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I suspect that was a bad idea (gardening)
I strained my right thumb on Monday (too much use of a pen, from too much time doing crossword and sudoku puzzles).
Tuesday I mostly spent reading, because that was the way to keep cool and not use my hands much (both those days were very hot, I think high of 95 F/35 C on Monday and 91/33 on Tuesday, and bright sun both days). Yesterday's weather was delightful (sunny and around 74° (23 C). I went out for a nice long walk and got lunch and ice cream, then went to a farmers' market (the one in Davis Square), where I got strawberries and Diva cucumbers.
Then home, and some amount of computer stuff; both at the computer and while eating lunch, I used my left hand a lot more than usual, to spare the right thumb.
So of course by the end of the day my left thumb was feeling overused, though the right hand was a lot better. *sigh*
Nonetheless, this morning I went to the garden supply store and bought a dozen marigolds, which I have planted around the tomatoes in the front garden. (We have five tomato plants, and I had previously planted six marigolds, which isn't enough.) I also watered everything (well, all the vegetables, and the two sunflower plants in the planting strip next to the street), but exercised self-control in the matter of weeding: I removed only those weeds that were in the way of where I wanted the marigolds.
That was less gardening that I might have wanted to do, and a lot less than the garden could use, but it may have been more than was prudent in terms of my hands.
Some of the clover seed I set out, either last fall or this spring, sprouted, so I am now carefully leaving that as well as the sorrel in the ground. The sorrel is pretty, but I'll pull it out if it's in the way; the clover I actively want, for the sake of the soil. I planted about ten sunflower seeds, from a packet I was sent last year, and got two plants. And there is a lot of milkweed.
Tuesday I mostly spent reading, because that was the way to keep cool and not use my hands much (both those days were very hot, I think high of 95 F/35 C on Monday and 91/33 on Tuesday, and bright sun both days). Yesterday's weather was delightful (sunny and around 74° (23 C). I went out for a nice long walk and got lunch and ice cream, then went to a farmers' market (the one in Davis Square), where I got strawberries and Diva cucumbers.
Then home, and some amount of computer stuff; both at the computer and while eating lunch, I used my left hand a lot more than usual, to spare the right thumb.
So of course by the end of the day my left thumb was feeling overused, though the right hand was a lot better. *sigh*
Nonetheless, this morning I went to the garden supply store and bought a dozen marigolds, which I have planted around the tomatoes in the front garden. (We have five tomato plants, and I had previously planted six marigolds, which isn't enough.) I also watered everything (well, all the vegetables, and the two sunflower plants in the planting strip next to the street), but exercised self-control in the matter of weeding: I removed only those weeds that were in the way of where I wanted the marigolds.
That was less gardening that I might have wanted to do, and a lot less than the garden could use, but it may have been more than was prudent in terms of my hands.
Some of the clover seed I set out, either last fall or this spring, sprouted, so I am now carefully leaving that as well as the sorrel in the ground. The sorrel is pretty, but I'll pull it out if it's in the way; the clover I actively want, for the sake of the soil. I planted about ten sunflower seeds, from a packet I was sent last year, and got two plants. And there is a lot of milkweed.
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2) I've seen pots for sale at the nursery with tomatoes, marigolds, and I don't remember what else (some other vegetable? calendula?) and there didn't seem to be a lot of space between the tomatoes and the marigolds, so I think I'm going to be okay. I also put marigolds next to the tomatoes last year, but I don't remember what spacing I used.
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