[Homestead] Anti-Doctor

Leslie cayadopi at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 9 13:31:11 EST 2008


This is a big watermelon area.  They have some kind of underground watering system in the field closest to me.  Not sure about the other fields, must I sure don't see the flood system in the melon fields, so they must do something similar.  
 
I hadn't read that other melons have to be tied up.... haven't gotten that far in my how to reading yet... LOL.  I did decide that the melon patch is in the sunniest location.  Not much natural shade here though.  Panty hose seems reasonable to me!  or even old t-shirts cut up?
 


--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Bunjov at aol.com <Bunjov at aol.com> wrote:

From: Bunjov at aol.com <Bunjov at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Anti-Doctor
To: cayadopi at yahoo.com
Cc: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 1:22 PM

Well, maybe I can be of some little help.
 
My best friend, 3.3 miles away - also on 5 acres of my same sort of  
sand-and-stuff - keeps a garden where she's had, every year, good results
with  
tomatoes, and peppers, and some little luck with melons. This last year was her
 
first attempt at the melons, but they seemed to be 'under-developed'
(don't  know 
how else to describe it). Kinda like Dolly Parton on a slow day.
 
She had the tomatoes and peppers on a slow-drip kind of arrangement, and  
moved the hose every day - and that worked out fine - but we thought  perhaps
the 
melons (lying on the ground) were getting drowned. 
 
She didn't want to tie them up to the chain link fence enclosure, for fear 

of squeezing the stems too tight, so I suggested (no laughing allowed) that she

 buy a couple of the little containers of 25-cent anklet pantyhose from the 
local  Wallyworld, and truss them up to the fence. I think this would have 
worked, but  we got to them too late. 
 
All this train of thought reminds me of James' posts a year or so ago where
 
he sent such lovely photos of his hops vines...maybe you can look them up in 
the  archives. I don't know whatever I'd use them for, but they sure
were  
purty!
 
I also think, because of the way the garden enclosure is situated, that  
where she had the melons planted needed more direct sun...in the afternoon. As 
it 
was, there was a huge stand of oleanders blocking the light from noon on. I  
think this would have made all the difference.
 
She lost her husband a couple of years ago - I've been trying to keep her  
busy with paying attention to the property that he and she built together - 35 

years ago - there are probably 25 (or so) lovely pine trees that were planted  
every year after Christmas - they were heavy into the 'green' thing.
Spent 
their  honeymoon traveling the Alcan Highway in one of the first of the 
Volkswagon  busses.
 
I think we are Zone 9a.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/9/2008 9:50:07 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
cayadopi at yahoo.com writes:

Thanks,  I was hoping you were doing some desert condition gardening.  I can 
read  all the desert gardening manuals out there, but there is nothing  like 
hearing it from someone who is doing it.  My immediate neighbor east  of me, 
gardens, but not at the homestead level.  There is a neighbor  about 2 miles 
north who has a much more substanital garden and now that I see  her plants are

all pulled up, it's time to go pay a visit and find out what  she has had 
success with here.  I really would like peas...... but not  sure I'll have
the 
right growing season, even if I try for a late fall  harvest.



--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Bunjov at aol.com  <Bunjov at aol.com> wrote:

From: Bunjov at aol.com  <Bunjov at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Anti-Doctor
To:  cayadopi at yahoo.com
Cc: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday,  December 9, 2008, 12:28 PM

Oh, how I wish I could be of some help to  you! 

Unfortunately, I am merely a semi-professional lurker on this  awesome  list.

I do live in the desert - 20 miles east of Barstow,  CA - midway between the  
15 and the 40 (speaking of that - Gene -  where is Don these days?). My own  
personal piece of dirt (5 acres of  sand and scrub brush is less than a mile 
up 

the road - I can see it  from here, where I am renting a 'mountain cabin in
the 
desert') - but  the plans I had for it (1987) were quashed when I had to 
leave  work  and go on disability. My 'significant other' is 82 now,
and
I sent  
him,  back in '05, to care for his - now 106 - mother in the San  Francisco
Bay 
area.  We see each other 2-3 times a year, if we're  lucky.

I am closely following your progress because it is the 'new'  people,
like  
you, who - along with these very knowledgeable list  denizens - who  give hope
to 
those of us who have resigned  ourselves to living life from  the sidelines.

I admire your spunk  and your enthusiasm! Don't ever give up fighting the  
good  fight!

Sandy
Mid-Mojave


In a message dated 12/9/2008  8:51:46 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
cayadopi at yahoo.com  writes:

Sandy,  are you farming in desert  conditions?




--- On  Tue, 12/9/08, Bunjov at aol.com  <Bunjov at aol.com> wrote:

From:  Bunjov at aol.com  <Bunjov at aol.com>
Subject: [Homestead]  Anti-Doctor
To:  homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9,  2008, 11:34  AM

>I realize that I'm just being nosey and obnoxious at  this  point,  
and
you 
>can just tell me to f-off, but why   do doctors and check-ups  influence
your

>decisions?  I'm  anti-doctor, and believe that we each know  our health
and  
our  
>bodies better than they do. 

The list has been so  bizzy, bizzy  the last several days! As usual, I've 
just 
been  hangin' back and  absorbing 'stuff'...

But I can't let the  'anti-doctor' comment pass by.  So glad to
meet

another!

I  can't begin to recount how many times  I've been  prescribed
conflicting  
medications...by the same  physician  - sitting right there in front of me,  
consulting his  dog-eared  edition of the PDR...

Last time around, it took them four  days -  in a hospital bed - and 7  
(seven!) drugs to finally figure  out  that my gall bladder and I need to 
part 
company.

Pleeze!   

Two of those prescriptions, in conjunction, are 'known to cause early  
onset

dementia'. Maybe I wrote this before? Sometimes memory does  not  serve
(the


result, no doubt, of listening to too many  doctors)   <g>

Sandy
Mid-Mojave


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