Posted on 03/21/2014 12:44:59 PM PDT by greeneyes
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How is your back today?
I have tried everything and I cannot tighten those screws. Went into storage room and found small grip pliers and found the screwdriver bits that actually are for the battery screwdriver, I could not get the grip pliers to hold that nut still. There is so little of the nut to grip and not enough space for the pliers to be in the right place, it just doesn’t work. The small wrench that holds the nut is the best thing to use but I don’t have the strength to keep the wrench from turning in my hand - I would need two hands on that wrench to keep it from turning in my hand when the nut turns. It is a lock nut and when the screw finally gets in there it’s not going to loosen. I will continue to think of a way to do this.
I have put the station under the roofed deck where it is perfect for the space I have for it. Did not lay the top or shelf on it due to this is pine pollen season and everything out there has a layer of yellow on it and saw no point in laying those pieces onto the station and them get covered in yellow pollen. This pollen will keep this up for about two more weeks. If you just stood still out there in the open for a while, you would have a yellow layer all over you.
“How is your back today?”
I can’t do what I did yesterday with that station or I’d be in the same shape. The nerves are too tender to do that again for that long. I should have stopped before I did. I am walking and there have been times when I couldn’t.
I can’t sit on a hard surface for more than 15-30 min. as that crunches the bones together due to not enough cushion between the bones. If a sit on a hard surface for longer than that, I can’t walk the next day and it’s a pain pill every four hours. I carry a certain kind of cushion if I know I have to sit on a hard surface. I envy people who still have good lower backs. I use a recliner in my house to keep pressure off that place. How is your lower back?
Not good lately. I upset the arthritis in it recently, so it bothers me at night. It will improve after a while.
I feel like saying, “Someone stop me!” I'm not planting another seed for spring/summer - “maybe”. But what about the neat sweet multi-color pepper seeds that are in the mail? Okay, maybe one more cup of seeds and that's it - “maybe”.
I would like to see some pictures of your garden. I bet it is quite a sight with 100 plants all around.
Okay, it's Wednesday. I was going to toast your triumphant internet return with a Tom Collins, but I'm tired of waiting.
Hmm, do I have 100 plants? I haven’t counted. I’ll wait until the sun stays out long enough so these plants can grow some so they can be identified much easier.
I’ll have to count the pots since now you have me wondering how many are out there. :o)
I’m with you - where is Johnny? I’ll have some Amaretto over ice and we’ll wait for him, wait, wait, wait....
Thank you, greeneyes!
I’m OKw/carrots but have not been successful w/lettuce.
Only 2 germinated and both damped off. I went back to the nursery, but they were all out of the seeds. I guess that I'll have to be happy with habanero, jalapeno, thai, poblano, and banana pepper ;)
That would be interesting!
Plus, I sprinkled lettuce in a 3 ft. long container a few days later after the carrots and it isn't going to come up without sunshine, either.
Plus, the dwarf orange tree has blossoms open and I expect that needs sun for it to do it's thing. I've never had a fruit tree so I'll probably kill it. If I kill it, I'm going to a home for the mentally impaired. There is a woman in the garden section at Lowes who knows everything there is to know about plants. I need to go see her and ask her what to do with that orange tree. I didn't repot it when I got it and maybe I should have, I don't know.
When you know as little as I do, it's really, really, really, easy to screw up. I don't know jack about fruit trees and still don't know a lot of other “must know” info. about gardening. :o)
Of course you know when I go, I'll see something absolutely necessary to have. I know I will need more potting soil mix. That one big bag I have left won't be enough - I've already used three that big.
I see my post to you about pictures wasn’t clear as I didn’t mention pictures. What I meant was, I’ll let the plants grow more so they can be identified IN THE PICTURES I take.
Oh wow! you are really coming along! I know what you mean about pots! I need more of them too! ....either that or else get Darlin to help me build some raised beds... Well, I can dream, can’t I? It could happen!
I did obtain three large sacks of potting soil at the end of last season when they were on sale. Not sure if it will be enough.
I was tickled to find in a junk yard an old rusty metal strainer which fits into a bucket that fishermen use/ed for putting their catches into a bucket, then by lifting it out, the water drains off, and they are able to handle the fish easily. The size of the mesh is just right to act as a soil sieve for me to aerate the soil and get the rocks in the bottom of the pots out of the dirt before I amend the soil and place it back into the pots with the rocks again at the bottom.
It will be good seeing JRandomFreeper!
:-D Been wondering about you and your garden too! Good to see you!
I dont go into the garden section often. There are a couple of ladies that have been there a while, but cannot name them. I dont know of one that is knowledgeable. I pick up and leave when I am there. I spend my time in the store, tools, hardware, paint, and lumber.
For specific info, I call the county agent or Mrs. Henderson at the seed store, or even Maas nursery in Seabrook. That’s the three sources I turn to.
Sorry.
I thought one time you talked about that woman in garden section. My mistake. I’ll search her out the next time I go there. She helped me last year and those employees in garden section get her when they don’t know something.
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