Hello Everyone. It is so nice to hear from you all.
Hi Zoe, Yes, the differences are so dramatic here between full sun, dappled sun and bright shade and full shade. It has been fun to find the sweet spots for all of the plants. Except when I forget to take into account how far up and down the sun moves between late spring and late summer and fall. I hope Mother Nature is grading me on a curve!
And Jim, I definitely take after you.... except that I tend to wear my clothes into rags. I'm still wearing them in the garden long after I decide that I can't wear these out in public any more. But I haven't made the birds blush yet, so no harm, no fowl. And there are a million and one uses for them once they hit the rag bag, for painting and staining and changing the oil in the truck is just the beginning. And I can only imagine the look on my face when I was working in a hardware store years ago and for the first time I saw someone BUY a box of RAGS! Jimminy Crickets!
Hi Tiffany, I appreciate you. I wear t-shirts every day but like my sheets they all seem to have some polyester in them. And they work great for strainers. I'm always trying concoctions out of garlic or peppers or cilantro with water to repel the bugs and they're perfect to strain through them before I pour it in my sprayer. My jeans are cotton but there are so many uses for old jeans. I make leggings out of them and wear them over my pants and shoes when I am weedwhacking. It's so helpful when I have to whack damp weeds or the ones all covered in burrs! And when I'm planting in ugly, black pots I always wrap a leg around it. It keeps the roots cool and looks much prettier when tied with a bow. And my lightweight, portable scarecrows would be bare-arsed without them.
I've never grown cotton, only worn it. And my socks were tough! They take a pounding when I wear them. And they hold up through heat and sweat and I would have believed that some of the smells alone could cause them to disintegrate but they don't. They were the definition of tough! I thought they would eventually decompose but not to disappear almost completely in just 8 weeks! I learn something new every day. Happy gardening everyone.
