Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Okra Planted - May 5, 2026

Yesterday I struggled to get my mojo workin'.  The craft room offered no temptation whatsoever.  

Mid-morning, I said to myself, "Get up off your lazy ass and DO SOMETHING."  

I did some laundry.  Emptied the dishwasher. 

It was a beautiful day, so I walked down to the garden to check on the tomatoes and peppers.

Over a week ago, I mixed up a tonic recipe I'd seen on YouTube - one packet of yeast (activated with warm water and syrup), one tablespoon of baking soda, and a gallon of water - and poured it around the tomatoes and peppers.  I'd intended to do an experiment to test the validity of the tonic's claim by leaving half the plants "un-dosed," but I'd dosed them all, instead, hating to deprive half of the plants of a potential boost.  Thus, it's hard to say whether the tonic actually helped, but one of the tomato plants had a couple of tomatoes on it, several more were blooming, and nothing appeared to have suffered for the dosing.  

The baby rabbits were gone from the burrow.  

I turned around and walked back home and spent the afternoon going back and forth between the craft room and the laptop on the back porch.  Finally, around 4:00, I went back to the garden and planted a row of okra.

It's raining today.  Maybe it'll make those seeds pop right up.



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