Does Anyone Like to Garden?

[crisipicada]

Red rose in my garden. I like it so much. Since been raining, flowers and plants are so nice and healthy.

[cheryz]

wow i love flowers especially rose , a week ago i planted a vine spinach (alugbati) in a pot now they're growing this is my 3rd time to plant this hope my dog wont eat it again

[crisipicada]

That is good to know you also plant vegetables. I have been sick since Sunday night. I work a lot at home. I use to do the household work during weekends. After the long working days, I also started to work Friday night. I try to budget my time to be able to finish work at home. Long before, I hire someone to be with my mother to assist her. To do the laundry, cleaning the house and to cook food for her or anything she wanted to tell her to do household chores. Unfortunately, my mother does not like to be with someone else because she said, she wont trust her. So, I used to go home before, however it affects my health coming to work and going home everyday and so stressful. I drain energy and that makes me sick.

So, after the long week work, Monday to Friday, I used to go home at least 3 times a week every weekdays because only my mother is at home and she is not feeling well, in fact her blood pressure last night was too high. I told her to rest and relax and try to enjoy life. However still stressful to go home.

So, on Friday night, I do the laundry at home, hang it over night and make sure it is dry Saturday afternoon. But due to rainy season it is hard to dry the clothes. Also Saturday, I used to clean the house all over. From washing the curtain to sofa cover, from cleaning windows with wet rags to mopping the floors, from washing rags and cleaning the surrounding by uprooting the grass and clean using stick broom to get rid of the leaves that fell, to cooking and iron the clothes of my mother and mine on Saturday night. It has been a routine. So, I feel it has been so hard for me lately. That is why I was sick last Sunday night. My body was so heavy and I can't sleep and when I lie down, I cannot move my body anymore, so was not able to go to work on Monday. Have my massage and try to rest for a while.

But I thank the Lord for everything. He is a great God, He sustains me. I do not complain when it comes to working at home because I enjoy it. But due to my eagerness to keep up the pace working to make things proper and clean, I realize that my health is being compromise. Maybe I just can't stop working when things are not organize. It is just me.

[angel]

hmmm.. so nice to see a garden. good for both of you able to have time to plant.

hey Sissy Crisi just friendly reminder be careful of your health just take some vitamins so you can able to sustain your healthy life . Hoping you would be better soon Good Luck and prayer for your mom.

[jadegil6]

I think you may need someone to help you to do all of that cleaning, crisipicada. Just a suggestion, because as angel stated, you need to take care of your health. Don't push yourself beyond your limits. As we age, we can't do the same things we once did, and we have to re-establish different limits and expectations.

I would love to have a big garden someday, one where I could grow lots and lots of vegetables to use to feed many. Another day and another big dream

[cheryz]

I made some vegetable soup and one of the ingredient spinach is right in my pottery plant. It's nice to have vegetables at your backyard you can save a little the soup is good especially fresh vegetables.

[cheryz]

My plants died maybe because I plant on a pot, now I'm little bit not interested in planting. Maybe for huge backyard.

[jadegil6]

There could be many reasons that a potted plant can die. There are many plant diseases as well as insects that can harm a plant. Also, if the drainage in the pot is not good, the plant can get root rot and die. I have lost many a plant...so try try again, cheryz.

[cheryz]

Yes sirjadegil6 try and try until you succeed like the sayings says , Maybe it's my third time to plant in a pot hmmm.. Maybe one day it will grow bigger and healthier.

[Smiley]

It is still too early to plant here but the weather is getting better. It looks like I will be here for another summer so I will get busy on a garden at work. Where I work we have a huge unused area behind the warehouse. The soil is not good so last year i built a small raised bed and filled it with worm castings,the results were amazing.Tomatoes,eggplant,peppers.sweet potatoes,and spinach. There was an overgrown fig tree which I cut back and fertilized with worm castings and wood ash.Last fall I trimmed it again and wrapped it to help it through the winter.It produced a hundred or so figs last year,hopefully it will continue to improve.
We were just offered a load of concrete blocks so I will build another raised bed much larger than the first one. I have also salvaged 2 large vehicle gates that are about 8 feet high and maybe 10 feet wide that will be for beans and cucumbers to climb on. This should be an interesting summer