Accessible Gardening: Practical Matters for Physically Challenged Gardeners #15, 1 by Amargia

Amargia wrote:
Yum, now I’m REALLY hungry. Kay rose before I did and ate the leftover eggplant Parmesan for breakfast. That was what I planned to do. I guess great minds think alike. Lucky for her we have more eggplant and I'm is in a cooking mood. It was 48° this morning. Time to dust off the slow cooker.

I heard a funny one yesterday that was new to me. Question: What is the difference between a pigeon and a small farmer. Answer: The pigeon has no trouble making a deposit on a John Deer tractor .

I would have kissed my VA doctor if I wasn’t so scared of her. When she saw all the test I was scheduled for, she went through my recent records and pulled the results for test the VA had already done saving me some money. One more test to go, but it is looking like nothing more serious than a simple infection. I wish the the doctor would just wait and see if the anti-biotic clears things up because this last test is an uncomfortable one, but that just isn’t the way doctors work. Gr-r-r.

In the name of keeping a written record of what is where in the gardens, I decided to count all our containers this morning. I thought there might be as many as 50. Not counting things like my porch rail planters and the “sedum snake” (a retaining wall made of concrete blocks with the cells of the blocks planted.) the total was 145 with more on the work and potting benches to be repainted or re-filled with soil. Sheesh! Kay says we only need about 15 or 20 more. ROFL.



Photos #1 and #2: I didn’t count this one as a container, but I like it. Wrought iron patio sets are pretty, but not very comfortable. A few years ago, Kay put a child’s swimming pool atop a wrought iron table and filled it with soil for planting, but the weight of the soil after an especially heavy rain was too much for one of the table legs. She cut off the table legs with a hack saw and made this. The tomatoes are simple to harvest. I think I will plant snow peas after frost does in the tomatoes.

Photo #3: This is one of Kay’s favorite weeds..um-hum…I mean native plant. It isn’t much to look at when it goes to flower, but the smell is incredible. Very sophisticated scent for something with the common name dog fennel.

This message was edited Oct 20, 2012 12:28 PM