"Your blood test tells me that you are glucose intolerant," said his physician to my husband on Monday morning a week ago, "and you need to cut out breads, sugary desserts, potatoes, fried or baked snacks, pasta, and other starches that turn into sugar in the digestive tract."
After at least a week of looking up the term, it dawned on me that my retirement is over, we need a garden, and the exercise will not hurt him either. I've already received a few small packets of seeds I ordered, and am getting ready to put the bite on my brother and BIL to change the tractor mower for the tiller again, so I can tear up the thick grass covering the garden that failed 2 years ago when I came down with parathyroid issues and had to have surgery to fix it.
There are so many things to learn about gardening I've forgotten over the 30 years that I dedicated to quilting, which caused my green thumb to turn brown, so the learning has to be done all over again, but at least we're 5,000 feet closer to sea level here than at mile-high Wyoming where we spent 40 of the last 44 years.
One of the seeds I received is Purple Lead Plant, Amorpha Canescens. The seeds are under 2 millimeters in length or most likely, 16 end to end might make an inch. The plant has medical uses, I learned, wondering why someone would grow something with a name with "lead" in it. It's possible I found a butterfly that likes its nectar or uses it as a host plant to lay its eggs. It's been awhile since the seeds were ordered however, and I just don't remember what caused me to buy the seed or whether it was sent as a free packet since I bought 4 or more seed packets from the seller.
Here's what I found at Amorpha canescens Lead Plant PFAF Plant Database:
After at least a week of looking up the term, it dawned on me that my retirement is over, we need a garden, and the exercise will not hurt him either. I've already received a few small packets of seeds I ordered, and am getting ready to put the bite on my brother and BIL to change the tractor mower for the tiller again, so I can tear up the thick grass covering the garden that failed 2 years ago when I came down with parathyroid issues and had to have surgery to fix it.
There are so many things to learn about gardening I've forgotten over the 30 years that I dedicated to quilting, which caused my green thumb to turn brown, so the learning has to be done all over again, but at least we're 5,000 feet closer to sea level here than at mile-high Wyoming where we spent 40 of the last 44 years.
One of the seeds I received is Purple Lead Plant, Amorpha Canescens. The seeds are under 2 millimeters in length or most likely, 16 end to end might make an inch. The plant has medical uses, I learned, wondering why someone would grow something with a name with "lead" in it. It's possible I found a butterfly that likes its nectar or uses it as a host plant to lay its eggs. It's been awhile since the seeds were ordered however, and I just don't remember what caused me to buy the seed or whether it was sent as a free packet since I bought 4 or more seed packets from the seller.
Here's what I found at Amorpha canescens Lead Plant PFAF Plant Database:
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"An infusion of the leaves makes a pleasant tasting yellow tea. An infusion of the leaves has been used to kill pinworms or any intestinal worms. The infusion is also used to treat eczema, the report does not say it if is used internally or externally. The dried and powdered leaves are applied as a salve to cuts and open wounds. A decoction of the root is used to treat stomach pains. A moxa of the twigs has been used in the treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism."
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It sounds like it's totally antibiotic to germs and tiny critters nobody wants to know up close and personal. 
This should be a very interesting plant, if I can get some of the seeds to grow, that is.
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Source of picture: Arboretum Nature Notes
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