Ouch! and gardening
I was filling up the green can with the last of chopped down bush again and something small bit or stung me on the wrist. It's driving me nuts with itching and burning. It feels like a spider bite, but I scratched off what appeared to be a tiny stinger. I wonder what it was that spends times in a dried out dead bush? Very unpleasant!
What's your favorite pesto recipe? I have a lot of basil harvested, and some green beans.
I'm just keeping up with the little yellow cherry tomatoes (sun sugar) which are delicious. They will be getting ahead of me very soon now, and the larger tomatoes are filling in rapidly. It will be sauce time very soon. I also have some little yellow banana peppers ready (I think-- how do you tell when a pepper is ripe?)
Oh, and the corn: it looks like my manual pollination worked on many of the stalks. I can see fat little ears forming! Not many, because I don't have a lot of stalks in my tiny garden, but they look right.
Sadly, I have not been able to open up the larger space to plant new corn. The bushes are cut out, and I tried digging with very little success, the damaged nerves in my legs and back are not cooperating. It's strange how little consistency there is in what I can and cannot do with my legs. I am walking very well (considering where I was a year ago), but pushing a shovel just seems beyond me still. I tried to hire it done, but my handiman has not been available because he's hurt his back too. I guess even the young and sturdy are not immune!
Hmmm, I'm just thinking, maybe I'll just try poking some corn-seeds into the ground out there and see if a little water will make them grow without properly turning the soil. It could.... I have a lot of trees and bushes coming up all over the place that I never planted!
What's your favorite pesto recipe? I have a lot of basil harvested, and some green beans.
I'm just keeping up with the little yellow cherry tomatoes (sun sugar) which are delicious. They will be getting ahead of me very soon now, and the larger tomatoes are filling in rapidly. It will be sauce time very soon. I also have some little yellow banana peppers ready (I think-- how do you tell when a pepper is ripe?)
Oh, and the corn: it looks like my manual pollination worked on many of the stalks. I can see fat little ears forming! Not many, because I don't have a lot of stalks in my tiny garden, but they look right.
Sadly, I have not been able to open up the larger space to plant new corn. The bushes are cut out, and I tried digging with very little success, the damaged nerves in my legs and back are not cooperating. It's strange how little consistency there is in what I can and cannot do with my legs. I am walking very well (considering where I was a year ago), but pushing a shovel just seems beyond me still. I tried to hire it done, but my handiman has not been available because he's hurt his back too. I guess even the young and sturdy are not immune!
Hmmm, I'm just thinking, maybe I'll just try poking some corn-seeds into the ground out there and see if a little water will make them grow without properly turning the soil. It could.... I have a lot of trees and bushes coming up all over the place that I never planted!