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| The Joe Pye buds appear before the plant reaches 6 or 7 feet. Meanwhile the foliage has a musk fragrances. |
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| The tiny Joe Pye blooms have a vanilla scent on top of the musk plant fragrance, attracting pollinators with the scent and pollen. |
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| The flowers turn fuzzy when pollenated and tiny seeds form This year I began cutting Joe Pye down by half, because they were spreading upward and sideways, with stalks that fanned upwards and blocked the competition, sometimes too well. The 50% Joe Pye began growing new buds and flowers after the trimmed them back. Butterflies and hummingbirds are still enjoying the garden, and fragrances remain, though not as strong as before. Jesus, the Lord of Creation, has designed plants to be prolific, in spite of losses. We all know but somehow forget that picking beans, tomatoes, and peas will mean even more of the same. Left alone, the fruits finish the seed-growing process and dry up for the year. Various people ask me how the good habits of beans, greens, fresh fruit, and nuts are working out. I stopped at 195 to do a binge or two. Now I am sticking to the basics and avoiding the dessert-ice cream food group. A number of friends have lost weight, too. Medicine Is Often Not a Treatment - Fresh Produce Is Americans are over-prescribed, because it is a pattern and a profit-center for many. Insulin is a problem, not a cure, and I shudder when I hear about alternatives to insulin, which is at least the best worst. Someone wondered about my reference to rubber band surgery for obesity. She was not aware that the digestive system is shut down with a supposedly removable device. That is like hiding the money from an addicted gambler - not going to last. The Fuhrman books, which I read almost every day, have stunned me with the amount of nutrition and appetite suppression in the four groups -
This is most striking. Combining two prescriptions can kill or disable a patient. One prescription alone, like insulin, can start a downward trend. But our divinely engineered bodies (John 1:3) combine food with material recycled in our bodies, into the best possible therapy. Hunger cravings - which I have experienced - let us gain weight without remorse...until later. Binge medicine - leafy greens, fresh fruit, nuts, vegetables - will turn off the belly's desire for sweets, desserts, or too much food. Today I ate plain raw spinach to kill the craving for toasted New York rye bread and butter. That worked, so I fixed a quart of beans and turnip greens, which also worked. I had apples for dessert to forestall a munity in my digestive track. The Big Four listed above - not One-a-Day - have dozens of built-in cures from the basic vitamins we all know. Add lesser-known minerals, plus trace elements, plus the phyto-chemicals in those created and unprocessed vegetables. We need dozens of supplements to equal (perhaps) the benefits of the Big Four, which taste so much better than pills. The least bit of exercise will get our bodies used to regular exertion. Sunshine gives us a dose of Vitamin D3, which combines with nutrition in the body - to do even more.   |
