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Spring is nearly sprung
Kethera wrote:
Greetings, "Aunty Kreist" wrote in message ... Know what I found helps really well, especially with getting rid of aphids? About a tablespoon of dish soap, mixed with water in a spritzer, spray the plants- it doesn't hurt the plant, but deters bugs. I had heard of this but had never tried it, I would just spray with the water hose and it would take a couple of days for the little aphids to show up again. I think someone else suggested growing mint plants near rose bushes and the mints kept away some insect pests, but I can't vow for the accuracy of this. Anyone else tried it? I should try the dish soap/water spritzer concoction on my herbs as well. See if it helps them too. I've also heard about shaking on some garlic powder on certain herbs and veggies to deter some animal pests (ex: bunnies) from munching on them. Ciao, Kethera Try spraying dish soap on herbs? What exactly do you use the herbs for? Psst, want a little soap with your basil? I'll bet that dish soap tastes great in tomato sauce. - theoneflasehaddock |
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Theoneflasehaddock writes Kethera wrote: Greetings, "Aunty Kreist" wrote in message ... Know what I found helps really well, especially with getting rid of aphids? About a tablespoon of dish soap, mixed with water in a spritzer, spray the plants- it doesn't hurt the plant, but deters bugs. I had heard of this but had never tried it, I would just spray with the water hose and it would take a couple of days for the little aphids to show up again. I think someone else suggested growing mint plants near rose bushes and the mints kept away some insect pests, but I can't vow for the accuracy of this. Anyone else tried it? I should try the dish soap/water spritzer concoction on my herbs as well. See if it helps them too. I've also heard about shaking on some garlic powder on certain herbs and veggies to deter some animal pests (ex: bunnies) from munching on them. Ciao, Kethera Try spraying dish soap on herbs? What exactly do you use the herbs for? Psst, want a little soap with your basil? I'll bet that dish soap tastes great in tomato sauce. - theoneflasehaddock The rain washes it off, and so douse the tap water, you do wash your garden produce when you bring it in don't you Flase. -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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"Theoneflasehaddock" wrote in message oups.com... Kethera wrote: Greetings, "Aunty Kreist" wrote in message ... Know what I found helps really well, especially with getting rid of aphids? About a tablespoon of dish soap, mixed with water in a spritzer, spray the plants- it doesn't hurt the plant, but deters bugs. I had heard of this but had never tried it, I would just spray with the water hose and it would take a couple of days for the little aphids to show up again. I think someone else suggested growing mint plants near rose bushes and the mints kept away some insect pests, but I can't vow for the accuracy of this. Anyone else tried it? I should try the dish soap/water spritzer concoction on my herbs as well. See if it helps them too. I've also heard about shaking on some garlic powder on certain herbs and veggies to deter some animal pests (ex: bunnies) from munching on them. Ciao, Kethera Try spraying dish soap on herbs? What exactly do you use the herbs for? Psst, want a little soap with your basil? I'll bet that dish soap tastes great in tomato sauce. - theoneflasehaddock It's the secret ingredient. |
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"Theoneflasehaddock" wrote in message oups.com... Try spraying dish soap on herbs? What exactly do you use the herbs for? Psst, want a little soap with your basil? I'll bet that dish soap tastes great in tomato sauce. Well, I wouldn't be pouring dish soap on, I would be spraying on a dishsoap and water combination on them. And as someone already pointed out, I would rinse them off before utilizing them. Some of the herbs I use for cooking, some for spell work, some for decorative scenting (satchels, pot pourri, etc.). Even if I didn't spray soap on them I would still want to wash them off prior to consumption as there are a lot of various animal and insect pests that visit the garden. Plus neighbour cats prowl around and sometimes utilize the garden as something other then what I intended it for, so for sanity sake it is imperative to clean off all herbs, fruit and veggies I or my family intend to imbibe. :-) Take care, Kethera |
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:10:40 GMT, "Kethera" wrote:
Some of the herbs I use for cooking, some for spell work Cross posting from alt.religion.wicca to rec.gardens is a tad weird, but being in wicca or any religious cult is weird anyway. Please, keep your hocus-pokus crap where it belongs, not in a newsgroup for gardeners. If some person from alt.pedophile posts that they use lettuce for garnishing their victims genitalia, it doesn't mean that gardeners should have to listen to their crap either. Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. |
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Questions wrote in
: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:10:40 GMT, "Kethera" wrote: Some of the herbs I use for cooking, some for spell work Cross posting from alt.religion.wicca to rec.gardens is a tad weird, but being in wicca or any religious cult is weird anyway. Please, keep your hocus-pokus crap where it belongs, not in a newsgroup for gardeners. If some person from alt.pedophile posts that they use lettuce for garnishing their victims genitalia, it doesn't mean that gardeners should have to listen to their crap either. Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. Or you could just crawl back into whatever brainwashed Jerry Falwell hole you came out of. And stop trying sodomize yourself with lettuce. Read and understand: Although you are a big ass, that does not mean your ass is big. Your mouth is big, put the lettuce there. Vengefully yours, God |
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Awwwww look, it had to answer itself to get support. It's a sure sign of a
no lifer wankmeister. "Answers" wrote in message ... Questions wrote in : On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:10:40 GMT, "Kethera" wrote: Some of the herbs I use for cooking, some for spell work Cross posting from alt.religion.wicca to rec.gardens is a tad weird, but being in wicca or any religious cult is weird anyway. Please, keep your hocus-pokus crap where it belongs, not in a newsgroup for gardeners. If some person from alt.pedophile posts that they use lettuce for garnishing their victims genitalia, it doesn't mean that gardeners should have to listen to their crap either. Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. Or you could just crawl back into whatever brainwashed Jerry Falwell hole you came out of. And stop trying sodomize yourself with lettuce. Read and understand: Although you are a big ass, that does not mean your ass is big. Your mouth is big, put the lettuce there. Vengefully yours, God |
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In article , Questions
writes On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:10:40 GMT, "Kethera" wrote: Some of the herbs I use for cooking, some for spell work Cross posting from alt.religion.wicca to rec.gardens is a tad weird, but being in wicca or any religious cult is weird anyway. Please, keep your hocus-pokus crap where it belongs, not in a newsgroup for gardeners. If some person from alt.pedophile posts that they use lettuce for garnishing their victims genitalia, it doesn't mean that gardeners should have to listen to their crap either. Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. Amazing a gardener who doesn't love horse pucky... best thing in the world for roses... cant get enough of it personally.. Don't tell me you buy that dreadful commercial fertilizer in bottles and packets.. Your Garden is to pretty for a compost heap, and you throw the lawn cuttings in the dustbin... A gardener is a gardener no matter what their spiritual or religious choices are. The one thing they always have in common is gardens. You are nearer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth.... Please note it doesn't mention which god.. -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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Greetings Shez,
"Shez" wrote in message ... In article , Questions writes Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. Amazing a gardener who doesn't love horse pucky... best thing in the world for roses... cant get enough of it personally.. This reminds me of something that was JUST in our local newspaper. Someone had written in to complain that dog owners had to pick up after their companions but that the people who ride horses around town weren't required to clean up after them. Now... I live in a town with a lot of rural businesses like fishing, farming, etc. and horses are just one of the familiar animals one sees around here, however you rarely see riders on the back farm roads, and almost never in town. I couldn't understand what this person was complaining about. Since I was very young my mother and grandmother would go out and collect the horse droppings with a shovel and bucket and spread it around our gardens. We'd treat it like a gift. Heck, most people have to go and BUY manure for their gardens. Anyways... someone else wrote back to the paper to ask what that person's problem was and gave their name in case the complainer saw any more poop so that they could call and they'd go and get it themselves. It made me smile. Don't tell me you buy that dreadful commercial fertilizer in bottles and packets.. Your Garden is to pretty for a compost heap, and you throw the lawn cuttings in the dustbin... I've never used commercial fertilizer. My daughter collects my used tea leaves and egg shells plus all our other veggie/fruit waste to compost outside. I've also never thrown out lawn cuttings. We do have another great thing here where I live... we have compostable pick-up once a month from spring until roughly November, sometimes December. So all cut vines, bushes, tree limbs, dead house plants, etc., even lawn cuttings if people choose to, will be collected, no limits, and taken to our local landfill site (this is NOT a garbage dump). Then once a year in spring the locals can go and collect compost from there for free to use in their gardens. Otherwise it is sold around the lower mainland. A gardener is a gardener no matter what their spiritual or religious choices are. The one thing they always have in common is gardens. I'm not a professional gardener by any stretch of the imagination. But I love my simple garden, my flowers, herbs, fruit trees, and small veggie patch. I have to admit, though, it was outside among the trees that I, as a youth, really felt a connection with the devine. So I suppose my gardening is a means of spiritual connection for me, but it's not the ONLY reason I do it. Even if it was, what's wrong with that? You are nearer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth.... Please note it doesn't mention which god.. Well, I honestly feel that way. Especially when I get down on my hands and knees and really start digging around in the dirt, trimming, grooming or just checking things out for pleasure, I enter such a state of peace. An almost zen-like state occurs, I love it. Bright Blessings, Kethera |
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In article a1AVd.35380$hN1.14975@clgrps13, Kethera writes
Greetings Shez, "Shez" wrote in message ... In article , Questions writes Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. Amazing a gardener who doesn't love horse pucky... best thing in the world for roses... cant get enough of it personally.. This reminds me of something that was JUST in our local newspaper. Someone had written in to complain that dog owners had to pick up after their companions but that the people who ride horses around town weren't required to clean up after them. Now... I live in a town with a lot of rural businesses like fishing, farming, etc. and horses are just one of the familiar animals one sees around here, however you rarely see riders on the back farm roads, and almost never in town. I couldn't understand what this person was complaining about. Since I was very young my mother and grandmother would go out and collect the horse droppings with a shovel and bucket and spread it around our gardens. We'd treat it like a gift. Heck, most people have to go and BUY manure for their gardens. Anyways... someone else wrote back to the paper to ask what that person's problem was and gave their name in case the complainer saw any more poop so that they could call and they'd go and get it themselves. It made me smile. That story would make me smile to, and my Grandma, and my Dad would have been out their like a flash with a bucket and spade to... Horse manure was a gift from heaven.. Don't tell me you buy that dreadful commercial fertilizer in bottles and packets.. Your Garden is to pretty for a compost heap, and you throw the lawn cuttings in the dustbin... I've never used commercial fertilizer. My daughter collects my used tea leaves and egg shells plus all our other veggie/fruit waste to compost outside. I've also never thrown out lawn cuttings. We do have another great thing here where I live... we have compostable pick-up once a month from spring until roughly November, sometimes December. So all cut vines, bushes, tree limbs, dead house plants, etc., even lawn cuttings if people choose to, will be collected, no limits, and taken to our local landfill site (this is NOT a garbage dump). Then once a year in spring the locals can go and collect compost from there for free to use in their gardens. Otherwise it is sold around the lower mainland. What a great idea, our city douse something similar but uses the compost in parks and traffic Islands I wish they would open their compost heaps to the locals... there would be a lot of happy gardeners their. We can take our old Xmas trees to be mashed up and the wood Chipping's can be bought for a tiny tiny amount. The local council gave everyone with a garden a composter, a big black plastic bin with a door at the bottom.. It reduced the amount of compostable material being added to land fill sites by quite a lot. One of the best tips I have for compost is to get the man in your life to go out and water it...preferably night time, lets not shock the neighbours male urine acts as a catalyst and the compost heap heats up a lot quicker and composts a lot faster, its a lot cheaper than buying chemicals to improve your compost heap... Only men I am afraid, it doesn't work with female urine, apparently its the hormones that men produce that do the trick. A gardener is a gardener no matter what their spiritual or religious choices are. The one thing they always have in common is gardens. I'm not a professional gardener by any stretch of the imagination. But I love my simple garden, my flowers, herbs, fruit trees, and small veggie patch. I have to admit, though, it was outside among the trees that I, as a youth, really felt a connection with the devine. So I suppose my gardening is a means of spiritual connection for me, but it's not the ONLY reason I do it. Even if it was, what's wrong with that? Nothing wrong with it, a garden is always a special place to the gardener, and that connection with the earth is relaxing, spiritually lifting and good for your body and soul. You are nearer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth.... Please note it doesn't mention which god.. Well, I honestly feel that way. Especially when I get down on my hands and knees and really start digging around in the dirt, trimming, grooming or just checking things out for pleasure, I enter such a state of peace. An almost zen-like state occurs, I love it. I know what you mean, I feel much the same way. Bright Blessings, Kethera -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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"Shez" wrote in message ... In article , Questions Amazing a gardener who doesn't love horse pucky... best thing in the world for roses... cant get enough of it personally.. If horseshit is good for roses then yours must be the size of bowling balls -- Talesin- The Bad Boy of Witchcraft (tm) To give Tales his due, he is a talented and able witch. However he is a negative energy and will show you the "highlights" of a negatively applied system. http://home.kc.rr.com/pendragonsloft © 2005 by Talesin- The Bad Boy of Witchcraft. All rights reserved |
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"Questions" wrote in message
... Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. Well, I didn't actually start the cross-post, that was "theoneflasehaddock", and in fact I removed the reply to some alt.conspiracy.jfk that he'd placed on the message as I totally didn't see the relevance. Rec.gardens on the other hand... I felt it may not be out of place to reply here. My posting was not an attempt to promote my personal practices on anyone, merely a reply to a topic that even gardeners might have suggestions to. In fact, I didn't even mention Wicca, you just assumed because of where else I was posting to. I'm sorry you are offended but I'm not sorry for posting. What are your suggestions for keeping insect pests out of the garden? Goddess Bless, Kethera |
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"Questions" wrote in message ... On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:10:40 GMT, "Kethera" wrote: Some of the herbs I use for cooking, some for spell work Cross posting from alt.religion.wicca to rec.gardens is a tad weird, but being in wicca or any religious cult is weird anyway. Please, keep your hocus-pokus crap where it belongs, not in a newsgroup for gardeners. If some person from alt.pedophile posts that they use lettuce for garnishing their victims genitalia, it doesn't mean that gardeners should have to listen to their crap either. Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. Do you try and stop people of any other religion from posting to your newsgroup, or is your bigotry reserved solely for Wiccans? Jani |
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Questions expounded:
Cross posting from alt.religion.wicca to rec.gardens is a tad weird, but being in wicca or any religious cult is weird anyway. Please, keep your hocus-pokus crap where it belongs Please keep your bigoted opinions out of all newsgroups. -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked ****************************** |
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"Questions" wrote in message ... On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:10:40 GMT, "Kethera" wrote: Some of the herbs I use for cooking, some for spell work Cross posting from alt.religion.wicca to rec.gardens is a tad weird, but being in wicca or any religious cult is weird anyway. Lucky for us we aren't wiccans. Or morons, like you. Please, keep your hocus-pokus crap where it belongs, not in a newsgroup for gardeners. Tough shit, ****tard. We're here, choke on it. Whatcha gonna do about it? If some person from alt.pedophile posts that they use lettuce for garnishing their victims genitalia, it doesn't mean that gardeners should have to listen to their crap either. Nobody cares what you do for jollies. Well, maybe the law, but here's hoping the parents get you first. Go away or stop talking about your wicca bull. Make us, ****retch. You insult everyone's intelligence by just suggesting that horse pucky should be given credence. Disprove us, whore's spawn. -- A link for YOU! http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/ |
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