Open Post... With a Summer Garden Photo Tour!

[kimberlysteele]

The work in progress... I meant to do more plantings in the front.  As I mentioned in my Spring Garden post, the boxwood experiment is over (they hate the front yard) unless they're in containers.  My plans are to put more hardy perennials in the front that can take crappy conditions.  The front garden you see here has got the worst soil in my entire yard.

This is one of the few shady spots in the yard.  It's my favorite spot because it's the most established.  The hostas come in thickly enough to keep weeding to a minimum.  The pear tree hasn't fruited yet but it provides some nice shade.  In this garden, there is a Rose of Sharon, many varieties of hosta, ferns, a black cohosh, catmint, borage, and purple coneflower.




Raspberry bushes -- they are producing the sweetest berries I've ever tasted right now!  Also various daylilies, rudibeckias sown from seed, and a butterfly bush that is about to bloom.

Borage growing alongside the tomatoes.

One of our many ferals in the sea of herbs and Stella D'Oro daylilies that is the Celtic Cross garden.  I never bought a single Stella daylily, by the way, these are 100% divisions from the plants from the front of the office building where I rent space.


Milkweed is blooming!  This milkweed was started from seeds a few years ago.  I gathered the seeds at the local forest preserve sometime around the autumn of 2017.  I just let it grow in the beds.  Butterflies and bees love it.  

Comments

[cutekitten]

Looks great! How do you deal with squirrels?

Squirrels

[kimberlysteele]

They don't do much -- you would think the squirrels and chipmunks would get at the raspberries. Nope. I suspect this is due to the colony of feral cats who live on the premises.

Haven

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Kimberly,
Very pretty! I expect you have clamed your part of the neighbourhood a bit with all this lovely planting. May your garden magic expand and enfold the whole city!
Maxine

Re: Haven

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you!

[mollari]

Hi Kimberly,

I'm always impressed when you post pictures of your garden: it always looks quite lovely.

On a very different topic, my parents got their second dose Covid "vaccines" Monday, and I'm now even more confident I don't want to get it, which I didn't think was possible. Their short term side effects from the first dose didn't seem too bad, but it does look like the second one is way worse. My dad is knocked down on his back, and shows no sign of recovering; while my mom got a killer migraine. According to my mom, it's just a fluke she had a killer migraine, and the fact my dad looks like he's dying (this is not hyperbole by the way; I'm worried he might actually be about to die) is proof that I need a vaccine, because a) they're perfectly safe and the fact these symptoms started when they got the shot is a fluke; b) the symptoms prove it works, so the fact it's worse than Covid would be for my dad is actually a good sign, and c) just think of how bad Covid must be if the vaccine, which is vastly more mild than Covid, does this!

The fact that these arguments cannot all be true does not seem to enter into the equation in the least. The way that the brutal symptoms they got hit with is being used as proof that the "vaccines" are necessary and good is profoundly unnerving; if this is widespread, then as more people get their second doses things are about to get even crazier when it comes to the pressures to get these "vaccines"...

[kimberlysteele]

Yikes! That's terrible. Your poor dad. Being laid out like that is brutal. It's amazing their dissonance has outlasted the side effects of this horrible inoculation. Coviditarians/Branch Covidians act as if they are members of a looney-moonie religious cult. They have drunk the Kool-Aid, barely survived, and gone back to worshipping their dead leader. Sadly, if my parents were like yours, I'd move as far away as I could get and never speak to them again. I don't say that lightly or easily as living without parents isn't anything I'd wish on a person. If you move to Hawaii for Pele, definitely stop by if and when you go through O'Hare airport!

You were asking for recipes -- I have a ton. I will answer you on JMG's blog.

[kimberlysteele]

Also, I had a young friend, not yet 30, who got the shot even though she didn't want to. Pressure from family and friends, of course. She has not felt good since. It was only the first one.

[mollari]

I have a couple of friends who did not want to get the shots, but did it anyway; so far they didn't get the second ones, and luckily they've turned out okay. I don't want to think about what'll happen when they do finally get the second shots, or if it turns out any of the concerns around long term issues or ADE turn out to happen...

[mollari]

I'm really, really happy that my dad seems to be recovering. He's also been the most reasonable member of my family regarding my concerns. I haven't told him I never plan to get one, but he agrees that it's reasonable for me to wait for long term safety data. Once he's up and about I'll see whether his opinion has changed for these vaccines. I sometimes wonder what he'd be like if he didn't have my mother in his life: I think he made a major mistake marrying her, but it's his decision, and he does love her.

As for moving to Hawaii, I'm thinking my best bet is to move to the US first, and then go to Hawaii once I'm in. People on the islands don't usually like to hire people who aren't already there, because too many people will apply and then if they got the job not take it. So barring a minor miracle, I'll likely be moving to the continental US first. Of course, Pele may very well grant me such a minor miracle, but I won't plan on it. I will let you know if I'm ever in the area. I figure there's a good chance of that when I move into the US, given that Chicago is a major hub for travel.

Finally, thank your for the recipes! Taking a look at frozen dinners for ideas is a wonderful idea, and one I think I'll will help my meal planning a lot.

[kimberlysteele]

Ugh, there's someone on JMG's Open Post (Dylan) saying he's thinking of getting the vax! I just wrote a long paragraph suggesting he or she look into it first.

Side effects

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone heard if one of the side effects can be Ulcerative colitis? My 69 year old uncle just got that after his second dose. Everyone else that I know who has got the vaccines have gotten pretty sick after the second dose for only a day. Then they feel fine. Almost all of them are not crazy about the situation so maybe that helps.

Will O

Re: Side effects

[kimberlysteele]

Some people may be getting a placebo: https://www.bitchute.com/video/JkkyiA4wWMVU/

[houseofmirrors]

I stumbled here after seeing your your YouTube videos so I don't know the references to JMG or the associated blog

Is there an enlightening URL to share?

[kimberlysteele]

Yes... it's a great blog! http://ecosophia.net and http://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org

[houseofmirrors]

Thank you, this looks really good so far!

Down the Rabbit Hole

[kimberlysteele]

I've posted this list further downthread as well. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Why the Vaxxed are Acting Strange

https://www.bitchute.com/video/JkkyiA4wWMVU/

Dr. Carrie Madej: "There's No Off Button"

https://www.bitchute.com/video/U33GARzdBsFH/

Girl's Pfizer Jab Reaction: Blind, Deaf, Throat Paralysis, Tremors

https://www.bitchute.com/video/rWcbg2peAHWh/

PHARMACIST QUITS JOB AND SPILL THE BEANS - CVS PHARMACY PAYS $6,500/WEEK FOR GIVING VACCINES

https://www.bitchute.com/video/WWq5wFqcag3j/

In the US, 30 People Die Per Day of the Corona Vax

https://www.bitchute.com/video/mKZGWAyIytYD/

Ex-Pfizer VP Yeadon Warns: Children 50 Times More Likely to Die From Vaccine Than Virus

https://rumble.com/viaz6n-ex-pfizer-vp-yeadon-warns-children-50-times-more-likely-to-die-from-vaccine.html

Dr Roger Hodkinson: Everything is a Pack of Lies

Reproductive wild cards. Children as young as six months being vaccinated.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/jDQQUzOGUZRK/

[mollari]

Oof. I really hope he/she doesn't get it. I'll write up a story relating my dad's experience with it tomorrow, and hopefully it'll help dissuade him/her. It just seems too risky for my tastes, especially since Dylan said a loved one was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Dead is dead, whether it's Covid or otherwise; but it's surreal how many people don't seem to get that.

[tamanous2020]

The garden looks great Kim. What were the the biggest lessons you've learned to be a successful gardener?

Tamanous

[kimberlysteele]

Awww, thanks.

I don't consider myself that great of a gardener -- I'm just lucky that the place where I live has good soil and weather and feral cats who stop the littler animals from eating my produce. I don't use pesticides stronger than baking soda, salt, dishwashing detergent, and cooking oil. If I get "pests", such as aphids, that means my mini-ecosystem is trying to balance itself. I might spray some DIY aphid spray but other than that, I don't care. Speaking of "pests", there is a resident woodchuck who seems to be living under the shed. I couldn't care less. So far, he or she has only eaten one green tomato. You would think he or she would go for the raspberries, but nobody seems to be eating them except me! It's their loss...

[kimberlysteele]

I do have two tips.

1. Plants love a haircut. It's far better to prune than not to prune. Cutting off the dead stuff is always a good idea, and trimming anything before it gets leggy helps the plant. The worst thing that can happen is blooms get delayed.

2. Move plants to where they like it, not where you like to see them. I've learned this the hard way many times.

[methylethyl]

Lovely garden! My husband's job trajectory is forcing us out into the rental market, and... sigh. It's not just that I'll be leaving my garden behind, it's that if we're renting, I can't plant a new one. I have potted up as many things as possible, hoping for a sunny patio or something.

Right now, we've just had a tropical storm system move through and drop a foot of rain in two days. My garden looks like an archipelago in the sea.

[kimberlysteele]

Oh no! That's so sad. Definitely a "make lemonade out of lemons" situation -- I have a book on how to grow food indoors. You need a very sunny house or grow lights galore, but it is entirely do-able. Maybe get a pop-up greenhouse if you end up with a yard?

[methylethyl]

Yeah, we'll just have to see where we end up. The rental search has been deeply frustrating, but we are throwing ourselves on God's mercy, and trust that whatever comes to us, it will be what we need.

[lp9]

Beautiful garden! May it be lovely and productive the rest of the summer and into the fall! Any tips for borage? I planted some (seeds) for the first time this year and none germinated...

[kimberlysteele]

Sadly, I don't know why borage decides to come up... mine was from seeds that I threw into the garden bed in May of 2019 and they mostly came up. I did throw most of the packet in there. Once it does come up, it tends to self sow every year.

[kimberlysteele]

Also, if you are in the continental US, I can mail you some seeds.

Some interesting videos about the COVID shots.

[kimberlysteele]

Why the Vaxxed are Acting Strange

https://www.bitchute.com/video/JkkyiA4wWMVU/

Dr. Carrie Madej: "There's No Off Button"

https://www.bitchute.com/video/U33GARzdBsFH/

Girl's Pfizer Jab Reaction: Blind, Deaf, Throat Paralysis, Tremors

https://www.bitchute.com/video/rWcbg2peAHWh/

PHARMACIST QUITS JOB AND SPILL THE BEANS - CVS PHARMACY PAYS $6,500/WEEK FOR GIVING VACCINES

https://www.bitchute.com/video/WWq5wFqcag3j/

In the US, 30 People Die Per Day of the Corona Vax

https://www.bitchute.com/video/mKZGWAyIytYD/

Ex-Pfizer VP Yeadon Warns: Children 50 Times More Likely to Die From Vaccine Than Virus

https://rumble.com/viaz6n-ex-pfizer-vp-yeadon-warns-children-50-times-more-likely-to-die-from-vaccine.html

Dr Roger Hodkinson: Everything is a Pack of Lies

Reproductive wild cards. Children as young as six months being vaccinated.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/jDQQUzOGUZRK/

Re: Some interesting videos about the COVID shots.

[tamanous2020]

JMG's Mundane Chart predicted some major 6th house nastiness for the US. I can't help but think this vaccine toll, whether injuries or in straight death, is a major component of that. Now it seems like instead of simply dismissing claims, it looks like officials and news sources are having to now go with the "side effects are problems but covid is worse" spiel. Especially in regards to a) the risk of heart failure for young men b) the observance of the vaccine being highly concentrated in major organs and areas like ovaries, bone marrow kidneys, spleens etc, as opposed to staying in the injection zone, and c) this so called delta virus version being 6x deadlier for vaccinated vs unvaccinated individuals. At the very least, we're looking at a large number of people, especially the young, running the likelihood of major health and autoimmune problems moving forward.

Tamanous

Re: Some interesting videos about the COVID shots.

[kimberlysteele]

I think it's going to come to a head when the children and teenagers of today become the young adults of tomorrow and want to start families. From what I can see, not only will the vaxxed have a laundry list of vaccine-caused chronic health ailments, but they will stand a good chance of being sterile. Of course the health "experts" will claim the vaxx is not to blame. We may come to an era where the vaxxed are horribly lampooned for their infertility (as a way of hating and shaming their parents) as the unvaxxed are fetishized for their ability to reproduce. Generational warfare, here we come... again.

Re: Some interesting videos about the COVID shots.

[tamanous2020]

The handmaidens tale, a tv series where most women are sterile and the small remainder are considered a vital commodity, may be an instance of life imitating art (just as much as the film Children of Men). If we thought the attitude towards the boomer generation is bad now, just wait until the youth really start feeling the long term impact. My only hope, given the increasingly bad medical news, is that the wholesale mandate for children and the remaining unvaccinated, through private and public entities, becomes non viable as the issues become more apparent. Id rather have good health then a non-apology admitting culpability by the government in 30 years.

Re: Some interesting videos about the COVID shots.

[kimberlysteele]

A long time ago, I realized health is more important than money. What good is being able to afford $300 champagne when you can't even drink it painfully through a straw with the help of a nurse? My husband used to work at the casino. At least the gamblers there aren't betting their health for the remainder of their lives, unlike the shot-takers. Gross as it is, people who have horrible reactions to the vaxx are getting some instant karma for going along with the fear narrative. This does not make it any less tragic or more desirable.

As for the Handmaid's Tale, the author is an unhinged wokester lefty Canadian named Maggie Atwood. There is a special irony in her creation of the Handmaid's Tale universe where the US has gone bonkers and Canada is the refuge of sanity -- Atwood created a similar situation in her novels Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. Contrast Canada right now, which is spiraling into a Great Depression because of its insane lockdown policies. Meanwhile, the US is mostly open...

Re: Some interesting videos about the COVID shots.

[houseofmirrors]

Why wouldn't it be the case that since the sterilized would be the majority that they aren't the ones who would subjugate those who don't suffer the affliction?

This would be especially the case if daddy government promised to give those people perfectly genetically engineered children based on the breed stock of people who had the sense not to rush into an untested drug.

Re: Some interesting videos about the COVID shots.

[houseofmirrors]

Lots of interesting material here. My own "wait and see" strategy may have to extend farther than I'd originally thought given the potential of things like placebo.

Of course my suspicion is that "boosters" would quickly follow to try to mitigate damage from the first round

I'm nowhere near you and I don't use Facebook for anything. I'm not sure how I'd even find a group like the one you talk about in my west coast city

Re: Some interesting videos about the COVID shots.

[kimberlysteele]

One of the reasons I'm so keen to move my business out of Naperville is because people here lined up like good little lemmings to get themselves and their children inoculated.

Another one, this person is an Illinois local

[kimberlysteele]

Re: Another one, this person is an Illinois local

[(Anonymous)]

Between reading this and seeing the discussion on Dark Horse Podcast (between Bret Weinstein, Dr. Robert Malone and Steve Kirsch), seeing how the media and "authorities" are avoiding ANY discussion of natural immunity and my own front line observations during the past year and a half, I (my wife as well) would honestly rather die than take the vaccines. We've also had COVID, which for us, turned out to be a mild cold. The whole thing smacks of profiteering, and has from the beginning, and I think the obvious question we should always be asking ourselves is "Who benefits?" Doesn't really take long to answer that question either.

I also have to praise your efforts in setting up the Facebook group to let liberty minded people communicate.

Sincerely,
Brother Josephus

Re: Another one, this person is an Illinois local

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you so much for this. It is nice to hear there is someone else who REALLY DOES NOT want the vaccine forced upon them. I would be fine with the vaxxers if they weren't trying to get the whole population to go on their fool's errand. The horrible side effect of what they have done is that now there are whole generations who won't trust real, useful vaccines when they become available. I also think there may be a side effect apocalypse around the corner for them.

Garden

[abrahamjpalma]

I love nature driven gardens.

I want to do something alike in a shared garden I'm helping with. But my challenges are nigh: USDA 9, heavy soil, no irrigation at all, 500mm rainfall per year but not a single drop from June to September, Mediterranean climate. The only good things are that we suffer no frost here, this garden is one of the few where we are allowed to grow trees and that people is willing to change the paradigm from urban market garden to edible forest garden. At least, while they find a way to get irrigation.

Last year I observed, learned and experimented. This year I am selecting the species I want to introduce. I want them to produce food or beauty (the theme is edible garden, so it must have shade, flowers and food), and I want them to be able to thrive on their own (since we are volonteers and very few are dependable).

I still cannot show you pretty shots, but you can see how fares one of the experiments here:
https://permies.com/t/152917/permaculture-projects/sunken-bed-time-tips

Re: Garden

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you! Hmmm, maybe try prickly pear and agave? Just a thought. Trees are wonderful but they can be too much of a water draw. You also might try lettuce and spinach, especially Malabar spinach which is a type of vine (trellis?) and loves hot weather. Lettuce is so hardy, it's weird. I would also suspect tomatoes and broccoli would love a frost-free climate. Lavender thrives on dryness and neglect as well. Seems like the perfect climate for basil.

Another interesting video

[kimberlysteele]

https://www.bitchute.com/video/I59ZKRcf8PFH/

[youngelephant]

I am jealous of your garden :)

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks!