Somebody sent me an email today with tips for using cucumbers. Tip#4 on the list was about slugs. See below.
Never heard of it...how 'bout you guys?
#4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.
Slow days in the garden today here in SW Virginia - bring on the cucumbers!.
Last hosta dividing and planting last Sat.: Chinese Sunrise, Elegans, Green Fountains, Gold Edger, Invincible - all extras that I cleaned out of a bed a month ago and never got around to dividing until last weekend.
Replanted about 150 Brugmansia cuttings this morning - to root for the winter. ONLY broinging in 30+ big pots and all those sticks. Did have a bloom on the bananas again this summer.
Transplanted three Japanese maple seedlings into patio pots.
Transplanted 25 oaks into the transitional plan with my hybrid poplars - and four 4 year old yellow buckeyes from seed!
How many more years will you be able to dig those banana trees to over winter them!!!! LOL
Please post pictures of what you bring in like you did last year. You have to have better lightening than most of us do to be able to keep your cuttings and potted plants alive and thriving while you wait for spring.
