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Comments (16)Thanks everyone. Ensete don't produce pups. Since they have never bloomed, they keep coming back year after year after year! Meyermike... After a killing frost, I chop them all off to a 4' stump, break my back fitting them into 15' gallon nursery pots (black plastic) and drag them across my lawn down the hill to my basement entrance (sliding glass doors). I chop them off to 4' stumps so that the plant and pot will fit in the door and be barely short enough to drag them on some plastic across my family room carpet, down the hall, and into an unlit, unheated food storage room. They keep growing for a couple of weeks but finally settle down and go dormant. I water them just once during the winter months. In April, I bring them out into the light and heat and they take off growing again! When the danger of frost has passed in mid May, I plant them outside in the same spots, year after year. They grow bigger with each passing year. As long as they don't flower (I don't expect they ever will) I don't see why they won't keep growing as many years as I want them to....See MoreWeek 12 Health Check-in
Comments (13)I haven't posted to this series of threads, but felt I have to. Kelly, you are doing great! I'm 62 years old and before Christmas I told hubs, again, that I wanted a bike. This time he listened and I got a yellow bike as my gift. Got him one too (birthday a 10 days after Christmas). Our doctor said I wouldn't lose weight because my intense exercise would create so much muscle. We have been biking on the beach (hard beach here in FL). Every other day, starting with 3 mi. and now up to 5.5 miles per day. Well, last night I put on three swimsuits I purchased 4 years ago and never wore. The only comment hubs made was that no one would guess my age! Guess I'll start wearing them while I bike. Nope, haven't lost weight, but at this age, it's hard to do. Cholesterol went down 50 points, legs look great, heart rate has gone down. That how I measure health at this point in life. Consistency is the key to changing health, and Kelly my hat's off to you! Waiting to lose weight after menopause makes the problem substantially harder!...See MoreNeed a laugh?
Comments (2)....because I'd been sitting on a banana. *snort!*...See Morebanana beichs
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