What did you do in the garden today?

[ShrekDawg]

I’ve never had much luck with spinach. One year when I actually got to the harvesting stage in my 10 square foot space I was really excited but picking it all it only amounted to about 1 cup. I generally have better luck with chard, kale and romaine lettuce.

My kale got completely eaten up. Looks like Swiss cheese LOL but kept the bugs off the rest of the garden

 

[gtaus]

So you're saying the hip spontaneously fractured and gave way?

That is very scary.

Yes, that's what can happen. Having children is tough on your bone health, so lots of women have problems later in life.

My PT told me that 1 in 3(? Can remember, but it was a lot) women past menopause will break either their back, hip, or wrist. Of those choices... I'm glad I got the easy one, the wrist. He made it sound like you'd only do one, so I'm in the clear, right....? (Um... no.)

More likely that if you suffer a fracture, you are probably more likely to have other fractures because your bone health might not be optimal.

My knowledge comes from Nursing school and providing care to a few patients when I was doing clinicals in a hospital 15 years ago. If you have concerns about your bone health, it's best to talk to your doctor or other expert in that field. Medicine can be very specialized and information changes over time.

 

[gtaus]

That's exactly how I did my lettuce for years. I would start it as soon as the soil was workable (thawed). Throw the seeds down & make a small hoop & cover with plastic. Repeat the same in the fall. I've had lettuce into Jan that way. People around here will put a small set of Christmas lights under there for tiny bit of warmth too, I never tried it.

Good info. Thanks.

 

[Sally PB]

More likely that if you suffer a fracture, you are probably more likely to have other fractures because your bone health might not be optimal.

My knowledge comes from Nursing school and providing care to a few patients when I was doing clinicals in a hospital 15 years ago. If you have concerns about your bone health, it's best to talk to your doctor or other expert in that field. Medicine can be very specialized and information changes over time.

Yeah, my bone health is definitely on my radar now. It was then, but not to this extent. It's a topic at every checkup, and I get bone density scans as recommended (every 2 years...? I think?). What I went through with a broken wrist taught me that mobility is not to be taken for granted.

 

[gtaus]

My kale got completely eaten up. Looks like Swiss cheese LOL but kept the bugs off the rest of the garden

Last year I grew kale and got lots of it, until the end of summer/early fall when the deer found it. Then it was gone, like overnight.

The deer did not like my Swiss Chard, so I still had that to harvest and eat into the fall. Both plants were in the same raised bed. I don't know why they left the Swiss Chard alone.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Last year I grew kale and got lots of it, until the end of summer/early fall when the deer found it. Then it was gone, like overnight.

The deer did not like my Swiss Chard, so I still had that to harvest and eat into the fall. Both plants were in the same raised bed. I don't know why they left the Swiss Chard alone.

Oh wow that sucks!! Thankfully our yard is fenced so no deer. Just bunnies, a groundhog, squirrels, and chipmunks. And voles. And i think we have rats.

 

[gtaus]

Yeah, my bone health is definitely on my radar now. It was then, but not to this extent. It's a topic at every checkup, and I get bone density scans as recommended (every 2 years...? I think?). What I went through with a broken wrist taught me that mobility is not to be taken for granted.

Having children can be hard on a woman's body later in life. I think young women having children should be thinking about their bone health later in life and taking measures to ensure they have better bone health then our mothers and grandmothers. Maybe they do these days.

My mother fell down and broke her hip. She never got out of the wheelchair for the rest of her life. That was too sad. Absolutely, don't take your mobility for granted.

 

[jerryse]

I sowed grass seed and fertilizer. I have fish emulsion to apply around planted trees. I see Hoss seed videos a lot lately. Garden porn. I saw one on Algonquin squash that has me interested. C. pepo group. Said it is insect resistant but did not say which insects. SVB I hope. Winter squash with a long shape. Hmm perhaps it could be used as a summer squash I think.

 

[jerryse]

I did some cleanup of branches and roots. Put them in the campfire ring to burn. Cool day so a campfire will feel good. Tripped and fell while doing cleanup. I am ok just scuffed my elbow a bit.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I still have fish fertilizer love as do the plants.