What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

I'll get some gypsum and aspirin on the tomatoes

What does this do for tomatoes? I've never heard of it.

So sorry to hear about your thumb issues. There is a reason they call medicine an art as well as a science. Sounds like your doc won't be going to Carnegie Hall, for sure.

 

[WthrLady]

What does this do for tomatoes? I've never heard of it.

So sorry to hear about your thumb issues. There is a reason they call medicine an art as well as a science. Sounds like your doc won't be going to Carnegie Hall, for sure.

The aspirin mixed with water sets off the autoimmune response in the plants and sends them into overdrive to fight insects and disease. We are at a tough part of the season, so this gets my plants over the hump and keeps them looking good and producing though fall. I'll do this every three weeks now until the frost.

The gypsum is to help with Blossom End Rot, which the marriage san marz are, and have been, fighting all year.

 

[Sally PB]

The aspirin mixed with water sets off the autoimmune response in the plants and sends them into overdrive to fight insects and disease. We are at a tough part of the season, so this gets my plants over the hump and keeps them looking good and producing though fall. I'll do this every three weeks now until the frost.

How many aspirin in how much water? I'd like to try this!

 

[WthrLady]

How many aspirin in how much water? I'd like to try this!

Well it's supposed to be salicylic acid, but my great grandmother always used aspirin, non coated.
600ish mg per one cup of water. I use a mini blender and then that into a gallon of water sprayer.

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[gtaus]

Tylenol and steroid shots every 3 months until I can't stand it any more, then they'll cut it open and shave the bone.

Sorry you are living with such discomfort. FWIW, I'd take the shots and do the Tylenol as long as they are helpful. Hope things improve for you.

 

[Sueby]

@WthrLady - that stinks. It's frustrating that you must be your own advocate no matter what the well paid doctors say. Seems it's always a fight. I broke my ankle once & all they cared about at the er was that I had had a couple beers (I was 30!). They took xrays & saw nothing except where it said I split a pitcher of beer with 3 friends on my chart, a week later my PCP was shocked.

Yep, my chickens won't walk on snow either. I use bagged leaves because I have more than enough for both the compost and the chickens. My real goal is to make a small sized cattle panel hoop house for the winter to put over the portion of the chicken run by the pop door. Just big enough for the chickens to get outside and the hoop house would be enough to shed the snow.

I've been thinking of doing this myself! But I know I'll just go out & shovel & spread straw anyway.

 

[BullChick]

I found another decent sized pumpkin hiding in the garden. It’s orange enough that it should be ready with the other one. I might be covering fruits this year. I also have to stop letting all of the babies grow. I just saw several more that have formed in the last few days.

 

[WthrLady]

Dawned on me an hour ago he never said WHAT he was injecting, NOR did he ask me if I had had it before and had problem with whatever it was. Kind of important seeing as I have a list of reactions as long as your arm. But he didn't bother noticing the NSAID issue, so obviously not on his radar.

I get sick of doing other people's jobs.
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I need to take the hoe out and whack the tops off some weeds. I did a few while spraying the tomatoes, so maybe a couple more tomorrow when I put down the gypsum.

The heat and the humidity is creeping up making it a little icky out.

Something is starting to chew the beans. Hmmm.

OH and the pizza sauce. I simmered it all day again and took -12 pounds of tomatoes originally (MEAT tomatoes) and simmered them according to the directions and it was still too thing for canning yesterday, so I simmered them to what looked like pizza sauce and canned them. It was too water then. So today I simmered more and took those 7 pints and took them down to 7 HALF pints. Mrs. Wages is too sweet a pizza sauce, but it has to have high sugar content to bring up the acid as it is a BWB preservation (I'm pressure canning though). But I just wanted to try it.

 

[Elyrian1]

Too many times I go to the doctor, it seems they're just on autopilot. They grab something to fixate on, like a weird test result from six years ago that resolved on its own, and then won't pay attention to anything else. *facepalm* I don't know if they're just overworked, overtired, or just not paying attention. Half the reason I have a midwife instead of a regular doctor is because of this standard of behavior. But anyway...

We keep having drizzly rain days, or DH has watered for me, so I haven't had to do much the last couple of days. Quite nice really, and the weather has been tolerable with the exception of the humidity. Of course, rain = mosquitoes and I don't know where the nasty little bugs are coming from. Still hunting for their breeding ground.

 

[WthrLady]

Exactly!
Oh pesky mosquitoes. Darn them! They find the craziest places and tiny puddles.