What's in the bag ? a huge and healthy cucumber !!! See my article on how to combat cucumber and cucurbit flies with this simple technique. It was the most effective way I've found of fruit fly prevention.
http://www.greenidiom.com/fruit-fly-control-by-exclusion.html
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Jokingly dubbed Chez la Colombe, this bird restaurant offers unpretentious meals of kitchen scraps and seeds, and is part of a whole strategy of bird friendly garden managment... and its not as if birds are never a danger to your plants. Here I explain how I deal with scratching thrushes and probing ibis
http://www.greenidiom.com/birds-scratching.html This, cost me nothing because the piece of thick wood was lying on the beach and the rope I had already from a previous renovation job. Yes its got way too many square knots, but it holds me while I swing upside down with my feet in the air looking up into the Acacia tree's complex branches. Always wanted to be able to do that !
The idea of the swing came from ADHD research a long time ago. Many sailors apparently have ADHD. The balancing act of staying vertical on a ship occupies the part of the brain that causes trouble, and allows focussed calm thinking so one theory goes, and that is why sailors are model citizens on board and create havoc on land ! (smile). I do indeed LOVE sailing. On a calm sea my mood goes from slight boredom to the most unbelievable calm bliss. When you seldom know peace its a lovely lovely feeling. I'm not in the mink, manure and yachting class, I used to work as a hostess on booze cruises and volunteer as temporary crew for the race practices at the yacht club in Table Bay. I thought of this on this horrible day where my BPD has been playing havoc with my brain and hurting everyone within range. I'm studying the science of happiness. Can you believe that ? Just because I have to. The MOOC on EdX allowed me to bootstrap myself out of a downward spiral of toxic cortisol poisoning, insomnia, night terrors and starvation, on a fist full of meds that didn't work, and level out, like a plane saved from a nose dive. I haven't been thinking about it too hard for a fortnight and have started nosediving again. Today I had a reality check. I recommend this course to anyone with mood problems, not as a cure but as a management technique. It saved me, that and a video by Sapolsky on baboons and stress from the Goodwood library if you are near a library in Cape Town you could order it. Here's the EdX course: https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:BerkeleyX+GG101x+1T2017/ I've finally posted pictures from last spring on http://edenfound.weebly.com/septembers-wild-flowers-at-the-cape.html I hope this will be the first of many wild flower albums, under this linking page
http://edenfound.weebly.com/wild-flowers.html as so far its not been easy getting out to take the pictures. Most of my plant colour albums are taken in and around where I live or work as a gardener. They are arranged by colour then month and their linking page is http://edenfound.weebly.com/plant-colours.html I find making the albums such a blast. It is so many things, marveling at the beauty and arrangements made by unknown forces, thinking about design possibilities. like mixing paint that grows and lives. By the way the hairy brownness on the right is my friend Oyster. He particularly likes the trips which end up at the beach, but as you can see he is engrossed in meadows too and enjoys himself almost anywhere. |
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