PAgirl63's blog: Stomach Issues, Stress, Growing Plants Indoors, and Outdoor Winter/Spring Sowing

From the headline you can tell I have a lot of stuff to talk about.

1. STOMACH ISSUES and STRESS are great buddies! Always had stomach issues. Runs in the family. Lately, just feeling like crap. Went to see my regular GP about my tummy today and got an appointment June 23rd with a NEW Gastro Doctor ... first available one they had. Geesh! Haven't been too happy with my current Gastro doc, so I had decided to try someone new. Personally, besides genetic factors, I believe a new part of my current problems are stress related. My hubby has been running for months in a long marathon of what's wrong now?!! Prostate problems, medical procedures, an Angio-plasty, and a nose bleed requiring cauterization. Presently, he has no new issues. I just need need a MONTH on a tropical island somewhere ....

Started seeds INDOORS ... about a month ago now. My babies (plants that is) are growing! Got Morning Glories and Moonflowers coming along nicely. Towards the middle of of May I'll move them outside in plastic totes to start the hardening off process. I find that to be a real PAIN. For a good week to 10 days ... Keep them under the plastic cover ... vent the cover ... remove the cover ... put the cover back on ... put them in the shade ... put them in the sun. The worst thing is the threat of a damaging LATE FROST. If that should happen, I put the cover on PLUS ... put a BLANKET OVER THE WHOLE SHABANG! Then hope they do OK. What's a girl gonna do ....?

OUTDOOR WINTER/SPRING SOWING. I planted some seeds OUTSIDE. I used 2 methods.

1. just scatter some seeds in large flowerpots outside. No covers. Just let Nature do her thing ... rain, sun, wind, whatever. If they grow, good. If they don't, OK. I've planted poppy and foxglove seeds this way and they have done all right in the past. The poppies will just need to be thinned out later, leaving just a few to flower in the pots. The foxgloves will be thinned out as they get larger, and later transplanted into a garden bed to bloom NEXT year. Right now I have TINY little foxglove seedlings popping up!

2. Method #2 If you have ever done WINTER SOWING, it's the same thing ... Only it's done in the Spring. Just have to watch and make sure the containers don't dry out.

Well, that's what's been happening in my neck of the woods.

Happy gardening and as usual ... some pics to you to love or hate !

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