So far the easiest things to grow have been the cherry tomato plants and the carrots, hardly any real work needs to be done for them to grow other than watering, the strawberries are also now growing well but this year I don't expect a big harvest. I might let them spread in the garden box a bit. I expect I'll get around 30 strawbwerry plants next year which should be enough for me.
Although some things went good, somethings never really went that well, like the broccoli. The green caterpillars loved them and the plants just looked terrible recently so I pulled all but one of them. It's ok, I won't be doing so much broccoli next year because other plants you can get bigger harvests from in less time.
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whoa, nice carrots!
Wow, your harvest is amazing.
Lovely carrots, Matt. I grow mostly green herbs and onions in pots in my urban garden. This year I also joined a Consumer Supported Agriculture farm from which I receive gobs of good food: turnips, beets, carrots, chard, kale, cabbage, scallions, bok choy, collards, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and more herbs. It's tremendous! Got any good recipes for kale? It's kind of strong for a smoothy, so I usually cook it up with garlic and shiitake mushrooms. Good work here. Thanks for the link.
Matt, you're the same guy who posted about being floxxed, right? Have you looked at the symptoms of magnesium deficiency and calcium deficiency? (magnesium deficiency can cause calcium deficiency) A lot of what you listed last year can be magnesium-related, and the quinolones do something to plug up magnesium receptors. People recover somewhat using magnesium supplements. Best Wishes! Renate
hi Matt
nice going! my ex sister in law is a pioneer woman. for over 20 years she's grown her own veggies in Vermont, canning, freezing for later consumption. sometimes she sells in the local market what is over the amount she and her family can consume.
cheers,
Arturo
I wish that it was a magneisum or calcium deficiency, but I was supplementing 300-500mg of magneisum + getting more than enough from my diet also. The Cipro affects the GABAa and NMDA receptors in the brain causing excitoxicity. Magneisum deficiency just predisposes you to such a reaction it's not the cause. The tendinitis is induced by oxidative stress, which again the risk can be increase by Mg deficiency but it's not the cause. Plus Cipro blocks the ability of the tendon to heal by inhibitng elastin and collagen synthesis so you get poor healing after the initial direct toxic effect on tenocytes.
Not being able to run for almost 2 years because of bilateral achilles tendinitis was NOT mangeisum deficiency ;)
Anyway I'm over it and thats what matter. If any of you take a quinolone you're NUTS.
Matthew, you seem to eat a copious amount of fruits and veggies-- did you ever consider that you may just have an overload of plant-like compounds? Most plant compounds work like toxins in our body-- of course, many of them have beneficial after-effects-- but some people forget that they are toxins-- and our liver does have to process them-- maybe you were sensitive to something you were eating.
Resveratrol also seems to cause heel tendinitis-- someone posted about that at Immt before. Maybe its possible that your calorie restriction is also stimulating the pathway that caused tendinitis in the heels of people who were taking resveratrol.
I think that CR might have made me become more at risk from the effects of cipro, like tendinitis. There could be an interesting connection with resveratrol here too! ;)
I remember back on 21st october in 2007 I took the cipro and within a few hours I couldn't walk! It was amazing just how fast I was affected from 250mg of cipro! Prior to this I had never had any tendinitis in my life even when playing football (soccer) for over 10 years practically everyday, doing various martial arts and other extreme sports. Never no issues...
I have also taken resveratrol back in early 2006 but it was really low doses then. I wonder if high dose resveratrol would cause me tendinitis?
I also considered the plant compounds and how they affect drug metabolism, it could be that due to the very high consumption of frutis and veggies, aswell as supplements there were alteration in how fast i metabolize things, plus various epigenetic changes.
CR certainly didn't CAUSE my tendinitis, though it might have made more more suceptible to it, if that makes any sense? Because it would be too much of a coincidence to have bilateral achilles tendinitis within hours of taking Cirpofloxaicn, which is well known for causing achilles tendinitis :D
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