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| Basil, lemon and regular thyme, curly and flat parsley, yellow cherry tomatoes. Yum! |
My two square-foot gardens debuted this year with herbs and veggies. They're about two-feet high, three- wide-by-eight feet long and built with cedar posts and chicken wire on the bottom that I'm hoping to keep the moles from coming up and dining on the roots.
I used discarded mini-blinds to make my squares and just cut them to length and hammered them into the cedar posts with nails.
I used about a bag of compost added to the top soil in each garden, but that's all the soil amendments I did for this year.
And now I have several kinds of garlic I'm about to harvest, red and yellow cherry tomatoes, Cherokee Purple heirloom tomatoes and Beefeater tomatoes. Plus there's lemon basil, radishes (although they're almost gone,) chives, marigolds, several kinds of lettuce still, arugula, rainbow Swiss chard, quinoa, red okra, celosia and marigolds for color, and other stuff I've forgotten.
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| Radishes -- adds punch to salads or a fun side dish sauteéd. |
As far as my weight loss goes, I'm just stuck, stuck, stuck between 207 and 210 -- 66 pounds off. When hubby goes back out-of-country for work tomorrow, I'm going to clamp down and see if I can't get to Onederland in the next couple of weeks (getting below 200.) No glasses of vino. No giving into a cracker craving occasionally. I've gone to too much trouble not to continue to get and keep the weight off.
I'm still losing hair, but that's slowing down thankfully. I've always had quite a thick mane so it hasn't been noticeable. From everything I've read, it's just the body adjusting to lower calorie intake -- not a big deal and it stops and grows back after awhile.
Onward,
Carol
You know you're living a much healthier life, even if you don't lose another pound! Congrats on the 66 pound weight loss - amazing! Hang in there - move a little more, and I'll betcha that weight starts coming off. Just moving is so helpful - I know! I got a knee replacement, and without any liquor (couldn't because of pain meds) and simple movement, I was able to lose 30 pounds without even thinking about it! One thing I did do was eat about four or five times a day - small, protein filled meals. Right now I'm SITTING, DRINKING a beer-tini, and reading about YOUR weight loss! Hmmm...maybe I should go outside, huh??!!
ReplyDeleteAnyway - don't be upset that you're not losing any more - be proud of your accomplishment so far!