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!