I wish I had a nickel for every time someone came to my yard, admired my plants and then said since I was a "professional" I must be using some secret fertilizer on my plants to make them look so nice. Are they surprised when I explained I buy what is cheapest at the time! K-grow from K-mart for a liquid fertilizer. High in Urea so it takes about two weeks before you see any reaction by the plant. I mention this because their are no "miracle fertilizers". I am not buying tomato grow, rose grow ect for each plant i fertilize. Yes I agree some plants are more heavy nitrogen feeders than others. Sometimes the issue is the fertility of the soil you have. I have used 10-10-10 on my tree fruits with good results. I have used lawn fertilizer (28-0-16) and had good results too, just use at a much lower rate as higher in nitrogen. My soils are fine on phosphorus and we have a phosphorus ban here anyway unless it is a new planting. I did not spring for a soil test but let the trees tell me the problem. I strive for 18"-24" of new growth on young fruit trees. If I don't get it, then next year I fertilize. Too much growth, then cut back or eliminate fertilizing the following year. I fertilize all my young fruit trees with a granular fertilizer just after leaf out by broadcasting it around the drip-line of the tree. My soil must be very low in nitrogen as imust apply a lite application around old established trees too or their foliage turns yellow-green by mid-June. I fertilize the old trees at about half the rate I use on the young ones so I do not promote a lot of growth but have good leaf color. I know this is not scientific but it has worked for me and I am happy with the results. If I was professionally growing fruit for a living, I would gladly pay for a soil test as well worth the cost and not worth the risk of going without it.

Here is a website that gives some info on flaxseed. Hope the link works. I don't use the oil, but sprinkle ground flaxseed on my cereal or in baking. You have to be careful with it as it goes rancid easily. The oil has to be kept out of the sun too. It has OMEGA-3's and lots of anti-oxidants. It is supposed to have lots of health benefits. I'm back on track today and feel so much better for it. Went to my exercise class this morning and have been tracking my food in the journal. If I don't track, I don't do well. Ruthieg glad you had a good day yesterday. I'm hoping to lose some before Christmas and if I can maintain between the 25th and Jan 1, I will consider myself to be successful. I'm glad I don't have any functions or parties to go to. Thank you guys for letting me join. I need support and don't have many friends here since I moved here last summer. My sisters try to be, but they need to lose weight also so at times it is "this little bit won't hurt" but all those "little bits" add up. That is how I got to be where I am. http://www.berkeleywellness.com/html/ds/dsFlaxseed.php Here is a link that might be useful: Flaxseed information

a very humble dinner tonight, cornbread is in the oven now. Daughter brought over homemade vegetable soup. Hubby is having soup and cornbread. I am having cornbread and milk. Grew up eating this, and still love it. Only thing different will be that I didn't milk the cow this morning for the milk. When I was small would take an onion out of the root cellar, sprinkle the bread and milk with black pepper and that was supper. In my older years, stopped the onion, but put lots of black pepper.

Great will power, Glenda! Sue, where have you been, or have I just missed your posts? I know, it's a busy time of year. Are the radishes you get hot? I love hot ones. Daddy used to grow those white icicle radishes and they were sooooo good!