April 7, 2009
· Filed under ongoing experiments, plants/gardening, stuff you don't eat, tips and tricks · Tagged bugs, easy, essential oils, hairspray, mint, repellant, spring, wasps
Brad and I went for a walk this afternoon. It was a lovely warm day, with a few random bugs around.
But not a single dive-bombing wasp in sight.
Perhaps they are still in hiding or were killed off by the recent sudden dips in temperature but I am hopeful…
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April 4, 2009
· Filed under plants/gardening, stuff you don't eat, tips and tricks · Tagged bugs, easy, essential oils, hairspray, mint, repellant, spring, wasps
There hasn’t been a whole lot of baking going on here at Experiments in Baking. I’ve just been too busy and/or too exhausted to even curl up with a cookbook and find something to wrestle (though I have managed to wrestle some stingrays in my dreams). Excessive work always comes in waves for me, and I’ve been riding the crest since the last post.
But yesterday, I was presented with a possibility for another experiment similar to Auntie Rayna’s Magic Acne Cure in that it is an experiment that is NOT meant to be eaten.
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March 20, 2009
· Filed under plants/gardening, stuff you don't eat · Tagged bugs, food, gardening, growing, growth, herbs, plants, strawberries, tomatoes, wasps
It’s that time again, the time when the sun is so warm and inviting, I wish that I had a backyard so I could dig some soil and get my hands dirty. Instead, I finally pulled my alpine strawberry out of the closet where it spent the winter avoiding the freezing temperatures; it looks pretty sad and I’m not sure if it’s going to make it.
I never could get the watering schedule right.
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