Accessible Gardening: #19 Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners , 3 by BetNC

BetNC wrote:
I'm SOOO bored laying in bed with my feet up!!!~ I DO get up (briefly) for usual stuff (bathroom breaks, fix a meal, tend my Tomato Jungle etc).

I thought idly of how to demolishj the Jungle. It'd be real neat to blast the suckers clean out of their containers; that way, I wouldn't have the chore ofcutting them down etc. (The lawnmower guy just mows over any leaves, branches that I toss on th3e lawn: he's on a riding mower and mpws over EVERYTHING in his path!). As kids, I rememb3er how an M80 would blow an ant hole to smithereens. . . .but they'd be too puny to shift the plants. Then I briefly considered dynamite? {naw..overkill], grenades? [naw, not specific enough: they'd destroy my patio, too] whaT I need is a SHAPED charge! What about claymores? [naw, they'd take out part of the shed-type thing] home-made gunpowder?. . . I think I should abandon ALL plans of using explosives. . . . I SURE don't wanna be no terroriwst=in-training!!

How about tqaking the weed whacker to them? [naw, the wire cages would tear up my weed whackere].

**sad sigh** I guess I'll just have to end them like anybody else. . . but I CAN make it a party!! Who's bringing the keg?? Turn up that radio!!! Laissez les bonne temps roule!! woooWEEE!

The first thing I saw when I o-pened my back door, to go out and tend The Tomato Jungle, was more flowers on my cherry tomato plant! AAAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!! And 2 other plants also had bright yellow flowers! I had just pruned off the bottom non-producing leafy branches (they'd already produced, at the begginning of the season), tohelp the plants ripen what they had, before their scheduled demise on October 11. I feel BETRAYED!!!!

Here's some pics:

1 view from my back door: traitorous FLOWERING plant!!!
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3 The Tomato Jungle (long view) I planted singlet French marigolds in the ground, as they attracted insects (I've seen several different colors of butterflies, big fat bumblebees and a wal.king stick - who also prowls the tomato plants!)
4 today's yield
5 my "neighbor" garden replanted in zinnias for this summer (the pic under my name is the same garden, in spring)


Here's some pics