I know we can get okra in our grocery stores so the garden seed companies should have the seeds.

Um...we are limited to container-growing (west-facing porches) so I'm glad to hear it's easy to cultivate.

I'm going to get me a non-tilling, organic grower friend, and look for free places to scatter seeds...near water. We live by a large lake. Lots of creeks come down from the mountains, too.

The more water conservation we practice, the more likely we are to survive.

Water that goes through plants is the purest we can drink. Plants pick up only the things they need to grow, in the exact amounts they need...no more, no less.

The sweetest drink of water we can get is vegetable &/or fruit juice.

We dry out the land with tilling and other machines. Soil microorganisms die.

Okra continues to make a major change in my slow bowel functions but I have also been taking a similar (pinch) of sage at the same time, and my urinary control has relaxed too much. ...Back to the drawing board...


Thanks for your suggestions, my friends. The adventure continues, too.

F.

Right you are, Fledgling, about soil tilling. However, esp. for commercial growers, it is almost impossible to grow things without a certain amount of soil moving. I myself don't have a rototiller, but doing without one for nongrowing areas of the garden is hell on wheels. Weeds have to be controlled. Some weeds are worse than others. Ask Mr. Humaworm, I believe he's a farmer.

So I mulch and mulch and mulch and mulch until there is no more mulch to be had. And the weeds manage to struggle through.

Dh makes me a bowl of lightly cooked veggies for breakfast, most every day. Cabbage is often one of the four or five greens.

So, with the good pinch of dried okra, I am getting glutathione for chelation and whatever keeps me moving.

Every once in a while I feel I reach a new level of well-being. I certainly enjoy it.



Imagine that I see the dentist who was so cross with me for asking the price of replacing my mercury fillings with 'white'...now listed as a 'wholistic' dentist.

...Now I wonder if it is worth it to try to discuss where he took his 'wholistic' training, and so on...

Sigh!


I know, I know, the client couldn't possibly know as much as, or more, than the 'professional'.

I often think of you, R.G., and your patience with our endless questions.

My friends, for the finest education on herbals, go to http://www.curezone.com/forums/s.asp?f=762&c=0&t=150&ob=d&m=humaworm&p=1


...And read R.G.'s answers to our questions, right from the beginning of this forum.

Eventually, each of us 'gets' it.



Daisymae,

My stroke left me lumbering along at a top speed of SLOW, so, once again a spring is slipping by without my trying gardening theories.

I see finding free land, perhaps along a creekside, and scattering saved seeds.

I may find an organic gardener who agrees, and will try for me.

Hoping so.

F.