For the last two night and it will be again tonight, I didn't cover all my plants like I have been doing. So far, nothing has eaten them in the night, and I didn't go out there today at all since I was gone all day and it was dark when I got home. I can only hope all the plants are still there tomorrow morning.
Yes, it is true, I have to watch each plant since I have so few of them of every kind.
I had a nice day at the architect's house today and his plants are in large fancy containers on his very large deck. There are three fig trees in pots and one of those is the 5 foot high one grown from one fig leaf and one grew from a stick he got from a fig tree. Whatever he plants, grows. I hate people like that.
He also has the A&M non hot Jalapeno plants but none of those are producing yet. One regular Jalapeno plant did have a red Jalapeno on it.
He has a nice place on the lake. Walk down a concrete path to his dock, sit in a chair, drop the hook and plastic worm in the water and jerk up a Bass fish.
He is in his 80s and you probably couldn't keep up with him. He was a bomber pilot in WWII and was in England two years flying out of there to bomb Germany. He wants to buy two airplanes and one helicopter and someone he knows is a helicopter pilot and that guy has agreed to teach this fellow to fly that helicopter when he gets it.
He has so many interests he stays busy every minute and still has construction jobs going on using his plans for these buildings.
Don't worry about being in the high 80s of age - just keep doing what you want. He is.
We did NOT get enough rain. I'm going to be hurting on rain water in a few days. I use only rain water for my seedlings/herb/salad garden.
/johnny
Best advice around, any age. It's what my grandfather and father did; and the younger folks express it as "keep on keeping on."
#1 Brother hit 80 nearly 3 years ago; #2 Brother hit 80 earlier this year: both, despite, and within the limits of, medical problems keep it active. #3 Brother & Sis are mid 70s; same thing.
Trailing in the mid 60s, so do I, though I still have a hard time reconciling what I need to do compared to what I get done, compared to the days I was carrying 2 or 3 sacks of cement at a time at work, then going out dancing: makes me feel lazy.
The only time we have trouble with critters at night, is when the grapes, persimmons, and corn is ripe. Then the coons and the possums come out and get their snacks of low hanging fruit and corn.