Re: RE: Re: lefty's and plum trees?

Interesting Bonnie - we're running a constant 85-95% humidity too, rain
or not instead of our usual summer 50-70%. Not fun. Gives me a new
appreciation for our coastal members Jim & Andrea and Noreen in Houston.
It's terribly humid down there so close to the Gulf.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Bonnie Holmes
Sent: 6/26/2004 10:44:56 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: Re: [CHAT] lefty's and plum trees?

> With all the MRI studies on the brain and the ID of various structural
> differences, I am wondering if left handed people and right handed people
> have any differences.  I am right handed but often exchange hands,
> especially when doing repetitive tasks.  When I had my rotator cuff surgery
> a couple of years ago, I had to put my left hand to work...after about a
> week, it did quite well...but my right hand is definitely dominate...maybe
> I should have kept it up...I start walking with my right  foot and usually
> use my right foot for digging.
> 
> The rain I asked for finally came in for the past 10 days...we had flash
> floods last Thursday and yesterday...I mowed in between drops...in the UT
> Trial Gardens, we have pruned and pulled tons of weeks and I have done the
> same in my gardens...we seem to be having a "feast and famine" type of rain
> cycle this year but are staying so humid...in the 90s%...I am thinking
> maybe we should have a humidity index as well as a frost and heat.
> 
> Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Donna <justme@prairieinet.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 06/26/2004 5:29:13 AM
> > Subject: RE: Re: [CHAT] lefty's and plum trees?
> >
> > Never thought about which foot I use... but thinking right, unless more
> > power is needed then both:)
> >
> > So how many are also left eye dominated? I am, although most times I use
> > my right hand for most things. Also noticed that in extreme situations,
> > my left side is there first and the one that gets hurt.... as in when
> > the air bag goes off in a car, my left arm is the one that broke as I
> > lifted it to protect myself... does this make sense.. need more
> > coffee!:)
> >
> > PLUM Tree:
> > I have two here, one ornamental and the other for fruit. Both are
> > underplanted and seem fine Bonnie. How old is your tree? Maybe I will
> > have the problem later as mine are about 6 years old.
> >
> > At a previous house, there was a Italian plum tree smack dab next to the
> > garage.(no I didn't plant it, came that way, and that is what the
> > previous owner called it). Didn't seem to hurt the foundation as it was
> > an old tree. Wish I knew what tree it really was as it had the best
> > fruit... for eating or making jams. Small oblong fruit but very tasty.
> >
> > Donna
> >
> >
> > > 
> > > And I thought I was the only one to use both feet trying to get the
> > blade
> > > to
> > > sink deeper than an inch in dry clay!  LOL!!!  Well, you know
> > sometimes we
> > > "little people" need to compensate for a lack of oomph with
> > determination.
> > > I can did with either foot (in other than hardened clay) but usually
> > end
> > > up
> > > using both feet anyway.  The thing is, I do only use my right foot for
> > the
> > > garden fork.  I don't quite understand why I treat it differently than
> > a
> > > shovel.
> > > 
> > > Speaking of which, I bent my garden fork trying to get one of those
> > > plastic
> > > tree rings (that you can fill with mulch for looks) and found that
> > even my
> > > garden fork couldn't separate the soil from the tree ring.  Who knew
> > that
> > > a
> > > plum tree would send out a MAJOR root over the top of the ring and
> > back
> > > out
> > > through a drainage hole into the soil like a staple?  Are plum roots
> > > normally that aggressive?  I had planned to plant around the base of
> > this
> > > plum tree, but now I'm not sure anything will grow for all that
> > aggressive
> > > rooting near and at the surface of the soil.  Can I plant there?  Was
> > this
> > > thing with the tree ring a rarity?
> > > 
> > > Blessings,
> > > Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> >
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