Growing Machine!

Matt has been a growing machine!! He is starting off most of his seeds in the smoke house(you can see to the left of the picture) under a constant light. He is checking the amount of moisture(since each plant needs something different) and checking the pH thru out the garden to make sure it is correct. I think he said it was too alkaline(a higher # for all of us non-chemistry people). I'm excited for him AND excited about this wonderful food we get to eat! 

He found some fencing(you can see in picture below) that he put around the entire garden to keep out deer, dogs & cats:) He seems to believe Mama & Owen won't jump it to get it....let's hope he is right!!

To the right is lemon balm and under the cover is watermelons, which he started from seeds.

Here is garlic, elephant garlic and red onions that he planted just after Thanksgiving. Vampires won't be visiting our house with all the garlic!!

Here is one of the potato plants, not sure which one.

This is red leaf lettuce.

Spinach

Being resourceful and collecting rain water!

I wanted to give an update on Pal, who we started on the Neoplasene, nine days ago. We kept him on the lowest dose possible and he was doing so well we bumped the dosage up a notch. He did lose a little weight but now he is really at a healthy weight as he was overweight before. There were all those fillers in the dry dog food so his new diet of ground beef, white rice and veggies and some dairy when he gets his meds is giving him more energy and spunk!

He really is doing fabulous! His appetite, water drinking and bathroom habits have all remained the same. The color of his stool is different, which is to be expected with the change of diet, but he goes like normal and with normal frequency. All of us animal owners know that checking color & consistency of the stool may be gross, but necessary!

It's hard to say if his breathing has gotten less labored, but then again he has only been on the medicine not even two weeks. I'm very happy with how he is doing all around! Which makes me VERY HOPEFUL about how Neoplasene will work on Savvy!!!

Remember to be an original, even if it means being a little eccentric !