[BlindTlk] BlindTlk Digest, Vol 148, Issue 1

Wed Oct 3 13:33:29 UTC 2018

Ella I had a garden about 15 years ago.  I planted beans and tomatoes and I
ended up with 20 bushels of tomatoes and 30 bushels of green beans.  That's
something that requires daily attention.  We had to give away 50% away so we
wouldn't lost them to the birds and rabbits.  My garden was about 100 square
foot.  

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Today's Topics:

   1. Photos question (Ericka)
   2. Working in a Garden (Ella Yu)
   3. Re: Working in a Garden (Judy Jones)
   4. This week on Eyes On Success: Working on Accedssibility at
      Google (BlueSkies)
   5. Re: Working in a Garden (Julie Johnson)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 13:45:34 -0500
From: Ericka <dotwriter1 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [BlindTlk] Photos question
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Hey I have noticed some features are back with the photo album now that iOS
12 arrived. It?s easier to make albums again and add to existing albums. Has
anyone figured out how to edit the name of an album once it?s created? I
don?t find a rename option.

One is missed labeled and another is misspelled and I want to fix things.
After all the point of labels is so we know it?s in there.

Ericka Short
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Madison WI 53704
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 from my iPhone 6+

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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:18:23 -0700
From: Ella Yu <ellaxyu at gmail.com>
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Subject: [BlindTlk] Working in a Garden
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Hi all,
I'm supposed to start working in a garden soon and I'm wondering 
if it's possible for people who are completely blind.  I will 
have assistance.
Thanks in advance.

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:15:28 -0700
From: Judy Jones <sonshines59 at gmail.com>
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Hello, Ella,

I have a brown thumb hahahaha but I know of blind people who are excellent,
experienced, gardeners. You can get your gardening questions answered by the
gardeners on the nfb-krafters-korner list. Go to www.nfbnet.org.

Judy
sent from the BrailleSense U2 Mini 

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> Hi all,
> I'm supposed to start working in a garden soon and I'm wondering 
> if it's possible for people who are completely blind.  I will 
> have assistance.
> Thanks in advance.
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 22:02:22 -0600
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Subject: [BlindTlk] This week on Eyes On Success: Working on
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This week's episode of Eyes On Success is:

1840 Working On Accessibility At Google (Oct. 3, 2018) 

This week hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with a married couple, Victor
Tsaran and Karo Caran, both of whom are visually impaired and both of whom
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 06:20:50 -0500
From: "Julie Johnson" <julielj at neb.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Working in a Garden
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Yes, I garden both at home and in the community garden.  There are some 
things that aren't practical, like using a hoe to chop weeds, but other than

that it's pretty much the same as for sighted people.  Learning what is a 
weed and what is a vegetable/flower took some practice.   I prefer to set up

the garden so I don't walk through where the plants are.  The square foot 
method works well.  I also have a few raised beds.  I plant some things in 
the landscaping so they can vine on the fence or porch railings, much easier

than setting up trellis and then tearing it down at the end of the season. 
My main garden area at home is only 4 feet wide and about 30 feet long, 
which allows me to be able to walk around the outside of the plants and 
reach in to pull weeds or collect vegetables without walking through where 
the plants are.  The community garden space is a big rectangle of 15 feet by

30 feet, where I do have to walk through rows.  I have to be super careful 
not to step on the plants, especially early in the season when they are 
tiny.  It's doable, but not my preference.

I tried different labeling methods in the garden, but never did find 
anything that worked well and lasted throughout the gardening season.  I 
have a few things in flowerpots and those I just stick in a braille plastic 
label right in the dirt.  For the rest of the garden I keep notes on the 
computer to help me keep track of what is where, when it was planted and 
anything else I want to remember.  I don't label seed packets.  I just use 
Seeing AI or something similar.

Knowing when the vegetables are ripe can be done by touch.  It's not much 
different than picking out produce in the grocery store.  You have to be 
familiar with the vegetable to know what you should check, size, firmness, 
ease of removing from the vine etc.  That all comes with practice.

It took a number of years before I could reliably get things to grow and 
produce.  I'm not naturally gifted at growing things.  Now my general 
strategy is to plant 10x more than I will want at the end, so after I kill 
off most of it, I'm still left with a reasonable amount.

Happy gardening!
Julie
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Subject: [BlindTlk] Working in a Garden

Hi all,
I'm supposed to start working in a garden soon and I'm wondering
if it's possible for people who are completely blind.  I will
have assistance.
Thanks in advance.

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