This old girl learned a new trick yesterday. You know the Dog Kennel, aka, Leaf Corral that I put around 8 of my tomato plants. Well, we had a gully washer, and it also blew things around, and we discovered the Kennel was not going to be very supportive of the plants once they got big enough. It knocked all the cross-section pieces that were in place to tie the limbs up and broke off a stem of one of the tomatoes.
I had a brainstorm. Why not take the kennel and make it into 2 square cubes. That is what we did, so now there are 4 tomatoes in one cube and 5 in the other and the cubes are side by side. DH then put spikes outside each cube and tied them onto the bottoms of each cube to stabilize. I got more tomatoes out of the raised bed and added them to one of the cubes and then top dressed in compost. I took another tomato plant out of the RB and added it to the garden with its own trellis.
I had to move the 2 Schefflera plants to the back because they didn't seem to like the intensity of the sun out front. I am glad I noticed this before full-blown blue blazin' sun hits. I also discovered that the tomatoes planted beside the garage wall were showing signs of being very dry already. I think it's because that area does not get direct rainfall. It is between houses and the direction of rain does not go into that area. I will have to put more water bottles around the base of those plants to give adequate water to the roots.
Our PCP visit was yesterday morning and I have put on lbs and B/P was elevated. So was my cholesterol. We finally figured out that it must be due to my stopping walking, and I went off oatmeal for quite a while. So, I started back walking yesterday and will walk every day from now on if I'm able. I'm back on oatmeal for bkfst. I need to prevent weight gain and high B/P. She said it wasn't too bad, but to me it's unacceptable. I need to stay healthy. Having said that I will tell you that I overextended my left Rotator Cuff carrying those bags of rock. I am treating it gently and medicating. It will take a couple of wks before I will feel comfortable carrying rock again. I tried to use a rake, a leaf rake mind you last evening and my RC hurt so badly.
Gardening is taking a toll on me this year. At the end of the day, we do want to enjoy our gardens. Peace & Plenty.
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