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Starting Wednesday, I have a neck problem and that pretty much shuts me down for moving my neck. The C5 and 6 vertebrae have little to no cartilage left. A orthopedic doctor did an x-ray years ago and said sitting at a desk for so many years with my neck at that angle looking down to do work on the desk, caused that and that he had it, too, from looking down in the operating room for so many years. My neck occasionally gets disturbed, meaning I kept it at the wrong angle and I don’t know that I do that, until the pain starts. I have a neck cushion and a neck brace (if it gets worse) to use when this happens. I’m at the cushion stage, just use the cushion around the neck to help it not move. This problem is causing me not to be able to move my neck outside. I didn’t go outside at all on Wednesday as this problem gives me a headache and tends to screw up my balance. The row covers didn’t get taken off the plants Wednesday.

The new hose and nozzles have come but I can’t go out there under the roofed part and bend my neck to get it attached to the water spigot and toss out the old one. I don’t have to water as it has rained some the last several days and all day today and the humidity must be 100% out there when it isn’t raining because my glass doors are fogged up and that seldom happens.

I think my calling in life is to grow Tromboncino Squash. That plant grows inches at night and it is definitely over 5 feet tall and is at the end of the support built into that barrel. How do the tendrils on that plant find those plastic rods on the support and latch on to them? That is some kind of intelligence to find those rods and wrap around them. The other baby one I transplanted from under the grow lamp is over 6 inches now with more leaves, growing very fast. All the plants look great and growing, but no blooms on anything. I need stakes for the tomatoes that are falling over but I’m not driving the car to get them due to my neck – I can’t turn my neck to see what other cars are doing. And, if I had the stakes, I can’t move my neck to get the states in and the tomatoes attached. Maybe by Sunday the neck will be okay and I can get those stakes.

The dog has alerted me twice to a squirrel walking on top of the back wall, but he/she hasn’t come in that we know of, so the trap is still out there and set. There are six walking onions up. The sesame plant has more of the very small white bell flowers.

If I can actually get some food produced on these plants, I would know I can grow food – right now all I know is, I can sprout seed and plant plants and keep them alive.

Johnny, you said you have blooms on your Roma tomatoes, and I have no blooms on these eight Mortgage Lifter tomatoes. That is depressing – I need blooms.