Low Expectations

[JC]

Course she does, she's just too busy gardening to write any of it down


Right?

[fishwife]

@tdood, yes I am. Mostly just working around dysfunctional body parts and trying to ward off further decline. But I recently was diagnosed as hypothyroid (sort of, but then they thought maybe not, but then they thought maybe so...) and put on thyroid medication. So I'm hoping that will help and things will get to the point where I can actually make progress lifting.

[mgil]

I’ve had some thyroid type hormones be a bit off. Some of it was crappy sleep I think. I haven’t had it checked after I fixed my sleep issue to see if the levels have changed though, so my data means nothing.

[fishwife]

Course she does, she's just too busy gardening to write any of it down


Right?

Well, mostly it's boring and depressing to have to repeat this bullshit one-step-forward one-step-back bullshit. But also, gardening is legitimately exhausting when highly invasive weeds that need to have all their roots and bulbils and tubers and shit dug up are involved.

[tersh]

Well, mostly it's boring and depressing to have to repeat this bullshit one-step-forward one-step-back bullshit. But also, gardening is legitimately exhausting when highly invasive weeds that need to have all their roots and bulbils and tubers and shit dug up are involved.

Yes, which is why god invented herbicides. Not saying you SHOULD do that instead, given the context.
But for some plants it's foliar application or alllll the labor.

Also, the hypothyroid stuff can be a heck of a game changer.

[fishwife]

Yes, which is why god invented herbicides. Not saying you SHOULD do that instead, given the context.
But for some plants it's foliar application or alllll the labor.

Exactly. There are ways to apply herbicides correctly so that you don't end up ruining all of your or your neighbors' plants, it's true.

Unfortunately, I wanted to put squash and tomatoes in that bed and already had some peas in there, so herbicide was a no-go.

It's also true, though, that Ficaria verna is annoyingly good at surviving herbicide applications.

Hopefully, I can stay on top of it now. The issue was that I'd moved soil from an area where I did some landscaping, and it was probably FULL of bulbils. But because that happened when the F. verna was dormant, it didn't occur to me that I might be giving myself this much future grief.

I hate very few plants, but this is one that brings on the gardening version of the Red Mist (TM) for me.

[mgil]

Red Mist???

Do you wear a heart rate monitor while gardening?

[tersh]

Yes, which is why god invented herbicides. Not saying you SHOULD do that instead, given the context.
But for some plants it's foliar application or alllll the labor.

Exactly. There are ways to apply herbicides correctly so that you don't end up ruining all of your or your neighbors' plants, it's true.

Unfortunately, I wanted to put squash and tomatoes in that bed and already had some peas in there, so herbicide was a no-go.

It's also true, though, that Ficaria verna is annoyingly good at surviving herbicide applications.

Hopefully, I can stay on top of it now. The issue was that I'd moved soil from an area where I did some landscaping, and it was probably FULL of bulbils. But because that happened when the F. verna was dormant, it didn't occur to me that I might be giving myself this much future grief.

I hate very few plants, but this is one that brings on the gardening version of the Red Mist (TM) for me.

Ah, invasive weeds. A gift that keeps on giving.

[JC]

Red Mist???

Do you wear a heart rate monitor while gardening?

*Pictures the application of blunt force trauma as a herbicide*

[fishwife]

Red Mist???

Do you wear a heart rate monitor while gardening?

*Pictures the application of blunt force trauma as a herbicide*

I tousle the weeds until they die from contact with my qi.