Accessible Gardening: #21 Practical Matters for Phsically Challenged Gardeners, 1 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
lol. We have a California Dreaming' Garden. Needless to say, It's Tigger's space.
Sorry, I've been sick the last few days. Nothing serious. Just a fever I couldn't shake. I haven't even been checking my email.
Happy Birthday, Carrie. I checked out your pics on Facebook. Wish our place looked that neat. We are still playing catch-up. If you think loading pics is hard here, you haven't loaded any on the Gardening .org site. Sssslllooowww. They are working on it.
That's timely and interesting what you said about Backlofin. Kay told her doctor at the pain management center yesterday that she was going off the Backlofin. She takes it at night for leg spasms. She believes she can get relief from a magnesium and potassium supplement at night. The doc just asked if she still had some capsules left, in case she was mistaken. We will see how that goes. She has always had one foot in alternative medicine and claims that is a better reaction than she has had from many doctors. They get very little training in nutrition in med school. That is probably because there is no way to patent broccoli and make a huge profit off of it though Monsanto is doing its best to change that.
Nadi, Kay and I have decided we are sick of being sick and are trying some radical diet and lifestyle changes. It will be a struggle for me, but I have now seen the statistics on the effectiveness of statin drugs. My goal is to get this weight off so I don't need them to manage my BP. Losing weight made a dramatic difference for Kay and she wasn't significantly over weight. She changes and adapts easily. I have little doubt we will be dragging Nadi along kicking and screaming at times. lol. Her Dad wasn't good at expressing emotions. Cooking and serving delicious food was a way of showing love and Nadi grew up with that kind of relationship with food. The new regime will be hard for her. I'm just a hedonist who mistakenly believed that food was one pleasure I could still indulge in that didn't cause pain.
Who knows. Maybe by focusing on my general health I can cure these fevers the doctors dismiss as unimportant.
I didn't think about the Caliche soil there, TTC. I guess we will just have to make you your own garden space here to get you through the dearth of summer flowers there. A lily garden?
Sad to hear about the seizure, but glad there were no serious injuries.
Dave probably needs all the mood support supplements can give him. He's got a tough job.
We are on a summer schedule. Sleeping and goofing off during the heat of the day. Working mornings and evenings, we've managed to clear away dewberries that were overrunning a bed. Dewberries, blackberries and red raspberries are like weeds for us. Useful, but they will take over if we turn our backs too long. I'm eyeing the goji berries to see if we will be adding them to that list. They are behaving so far, but it takes a few years for them to fully establish.
The white lilies (Lilium longiflorum) are blooming everywhere. I have a feeling I will be trying to give those away in the next year or two, the way I'm trying to get people to take iris off our hands now. Kay can't resist propagating. I've found two more takers for the iris. I had better get those packages in the mail.
Today's daylily is 'Chinese Chariot.
' Blessings,.


This message was edited May 29, 2016 12:21 PM