The Old Folks Home

[lovesfarms]

The only thing I can add to that Al is to go to a big city hospital and have it done. My birthplace in central IL wasn't all that small of a city but the hospital there put me through a years worth of stress every time I went for my annual exam. I can't begin to tell you what it does to a woman to hear them say something looks suspicious and then they start to mark on your boobs with permanent marking pen with arrows and lines and tell you to come back tomorrow for more images/sonograms/etc.

They did that to me on a Thursday, had me come back on a Friday and the following Monday was a holiday but call your doctor next Wednesday.....I looked at the tech and asked him if he was married. He said yes. I asked him if he had a daughter...he had two. I asked him to put them in my place and would he want them to go that long not knowing whether or not they had breast cancer?

He told me no and then said, "you're fine. It's just a cyst, you didn't hear it from me, now have a nice holiday."

I could have hugged the guy.

I'm glad you spoke up, that would have been a terribly long week end!

 

[Beer can]

I grow curled blue vates kale every yr. And swiss chard and beets.
Decided to try some new so baker creek order of a couple varieties of Indian corn, flat dutch cabbage, salsify (something new to me never had it) and a couple new kales, Russian red and Thousand head. What does baker creek send me for free seed? Nero di Toscana cabbage/kale/dinosaur.
Yeah I need more greens. Planted half the pack anyway.

 

[Peep_Show]

Kale is a good one!
Baker Creek sent me in several orders multiple packets of kohlrabi (really, a lifetime supply)
and a packet of white tomatoes (blech)

 

[bruceha2000]

What I planted getting big now so chickens getting a lot of collards from last yrs plants.

I gather that collards are perennial?

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Blue lake is our go to bean. Yours are prob just stunted , might still grow good. Too much rain? Potting soil no good? Did you use inoculant bacteria? I always do for the beans and peas, and they do great.

I dont use potting soil, I have a cow, sand, compost mix we have delivered due to we live on an sand peninsula, then I mix in my aged over winter chicken poop, kitchen veg, egg shell, leaf &forest compost, Down To Earth bone meal, rock phosphorous, dolomite lime and the Vegetable Garden 4-4-4 , I hand mix it all up and fill the beds. I've done this for 10 years, everything's has gone great until now--- green beans

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Coffees done, Bob the Rooster is crowing for me to come let him out of the coop, the day is rolling folks--make it a productive one, chat with ya at 3pm,,

 

[Sally PB]

it was so much easier and less painful.

I refer to my mammograms as "boobie squishings." I even say that when I call to make the appointment, and the person on the other end always knows what I mean.

 

[sourland]

Good morning.

I gather that collards are perennial?

I didn't know that - learned something today.

 

[Beer can]

I gather that collards are perennial?

They grow flowers second yr and go to seed, same with kale. Just as edible though and keep growing. Few yrs ago I just let them grow, had new and old both seeded themselves. I plant new also but the second yr stuff I can start picking off from early spring when nothing else growing in garden.
I just rototill around them.

 

[Beer can]

Kale is a good one!
Baker Creek sent me in several orders multiple packets of kohlrabi (really, a lifetime supply)
and a packet of white tomatoes (blech)

Ordered from them two yrs ago and got purple carrots free.
I've never tried kohlrabi either, have to give it a try next yr.