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My chest is tight and i cough sporadically. The cough, the tightness is surely due to asthma.
I became incredibly exhausted after weeding on Sunday: i trust it's the asthma, there as well. It was very odd: the health sensor on my phone measures "stress", oxygen level, and pulse. My pulse rate was quite high, and my "stress" level pinned the top of the range. The oxygen levels were in the 95% and 96% area, which is apparently within normal. (Usually i am higher.)
Yesterday i gardened. For the first time, i don't have any area of the garden fallow. My father's heavy duty tomato cages are in place for Roma and "big beef", and another Roma is stuck in a wimpy cage the previous owners left. Four each of "Indigo" (F1) and "Bel Fiore" radicchio are in a number of places in the garden, some more shady than others. Whether these plants will fill out in a month or so or will struggle to survive until fall remains to be seen.
I planted out mouse melon aka Mexican gherkin, that was already blooming in the greenhouse. My memory of the plant the last time i grew it was of an incredibly vigorous plant that thumbed its nose at wee pressure (had it a nose or thumbs). The peas have not been vigorous where i planted them this spring, so i've planted one set of mouse melon to take over that arched segment of wire fencing, another in the corner with wire fencing staked upright.
I'm trying "strawberry spinach" (Blitum capitatum, Chenopodium capitatum) in the garden and the yard partly as a foodstuff, partly as a North American native herb that might compete with stilt grass. I don't know why i hadn't looked at the USDA Plants range map before: it's native to all the us EXCEPT the south east, which means it will probably melt over the summer. I've also a few plants of ground cherries: the ground cherries and the mouse melons will hopefully provide plenty of snacks.
And i've planted out four different purslane-like plants. Moss rose on my flower bed berm: will it be a beautiful flowering ground cover? Jewels of Opar in the garden, herb garden, and the flower bed berm: both flower and salad plant. Winter purslane or miner's lettuce: i won't be buying more seed for a long time as i don't think it will thrive in the clay and the heat (my sister with her happy garden soil had a volunteer this year). And green purslane: to see if it will take off.
I appreciated the shade of the tulip poplar moving across the garden as i worked. I think that several large trees had been cut down near it in the couple of years before we bought the house: i've had to deal with the stumps. Now that those are gone, i suspect this tree will be filling out. I hope the plot will continue to have sufficient sunlight. I eyed some young pine trees south east of the garden that should be removed and replaced with much shorter fruit trees.
It was 35°F when i woke with a dew point of 29°F. May?? The soil is warmed up, so the little plants' roots will be able to settle without heat stress. And it looks like rain will come with heat and humidity later in the week. Such a mild and warm winter, such an early spring, such a LONG spring. We're reveling in the mild weather.
I became incredibly exhausted after weeding on Sunday: i trust it's the asthma, there as well. It was very odd: the health sensor on my phone measures "stress", oxygen level, and pulse. My pulse rate was quite high, and my "stress" level pinned the top of the range. The oxygen levels were in the 95% and 96% area, which is apparently within normal. (Usually i am higher.)
Yesterday i gardened. For the first time, i don't have any area of the garden fallow. My father's heavy duty tomato cages are in place for Roma and "big beef", and another Roma is stuck in a wimpy cage the previous owners left. Four each of "Indigo" (F1) and "Bel Fiore" radicchio are in a number of places in the garden, some more shady than others. Whether these plants will fill out in a month or so or will struggle to survive until fall remains to be seen.
I planted out mouse melon aka Mexican gherkin, that was already blooming in the greenhouse. My memory of the plant the last time i grew it was of an incredibly vigorous plant that thumbed its nose at wee pressure (had it a nose or thumbs). The peas have not been vigorous where i planted them this spring, so i've planted one set of mouse melon to take over that arched segment of wire fencing, another in the corner with wire fencing staked upright.
I'm trying "strawberry spinach" (Blitum capitatum, Chenopodium capitatum) in the garden and the yard partly as a foodstuff, partly as a North American native herb that might compete with stilt grass. I don't know why i hadn't looked at the USDA Plants range map before: it's native to all the us EXCEPT the south east, which means it will probably melt over the summer. I've also a few plants of ground cherries: the ground cherries and the mouse melons will hopefully provide plenty of snacks.
And i've planted out four different purslane-like plants. Moss rose on my flower bed berm: will it be a beautiful flowering ground cover? Jewels of Opar in the garden, herb garden, and the flower bed berm: both flower and salad plant. Winter purslane or miner's lettuce: i won't be buying more seed for a long time as i don't think it will thrive in the clay and the heat (my sister with her happy garden soil had a volunteer this year). And green purslane: to see if it will take off.
I appreciated the shade of the tulip poplar moving across the garden as i worked. I think that several large trees had been cut down near it in the couple of years before we bought the house: i've had to deal with the stumps. Now that those are gone, i suspect this tree will be filling out. I hope the plot will continue to have sufficient sunlight. I eyed some young pine trees south east of the garden that should be removed and replaced with much shorter fruit trees.
It was 35°F when i woke with a dew point of 29°F. May?? The soil is warmed up, so the little plants' roots will be able to settle without heat stress. And it looks like rain will come with heat and humidity later in the week. Such a mild and warm winter, such an early spring, such a LONG spring. We're reveling in the mild weather.