Accessible Gardening: Practical Matters for Physically Challanged Gardeners #7, 1 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
I had a good day. I have not had one of those in awhile.
I discovered I like beautyberry jelly much to my surprise. To me, the florescent purple of the berries just didn’t look like something one should be eating. Their color and odd way of growing in concentric circles around the stem make them look extraterrestrial.
The classic recipe tasted good, but was a little too sweet. Nadine hit a homerun with a low-sugar orange and beautyberry mix. I decided I wanted a winter supply of that so Nadi and I cut a deal. She would make more of the orange kind for me, if I gathered enough berries to make it plus enough for her to do more recipe experiments with. I was able to pick, sort and cleaned beautyberries this morning and was still able to work for awhile in the w/c garden this afternoon. The pain amazingly is no worse than usual tonight. Don’t think I’ll push it tomorrow though. Will try for that level of activity every other day.
Kay just did general clean-up and maintenance today. The plan was Amargia would be closed this season so we could catch up on projects and let daily maintenance ride a little. There simply wasn’t time to do both and we are far enough off the beaten path that we can get away with it. A few weeds aren’t going to hurt anything in the long run, but we dare not let them go to seed.
No flowers yet from any of the fall-blooming bulbs, but the jasmine bush is blooming again.
Debra, what kind of Baptisia are you expecting? I noticed Kay has bookmarked info on co-ops. You do realize you are an enabler! Lol. She was impressed enough with the quality of the geraniums that she just placed an order with that company.
Aren’t you in the vicinity of Lackland AFB, Nada? I did my basic training there.
Have your DDs given you any breathing space yet, Carrie? I’ll take a lack of reply as a “no”. lol. (Jim)
Photo: Found yet another use for my industrial floor fan. De-chaffing beautyberries.


This message was edited Sep 7, 2010 11:18 PM