Went to an interesting garden on Tuesday, well the talk was interesting
and the plants not quite so commonplace as the average garden.
Dr primrose (that's actually his name) in High Wycombe was telling us
about not trying herbal remedies for self medication (he's a micro
biologist of course) but he did tell us some ordinary remedies. One of
which was to combat those carpet beetles/bugs that leave their casings
on the carpet looking like rice grains. Apparently they are very
plentiful this year and one proven remedy is to crush Sweet Woodruff and
place it onto the carpet. It deters the moth from laying eggs into the
carpet or clothes.

Known as Ladies bedstraw for that reason i assume it used to also be put
into mattresses in the past.


Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk