This is just the beginning of the wildflower season. Wife is going to collect seeds from all that she can for our wildflower garden, way out back by the next road. The Bluebonnets are blooming big at this time also.
Posted on 03/28/2014 12:39:07 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thanks. I did have software that would do that, it came with my printer years ago. The new and improved ver. 3.5 does not do captions on the photo.
Joe Pro Bono knows a lot about graphics and photos—maybe he can help you if he would be so kind.
Thank you!
Thanks.
I am totally incompetent when it comes to photos.
You need to do more than ice and pain killers for a sting. What sort of wasp was it? Did it leave a stinger behind? If so, it needs to be removed.
Vinegar or lemon juice can neutralized the venom. Wet tobacco can help or make a baking soda paste. Some people advise mixing the baking soda with vinegar and applying that.
It takes about 20 minutes for the vinegar to make it stop totally.
If you have that much pain from one sting, there is a distinct possiblility that you have developed an allergy to the venom, and may need to have an epi pen or something to take in case of future stings.
JMHO.
Yes I think it’s the same. I get the plant food spikes at Walmart, and they are about 2 1/2 inches tall, and not very big around.
I put more than one in the big containers. I tend to use the slow release granules more for the long term potted plants, and spread them out a bit on the soil.
I like the additional dyna gro feedings, because they have additional nutrients in addition to the NPK.
This is just the beginning of the wildflower season. Wife is going to collect seeds from all that she can for our wildflower garden, way out back by the next road. The Bluebonnets are blooming big at this time also.
I would not have been capable of making baking soda paste or wetting tobacco. I had nausea from the intense pain. If I had started having symptoms of anaphylactic shock, would have dialed 911 as I was not capable of driving.
I just think the wasp (and I didn't see it clearly as I was stunned by screaming pain and trying to fast figure out what happened), was able to unload all the venom it had into that finger. Really, it was so bad all I could think of was instant ice and don't faint. The nausea hit just before I got the ice on it and that feeling stayed until the pain level came down a bit. The thing is, I have a high level of pain endurance and this stripped that completely away and I was jelly.
I don't think the stinger is in there and if it is, it can't be seen. I really hope it will be much better in the morning. I hate this happened for I will never open a car door again until I look behind the handle.
I not very computer smart. Good luck.
I just worry because I have read that extreme pain like that from a wasp sting is an indicattion of allergy.
Anyway, sticking a finger in the vinegar or a container that has the vinegar in it maybe even ice in the vinegar for the cold?
Glad you aren’t in as much pain now.
Those flowers are beutiful.
indicattion = indication
Thanks.
She just stopped and picked them on the roadside. She does that pretty regular during springtime. Then her zennias come in and it’s on for the rest of the summer. She buys at least 5 or 6 different kinds of zennias to make nice cut flower arraignments for the table or her desk at work. She loves her flowers.
The rainshowers we were supposed to get today have been bumped back to the weekend. Grrr...
Perhaps I will finish my seed starting today, or maybe not. Had a rough night with the lower back, so may be a wasted day. I think I should get a head to toe MRI and fix everything at once.——Joking!
Johnny fixed my pictures for me last night, thanks Johnny. I need to print and mail them now. I am running a bit behind on that, but I told my friend that I would be slow getting back with him.
I did set the tobacco under the roof so the soil wouldn't get mushy if it rains. Hopefully, I can transplant tomorrow. I don't think I could do it using just one hand. The large containers don't have potting soil in them and doing that with just one hand would be difficult as well as transplanting itself would be difficult.
My three blackberry plants have bloom pods about to open. These were just sticks when I got them late last year. I covered them up with the rest of the plants when freezing weather was here. They started putting out leaves when there was a bit of warm weather, and now have these bloom pods. There is no way there will be a lot of them since the plants are smallish, but if I just get “some” blackberries, I will know they can make blackberries here. Texas A&M has recommended these particular blackberry plants for this area.
If I get as many strawberries as there are on those 35-40 plants, I am surely going to can some strawberries. Since I have never canned before, that will be an experience. I have to know how to can. I have all the info. I need to do it correctly and have all the items needed to do that. I may need another box of canning pint or half pint jars/lids as there really are a lot of strawberries growing.
The bad thing about these strawberries, is, that is an annual plant so they won't be here next year, would have to start over again. I read a lot about strawberries and there is no perennial strawberry plant (like wild strawberry plants) that will work in the south. If any of you in the south have wild strawberry plants that produce, I would like to know it.
After I transplanted them, and watered them, I bagged up three bags of leaves, and scalped part of the lawn. I swear in an hours time, those Tromboncinos looked like they grew a couple of inches. Amazing, and the leaves are so pretty.
I hope your finger gets to feeling better soon. I am lucky, bees, and yellowjackets seem to like me, and never sting me, even if I'm shooshing them, or getting them out of my hair. They seem to think that my hair is a good place to land, and walk around.
Benadryl should help too. Have you used a magnifying glass to make sure that there is no stinger? I hope it gets better soon.
I can blackberries, but do not like the consistency of canned strawberries. So I either freeze them or make strawberry syrup.
I run the berries through a juicer twice, and make the syrup and it is free of seeds. Then I take the pulp and mix with honey or sugar, and dehydrate it to make a fruit leather which the kids in particular like (the adults like it too).
Strawberries here are perennial. We replant a new batch approximately every 3 years. Could probably get by with 5 for the June bearers.
Well we eventually got our rain. It was 1 inch. The swimming pool set up was finished just in the neck of time so that one of the gutters feeds into the pool. We now have about 1100 gallons of water from that rain in the pool.
The rain has just now started up again, so we’ll see how much more we get. I don’t think that the potatoes will get water logged, that’s the advantage of Mel’s mix, it nearly impossible to overwater.
That’s nice. I like flowers too, but I don’t do annuals. Roses and lilies,Iiris, tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths. All take minimal work.
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