Hone your pruning skills

A maze your friends and family

Miniature knot gardens

Do a topiary accent

Espalier

Bonsai

Pleaching

Garden Structures

Plant a Green Roof

Starting small

Slug repellant

• Rosemary is a potent slug repellant– Rosemary clippings spread under hostas and

delphinium give good protection

• Beer in a low profile container will trap slugs and they will die happy

• A flat board between rows in the garden will trap slugs. They crawl under during the day and you can salt them.

• Avant gardener Aug 07

Bird repellant

• Starlings eat fruit, corn and other plants. Garlic oil sprayed corn and ripening crops repels starlings. As little as 1% garlic oil reduces their appetite by 2/3.

• Avant Gardener June 05

Germination Mix

• 3 gallons peat• 1 gallon loam

(pasteurized)• 1/2C base fertilizer

• Base Fertilizer– 3 pts bone meal– 2 parts wood ash– 1 part blood meal– 2 parts dolomite lime

Grow Heirlooms

Make Heirlooms/ open pollinated Varieties

• Keep the seeds from your favorite hierloom ( easy with Tomatoes as they are self pollinating)

• Plant out the seeds, and get rid of the plants that don’t meet expectations.

• Only keep seed from the best fruit

resources

• http://www.seedsave.org/issi/904/beginner.html

• Loads of other websites• Seed To Seed Susanne

Ashworth• Breed Your Own Vegetable

Varieties Carol Deppe

Wasps

• Are repelled by mint– Mint aerosol “poison free” www.victorpest.com

• Wasp stings can be neutralized by placing a penny on the sting for 15 min. ( I haven’t tried this yet)