Thanks guys, lucy, i'm not just throwing away my meds all at once and i'm not doing it on a cut off my nose to spite my face attidude.I'm trying to save mine and my daughters life for as long as i can. We have between us had 5 horrible misdiagnosis by doctors that have left both of us disabled in differant ways and are on disability because of it. The reason i have CHF is because of diabetic meds i took for years.I had a stroke because of another medication prescribed. Had almost a 3month bad reaction to another drug even tho it was on my records not to give it to me.The doctor forgot to read that page for the reactions i had before.I did'nt have to pay for that hospitalization.Because they thought i'd sue. I was hospitalized for severe pain in the left back upper abdomen and was dehydrated,high temp,high wbc. Ihad sat at home in pain for 5 days because of my warrented distrust of doctors. Went to emergency room ,was admitted. However the ER record that showed a large kidney stone blocking the tube at the kidney was left in ER.Floor dr. could'nt come up with diagnosis, however bp had shot up So dr gives me lisenopril in hosp.Turns out as with a few other drugs i had a one in 10,000 reaction to drug. temp up, slight rash and my throat started slowly swelling.Nurses said i was having a panic attack and had lain on my pillow wrong and had a crick in neck.I lay like that over nite till i could'nt talk and was having trouble breathing. When things were finally under controll again My DD asked the dr. What about the kidney stone? Dr. said "what kidney stone? After an MRI, i was transferred to another hosp and emergency surgery done.The kidney dr. said he did'nt know how i stood the pain that long.Sometimes the pain is better than the cure.DD,s lawer wanted me to sue, said i had an ironclad case. I do not sue people because that could not make me whole and that is all i want. That is not all thats happened to me and my dd in the health care system nor anywhere near all my health problems. bu it's all i'll talk about for now anyway.Does that give you an indication of my feelings for health care. Yes i have a resonable dr now and no i would'nt tell you if he told me to forget medical care and go for the herbs.I'm not stupid either and i like this man. eric, my feelings do not reflect on you in any way. I don't understand this prolong life attitude. For what? The quality? I'm not afraid to die and i wont go looking for death either. Obviously i'm not afraid of pain either.If i take care of myself i'll probably have less of it. No i don't think dr.s care either except when it applys to them or their familys along with apollig and most of the populace. Eric again i'm not saying you are like this but this is how the med field is perceived by many. i also wish the med profession and herbalism could peacefully join together and in some countrys this is and has always been so. Just not here. but more importantly the patients and doctors and nurses need to peacefully join together. The populace needs to be educated in basic understanding of medicine and health and the med field needs to be educated on talking on a level playing field to patients. Patients are much more intelligent than most med field people think. They are in general just lazy. LOL! Eric, as far as i know you do talk to and understand your patients .but most dr,s don't. When standard billing practice is to charge the patients for all care and meds caused by doctors mistakes, What can you expect? The way i put researching, on google i was misunderstood. That is what i do. I enjoy it. but not to have to proove everything i say on line. Tomorrow i'll address the other thread. just glancing through i saw a link to an herb that might help me. Thanks much. I'll thankfully look into it. See you tomorrow. vickie

Maybe the peelings in the compost grew? Wow! I just dug two potatoes up from where I planted because of no sprouts. If those are potatoes, I can transplant them to the other spot. I agree, this is a picture I found on the internet of them. That is sooooo funny! Thanks for the help.

In some severe cases, people have had wells drilled or dug. For many years this house existed on a well and septic system. The town finally added sewer and water lines, and we used to only use the sewer lines for quite a while. Unfortunately, the well pipes have now collapsed and so the well is unaccessable unless I dig up a concrete patio and part of my garden. With regard to bans on watering, I have never seen any here, and our water supply has been one of the best in the world. They pipe it in from the western part of the state, but because there are many small ponds around me, we have not had severe water shortages. Many of these ponds have been designated as alternate sources in emergencies and even have some pumping stations connected, so the fire departments can use them in a pinch. I use soaker hoses here mostly as they have to be the most efficent way to water a garden. The whole garden also as a black fabric mulch that helps to hold in the moisture. We are back to rain after just 4 days of a break in the weather. Luckily, nothing in my garden has suffered, except the peas, that were nearly washed way back in the beginning of April. Because I also grow a lot of blueberries, and the oak trees are next to the them, the blues have a nice heavy layer of dead oak leaves as a thick mulch. It could be 60 days with no little or no rain, and if I flip over the leaves, they are still damp underneath. Peat moss helps to hold in moisture. Another product is also great for helping in dry spells. Its a polymer crystal that soaks up water and turns into a soft gel. The gel eventually breaks down after about 2 years, and gives back necessary potassium. Cilantro does not like a lot of sun and heat, so it may be wise to have it planted in a mostly shady spot where it is a little cooler.

Mystery solved! It is wild marjoram, Origanum vulgare 'Compactum', so not as aromatic or flavoured as Greek oregano or sweet marjoram. I can't move it outside as we don't have a garden but I'll see how it does on the windowsill... Thanks for the suggestions!