Mornin' all ~~~~~ Have you ever heard the following quote by an unknown author? "Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them." This quote sometimes fits me to a tee. Also this unknown author one is typical me too: "Lord, be merciful, shut me up when my life speaks so much louder than my words."
Just another day in the life of this Midwestern Chickie. Hot and humid is the game here....Hot Chickie is the name.
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Grammie was quite a gardener and wow could she grow the biggest and prettiest African Violets. Her church ladies were so jealous when they would come to the house for a get together. Of course she taught me some of her garden tactics but my thumb still isn't as green as hers. Grammie always said to never water African violets with cold water, and always use lukewarm water and don't overwater the plants. Also these bloom best when they are root bound so make sure your pot isn't too big.
Here are some things she taught me for all round gardening......
~~~~~ Plant white and purple turnips in the Midwest on July 25 every year for the best turnips.
~~~~~ The best time to plant parsley is on Good Friday in the Midwest.
~~~~~ Fish water is the best for fruit trees. So when you clean fish, pour the water around your fruit trees.
~~~~~ When your gardening scissors or any scissors get dull, sharpen them by opening and drawing backward and forward on a piece of glass. Scissors which you thought were destined to the rubbish, will get sharpened using this.
~~~~~ Ground elder.....horrible stuff. Plant Mexican Marigold near this to help control ground elder.
~~~~~ To keep rabbits away from your tender plants, plant a row of onions, chives or garlic as the rabbits will not cross these rows of onions, chives or garlic....but don't plant these near peas and beans as these plants don't like onions, chives and garlic near them.
~~~~~ If you boil the leaves of wild garlic you can use the water from this as a spray to repel insects and aphids, to prevent tomato blight, bean rust and mildew in cucumbers.
And here's an old country rhyme you might have heard:
"Cut thistles in May, they grow in a day;
Cut them in June and that is too soon.
Cut them in July and then they die."
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Today is me day. I think I posted this before but oh well. This is a picture of me on Santa's lap when I was 2.5 years old. I still have the coat and am posting a current day picture of the coat. I wore the coat, my cousin wore it, my younger sister wore it and both my girls wore it. And it is in amazing shape.....5o+ years later.
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