On Mar 9, 10:00*pm, "Muddymike" wrote:
"Gopher" wrote in message
For my sins I have been landed with the production of monthly topical tips
for our local gardening club. - such as the planting of a garlic clove
under a rosebush to ward off aphid invasion.

Wow!!!! I didn't know that.

I always told the trick was to stroke the roots with the feather of a
virgin seagull captured at midnight of the full moon when the wind
was in the easterly quarter. Of course I could have misheard.