Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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Maybe try soapy water, or a garlic spray. Can't hurt, but might help. You'd need to spray the underside of leaves, which would be quite difficult.
Perhaps there are companion plants?
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Oh, how strange. In the credits for "Dear John", Jacqui FitzGerald is called "actor". She is actually the singer.
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But also, take off the ipods/ mp3players when cycling/ driving. Mind total distraction.
I agree too. Actually, hasn't it also been established recently - sadly, with the death of a young pedestrian - that it's not an altogether safe thing to do around roads? Almost on a par with talking on the phone, texting.....
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maybe even a triple feature
with The Dog Whisperer
I love the way it’s usually the people
that are the problem…I thought it was always the people.
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My brother and a cycling mate are embarking on a 1500 km journey across South America from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso today. Previously, they cycled across the United States on Route 66 - over three holidays, I should say - and when he was back in NZ for a while, did the whole length of the country from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island. He has also cycled extensively in Europe - said the most dangerous place was France (he thought he might not survive it).
When he worked in Wellington, he cycled to and from work every day. He lived in Broadmeadows.
He's very fit.
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Lots of basil - it grows fine outside in pots here, not so much in the garden.
Oh, how wonderful! More gardening! Good on you, Damian. Once you get hooked, that's it really. It's a fabulous addiction.
Basil - if you can manage to grow it (try around your tomatoes. The tomatoes aren't affected, but their proximity seems to help the basil), keep picking off the flower spikes, and grab as many growing tips each time you use it. This causes it to branch out wonderfully. I've always finished up as the first really cool nights start setting in with heaps of basil still flourishing. Hint: pick all the leaves, put them in plastic bags, and put them in the freezer. Then you can just break off as much as you want during the winter, and crumble it into your pasta. Yum.
I haven't managed to get out into the garden yet - still hobbling around with wonky ankle - and ran out of cherry tomato seeds. So I'll buy a couple of plants. As they branch out and grow new little branches in the forks (for those who aren't familiar with the term "laterals"), I cut them out and put them in water. After a few days, they sprout roots and you then have new tomato plants.
The other thing is - keep a worm farm. Tiger worms! Nature's little ploughers!
(See! Got me started! Probably never shut up now!)
Our catnip, grown in a pot and now seemingly disappeared, has spread to the garden and every day we get feline visitors cavorting around, chasing one another. Loved that video, Ian D!
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to Heather W.,
Thanks Heather. My theory proven (hopelessly out-of-date) :))
AND I got the wrong Leishman....(sigh)
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Hard News: The Engagement, in reply to 3410,
My sister tells me – because I didn’t hear it – that Mora is also very pro-National Standards.
(Groan)
But also – Petra – I thought Wonder Dog was Phillip Leishman’s gig, and that Jim Mora did Mucking In. Am I seriously out-of-date? (As well as late as with this comment?)
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Islander,
I can only refer to more modern plaids - they would be held at the shoulder by a large silver and cairngorm brooch, and would be tied around the waist, looping to same length as the kilt skirt. (Mind you, I'm talking Highland dancing costume here, but they were fairly traditional). I think perhaps the plaid (which my teacher pronounced "played" - as opposed to "plad" in the other meaning) was a blanket.
Believe me, Highland dancing in summer, before the advent of the new costume, used to be a very sweaty affair!
Forgive total thread hijack!!!!
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Lilith __,
Lol. Trouble is, they'd make a very odd bulge under your sleek skirt. Oh wait....that's right. Don't wear one!