November 2012

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• Garden Tips: Catch Those Slugs

  11.19.12 | Permalink |Garden Tips| Comments Off on Garden Tips: Catch Those Slugs

  I really dislike those slugs, they destroy some of my plants. I have so many of them in my garden. Someone told me to use beer to get rid of them. When I heard that, I went out to get beer.

  I get some small container and filled it with beer. The pungent smell of beer does attract them. When they drink, I believed they will fall inside the container and get drown. It works really well. I managed to catch 15-20 slugs altogether using 3 containers.

  However this trick can only be done once. I tried the next day, the catch is not that many. I must try when the slugs have forgotten about it.

  
  
  

• Garden Tips: Natural Way To Keep Cats Away

  11.13.12 | Permalink |Garden Tips| Comments Off on Garden Tips: Natural Way To Keep Cats Away

  
  
  

  Not that I dislike cats but cats and garden do not go together. Often I see strayed cats coming into my garden and start to use my garden bed or planter box as their litter box. My plants are affected by it. First they trampled on my plants and their litter destroys the soil PH. A few of my plants died because of these stray cats.

  I learn a natural way to keep them away. I use diluted vinegar and spray it at the pots of the side of the garden beds. They dislike the smell and they will not come near it. You have to spray it once a week to keep them away. So far it works!

• Weekend Shopping

  11.05.12 | Permalink |Garden, Shopping| Comments Off on Weekend Shopping

  Last weekend, I went shopping for flowers. I like to see colors in my garden. When I was at the plants store, I saw so many beautiful flowers. It was not that expensive, most of them were below RM10 per pot.

  I don’t know about you but I really have tough time planting anything from seed. I can plant clone herbs like basil or peppermint from stems. Maybe I didn’t have the patient or the soil is not right.

  Anyway I almost wanted to get all the flowers there. They are so pretty. Here is what I got….

  
  
  

  Now every now and then, I will walk to the garden if I want a rest from my work. It is quite refreshing really since most of the time I work from home. By the way, here is my vertical garden, I got the idea from internet. It is good for those who have very little space for gardening like my home. I hope I can plant more vegetables next! Choy Sum and tomato in the making.