Gardening - Did you know?

Did you know that green peppers don't like "Miracle Gro"? According to a gardening expert in our ward, it slows the plant down.

Did you know that inserting toothpicks down into the ground next to the stems of your tomato plants on opposite sides will keep cut worms from killing your plants? They cannot wrap themselves around the plant tight enough to suck the life from it.

Did you know that newly planted vegetables like sugar and Epsom salt? Put a cup of sugar and a half cup Epsom salt around each plant. The sugar will kill the nematodes (whatever they are) and adds sweetness to the tomatoes. The Epsom salt is magnesium, which helps the plants.

Did you know that if you keep a tuna can by each cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, or brussel sprouts plant, as well as at the end of each row, the earwigs will not infest them. Put about 1/2" of cooking oil in each can to catch and kill th earwigs. The older the oil the better. Clean and reuse as needed

Well, that's my gardening wisdom. Actually, a good gardener in our ward gave this advice in a relief society activity about gardening. He says it works for him. We are contemplating planting a few things by our trees that are fenced. Apparently, we are not going to have raised beds in time to plant. So far, I haven't planted any flowers, but my little flowering pear tree has some cute white blossoms as you can see in this picture. It's amazing that it still lives after the deer scraped half the bark off of it!

Well, we woke up to some new snow this morning! 7am, 24 deg. and looks to be about 3 inches on the lawn. Somebody in history was smart enough to color the eggs for a reason!!!!! It's also good camouflage for the Easter bunny, as long as he's a white one! Terry is still snug in bed, so I had to get this on the blog and I forgot to log in on my name. It's going to say posted by Terry, but it really wasn't.

When you were a child, who dyed the Easter eggs in your household? Who hid the eggs? Did you get a new Easter outfit every year?

When I was a child, we had a great time on Easter. We always helped my mom dye the eggs the day before with the usual different cups with different colors. It seems like we used food coloring and vinegar when I was really young, but switched to the pre-made tablets later. We made them colorful like this picture. When we were done, one egg was chosen as the prize egg.

My parents hid the eggs outside (we lived in California) and the prize egg was always hidden in an extra hard-to-find place. Some candy was hidden also, but not much. Whoever found the prize egg actually got a prize (present). It was usually a toy of some kind.

We didn't ever get an Easter outfit that I remember. About the only time we got new clothes was just before school started.

I am tagging Alyssha, Brooke L., and Dave to answer these same questions on their blogs. I'm not sure if that's the right way to tag people, but you get the message.