant is very healthy. I’ve assuming it is normal for the cultivar.
I think’ This is a better picture of ‘Voodoo Dancer’.