Not for the magazine spread, but underway nonetheless
;-)
Alex came up this weekend to help me transfer
documents from my dying laptop to Bob’s laptop – these are things I do not want
to lose if my computer absolutely refuses to boot up one of these days. While
he was here, I asked him to help me move the Coho bench my BIL carved with his
chain saw a few years ago; I paid a pretty penny for it, but it is worth every
cent. Moving it into the foyer will make it easier to place back on the porch
later on:
Coho bench brought inside - will be moved back out onto the front porch again when the porch is painted and dried.
I felt pretty accomplished even if I also felt
pretty old nursing my aching back afterwards. LOL
I used this rinsed fertilizer sprayer to water my seedlings with a misting spray so I didn’t dislodge the shallow rooted seeds. No fertilizer used this time, but eventually the starts will be fertilized with a weak fish emulsion.
Seedlings set atop the baker's rack under skylight in kitchen.
Seedlings set in front of LVRM window.
Watching all that free water falling from heaven and knowing I cannot set up my rain barrels yet to catch it had me groaning with the howling winds blowing in off the river.
Tonight on a FB gardening Page there was a heated argument about Miracle Grow of all things – 2 canadians were hysterically posting “it is
a toxic product” claiming, “right on
the outside of the bag it says Must Wear Gloves to Handle, or something along
those lines” & … which is ridiculous! There are NO SUCH WARNINGS!
Miracle Grow Potting Soil ... I took pictures of the bag from every conceivable angle: NO WARNINGS against handling with bare hands.
Nothing about needing to wear
gloves before handling the soil ...
The same with the fertilizer powder ...
Miracle Grow Plant Food ... NO WARNINGS against handling with bare hands.
The ONLY warning on either of the products
shown above, are warnings against letting a child swallow either the fertilizer
or the soil – and THAT warning is basically because deadhead {parents} do not
monitor their children without the government needing to needle them to do so.
There are NO scientific studies recorded on
the direct long-term or even on adverse reactions related to human consumption
of foods treated with/grown with Miracle Grow products. Nada. There are,
however, political leaning websites that say, “however, some of the key
ingredients in Miracle Grow have serious effects on the environment and
possibly on human health.” Hmmm.
“Serious effects on the environment” such as? Arsenic and
heavy metals leeching into the soil. Let’s break this line of insane
reasoning down: (1) possibilities based
on nothing more than eco-freak o.p.i.n.i.o.n.s. are NOT ‘facts’ (2) do eco-freaks not pay attention in
science class? Probably not – it is hard to be in class and at the same time
scream and shouting in an unimportant lame-brained protest somewhere equally unimportant.
FACTS: a normal unexposed human being has arsenic in their hair and nail –
arsenic is an organic element. Also, their ‘organic’ diet is rife with inorganic
arsenic via red meats, poultry, fish, shellfish, dairy products, grains, and cereals.
Fish and shellfish have the highest concentrations of arsenic; maybe these
hysterical political lemmings could lower their feared arsenic levels if they ditched
their ‘healthful organic’ diets and dined on Miracle Grow instead (3) Cadmium – a potent contender of other
heavy metals such as Copper, Lead, Iron, and Zinc are all naturally occurring elemental
minerals widely distributed in the earth’s crust. They cannot be escaped and being
poisoned by any of them doesn’t happen overnight: they must be ingested in significant
amounts over a consistent period of time. ALL FOODS NATURALLY CONTAIN a low
level of these elements – even organically grown foods: leafy vegetables,
grains, legumes, and kidney meat have the highest levels of cadmium – eating balanced
diet reduces the risk of toxicity. Unless one is gardening on a toxic waste
dump site, the risks of “being poisoned” by “toxic elements” in the soil is
seriously low (4) the ‘NO CHEMICALS!’
purists preach their version of the holy trinity by promoting leaf mold
(nitrogen), wood ash (potassium), and TOXIC bone meal (phosphorous) … which
pretty much legitimizes the usage of Miracle Grow, which is the SAME CHEMICAL
ELEMENTS they preach for AND preach against. A double minded person is unstable
in all their ways – avoid them and their propaganda agendas.
Bottom line is this … educate yourself.
Anything used to excess is toxic – including false information given out in
fake news pogroms with a particular political swagger.
As with everything, common sense should rule:
be reasonable with application and you will be fine :-D
