Summer - Gardening?

Hi All,

While summer is NOT typically the time to start gardening, somewhat cooler weather (think temperatures' in the high 70's and early 80's) might not be such a bad time to do some gardening work.

Some caveats though:
1. drink lots of water and stay hydrated

2. try to do the gardening in the early morning (before 10am perhaps) or the late afternoon (after 4pm perhaps) so the heat isn't too intense for you or for the gardening

3. wear a hat and take lots of breaks while you are gardening...

Okay, that being said, on to the gardening aspects...

Click on this link for a few summer gardening tips from Michael McGroarty - the author and owner of the popular gardening website Free Plants.

This next link is a bit more generic, but still worth reading nonetheless. Click here for an article from Ezinearticles.com.

Got vegetables, then you'll want to view this next site. And while the site is pretty basic (no flashing icons, no pictures, and lots of text), you'll want to click on this link for a brief intro on how to 'Grow Vegetables and Culinary Herbs in Summer'.

Click on this link from PlanetGreen.com - the link is to a site which is 'Your Complete Guide to Summer Vegetable Gardening'. The article discusses summer gardening for tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, eggplant, peppers and corn. Yum!

I've mentioned the Cornell Cooperative Extension in a previous post - but I'll mention it again since it is such a valuable resource. This is the link to Gardening which has other links to the following: Gardening news, Children's Garden, Horticulture Leaflets, Long Island Gardening Quarterly, Farmers Markets (yum) and Gardening Links.

Enjoy the free information and I hope your green thumb gets even greener!

Regards,
Stu

A Healthy Summer is a Fun Summer

Hi All,

With the summer season pretty much upon us, I wanted to do a blog entry on summer fun and summer health. Remember, a healthy summer is a fun summer - for both children and adults!

Click on this link to go to the Nassau County Environmental Health Department site. Here you'll find info on bathing beaches and swimming pools, beach closings/openings, lifeguard info, camp information, and drinking water quality information.

Click here for a full list of Health Department Programs and Telephone Numbers from the Nassau County Health Department.

Here is the Lead Poisoning link from the County Health Department.

Click on this link for the County Health Department link to Healthy Women Have Healthy Babies
Click here for a link to the New York Center for Sudden Infant Death.

And who can forget about our young adults and adolescents? Click here to learn about how to keep them happy and healthy (link is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Note the links toward the bottom of the page on topics as varied as asthma, nutrition, physical activity, obesity, tobacco use and more!

Click on this link for information on how to keep adults healthy. This link is also from the CDC, but in this case it is called Life Stages & Specific Populations. For example, there are links to pregnancy, children, infants and toddlers, adolescents and teens, family, parents, men, young adults and women...whew. Now that is a website.

The site is so comprehensive and thorough, it would take me many, many days to write about this site - it is definitely a good one for finding out about family health!

Finally, it behooves us all to keep our senior citizens healthy - click on this link (again from the CDC) to learn more about healthy aging. Topics here include: health info for older adults, data and stats, healthy brain initiative, resources-publications-press room, states, mental health and again and much more.

Hope this health information helps!
Stu