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gardenbug8's July 2008 Entries
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Jul 29, 2008 | 8:56 AM PST
Tag: WARNING
I am so disgusted. I RECEIVED AN EMAIL AND UNFORTUNATELY submitted this form for a drug discount thinking it is a good deal as it is free to sign up and you get a card right away by printing the card. It says it can be used and activated immediately so I submitted my name and email address. As soon as that was done, guess what I had been receiving by the hundreds in my email. It is from emails I never know and all of them have good sounding first and last name but the message is all for viagra or cialis, etc. It s disgusting. My mail box gets lots and lots of them now it takes me 20 minutes to bounce them and block them. So think hard before filling out forms and submitting your email address for freedrugcard.
ANYWAY, HAPPY GARDENING TO ALL.
Jul 28, 2008 | 9:51 AM PST
Tag: Prayer Request
I have a prayer request to all my gardening friends. My niece, Cecile who lives in South Carolina, finally got pregnant for her first baby at 40 years of age after so many years of trying. However, doctors found a fibroid in her uterus which is growing and is now the size of a walnut. Either this is a blessing in disguise that she got pregnant, otherwise, the fibroid may not be discovered. Doctors are still deciding what is best to do and her appointment is this week. Please pray for her and her mother, Rosie, who is now flying to there to be with her daughter. Rosie lives here in California near Redding and she is Anna's twin sister, my sister who passed away in March 2008. Rosie is besides herself and we just cannot afford to lose another one while our wounds are still raw from Anna's pasing.
This is just a request and thanks to those who will offer a prayer or two for my niece. (To those who do not believe in the power of prayer, my apologies.) This may not be the right forum for this request but we are need all the help we can get.
Jul 22, 2008 | 12:17 PM PST
Tags: corns , beans , squash
Harvested some corn and boy, they are good and sweet but I don't think I will ever plant corns again as they are really cheap here in California, sometimes 4 for a dollar but now it is 35 cents each. The silver queen hybrid corns I bought from Park's and planted last spring were so tall that the leaves bent over to my neighbor. I swear it is more than 10 ft. Looking as we drive on the highways here, the corns do not appear to me that tall, thought they were only 5 feet tall. I can live with that but 10 ft. Forget it, I will just buy them. Beans and squash did not do good either so the 3 sisters planting of corn, beans and squash, is no more for next year. At least I have a good harvest of tomatoes and the cilantro and eggplant is on its way too.
Happy gardening to all. I read almost all the blogs but haven't much time to respond because my internet service is having a problem. I lose connection just as I am ready to submit my response and I get so tired of trying. Don't know if this blog will post.
Happy gardening to all.
Jul 14, 2008 | 12:43 PM PST
Tag: Clemats
The strong wind damaged my clematis last month. I thought that it is dead when this clematis with one bloom still showing wilted and died. All the stems turned brown so no sign of life whatsoever so I just pruned it all the way down to the ground hoping I can plant another before I dug out the whole dead plant. Good thing that it was so hot and no clematis nursery will ship during this time so I said I will just wait for my order next fall and plant it in this planter. Lo and behold, three weeks later, a small green leaf sprouted and today it is tall and healthy. Thank goodness it was hot so the planter stayed undisturbed and here comes Clematis Rhapsody ready bloom again next spring.
Clematis Blue Light and Lasurstern are still blooming even with the intense heat we are having this year.
Jul 9, 2008 | 9:14 AM PST
Tag: hibiscus
I shouldn't have opened my email today because it brought a very sad news. My niece Rosan, Anna's eldest child, sent an emai that her Auntie Marie was sent to the hospital for passing out after visiting my sister Anna's grave last Sunday. Anna was burried with my parents and Marie was so depressed and cried out like crazy when they visited Anna. Marie took care of Anna 24/7 when she was ill and dying and she took the brunt of all the hard work being an RN hersef. She was crying and saying that maybe she did not took care of her enough so Anna died while here in California she took care of a lot of sick patients. She now works as a volunteer to care for cancer patients and one time she emailed me that just seeing the patients say thank you to her and seeing their smiles was more than enough payment for her work. But now, we are guessing that some of her cancer patients are living longer than Anna did so she feels so inadequate that she let Anna die. We cannot tell her enough that it is God's will that He took Anna and now, even when the doctors tell her that she needs to rest and take care of herself, she continues to travel by bus and visits cancer patients. I told her that maybe she is doing what she is doing to make-up for what sh did not accomplish with Anna. I cannot afford to lose another sister and at the rate she is going, I pray that she would come back here in California and rest and take care of herself. Marie is younger than me but sometimes, she won't listen to me and she does what she wants to do. The travel and caring of other cancer patients I'm sure is taking a toll on her. I feel so helpless because she is so far away from me and with my any emails, she seldom responds because she says she is always busy. What else can we do? We just pray and pray for her and only God knows what is next for her and us. (Sorry for this long blog, just have to get it out of my system because this is one of my bad day.) Anyways, happy gardening to all. I planted a red hibiscus for Anna and she used to come out of her sick room just to look at the beautiful blossom. The african violets, her favorites, that I bought and took care of in her honor, and I don't know what I did that it dried out and died. Now, I am taking care of my blue hibiscus and thinking of it and taking care of it as if it is my sister, Anna. I don't know how long this grieving process will end and only God can sustain us all, and my garden too.
Jul 8, 2008 | 10:30 AM PST
Tags: bearded iris , Succulent
Over this long weekend, my two sisters and nephew visited and for such a long time since the death of my younger sister, Anna, we really had a good time, some few laughs and all together a nice July 4th weekend. Last Friday, I pruned some of my succulents (jade, sedum, purpura, hens and chickens, etc.), 23 in all and saved it for planting today. Today, beginning at 5 a.m. I cleaned out and dug all the bearded Irises on the south fence. Altogether, I think 9 clumps of overgrown Irises. Good thing they were not planted deep so with a little help of a shovel, I was able to dig them all out. I have grown tired of cleaning the dead leaves after all the blooms are gone, as beautiful as they are, my back can no longer afford the hard work of cleaning them out so after a few more cleaning out, roots and all, I planted all 23 of the succulents. This way, it will be a no brainer as far as watering and weeding are concerned. At least I saved and planted more than a dozen of the rhizomes into a very large planter, this way, cleaning would be easy. I still left the vinca minor as ground cover but still the south fence will look clean from now on, hopefully.
