My biological schedule is another matter. Cannot do the whole "as long as I get 5 hours of sleep I'm fine" thing any more. Losing too much sleep can cause pretty bad consequences for days.
Been observing the garden where I laid plastic down. Where the black plastic is down, I had just put it over the dry dead grass, so it was raised up slightly. Now that weather is warming up and the irrigation is running underneath the plastic, the plastic is less raised as the grass effectively composts under the plastic. That's a very good sign. I think the major effect will occur starting this week and next, as the ambient temperatures rise above 90. The heat should concentrate under the plastic. Hopefully enough to kill the seeds. The translucent plastic is starting to have effects but not nearly as much as the black.
I've gone through at least two bags of potting soil so far this year, 2 cubic ft each. Not done yet, looks like I need another to get pumpkins and some other things going. Part of that is the large containers I've been using but those have also helped many of the plants survive without being root bound. I think by next year I'll get another metal drum which I can use to heat garden soil for the purpose, killing off weed seeds and noxious insects.
I am still making an effort to beautify the area by spreading seeds which have a chance of growing here. Giant sunflowers, Cosmos and Marigold seeds. Not really seeing much luck from seeds spread previous years but I keep trying. It may be because I just spread them on the soil surface and they get taken up by birds. Birds go after what they can find because there are limits to what is available to them. Of course if any of the seeds grow it will increase their available food supply in the long term. Where I can, I toss them into piles of leaves and such, where they have a chance of retaining moisture and not being seen by birds. May still see some results from previous seeds in a few weeks because none of my own flowers are blooming yet this year but roses.
Learned something else I have to avoid eating. MSG. So that eliminates some of my favorite spice mixes and a lot of Chinese food. That's probably why I've had problems after eating Chinese food on weekends with daughter. Damn I wish there were more barbecue places here. Like Bill Miller's.
Related to that, I'm skipping the gym tonight. I was not feeling so good much of the day because I ate chicken with a lot of MSG last night. Today was when it clicked what the problem was. I may have more tolerance to jalapeños than I thought, which would be good. Some of the food I ate jalapeños with were also cooked with MSG. Give it a couple days, test the theory and find out.
8:30 PM- Took a look through my spices and got a surprise I wasn't counting on. Looks like pretty much all of my seasoned salts have MSG in them! Looked into it online earlier and some sources say MSG is quite toxic to ulcerative colitis. If true, I have again been poisoning myself for years without knowing it. So, next step is to avoid MSG. Easy to do at home. Maybe make my own seasoned salt. See if that makes a difference. That could very well explain a lot. Just for safety, also going to avoid meat tenderizer, which can act as a blood thinner.
I planted one more cannabis seed a little while ago. I'm allowed 4 mature plants and 12 seedlings. I'm going to shoot for the maximum for some simple reasons. For one, I want to produce seeds for the future instead of paying for them. For another, male plants are allegedly basically useless beyond fertilizing female plants so they do produce seeds. Not like any females will go to waste. Been reading up and learned dry (seasoned) cannabis will last for several years. Long as I package it securely it will remain good.
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