Jul
17
How to get rid of ants?
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In Asia we have the tendency to hang a plastic bag somewhere in our kitchen and throw our garbage in it. Next thing you know your whole kitchen is full with what we call "sugar-ants", those tiny little ants running around everywhere.
How to get rid of ants?
This is what I have been doing successfully:
- Dishes go straight into the dish washer (yes, I have a dishwasher…). If you don’t have a dishwasher, make sure to rinse everything at once and make sure dishes are done as soon as possible.
- Everything sweet has to go in an airtight container. If the container still attracts ants: put it in the fridge.
- Bleach towels or disinfecting wipes are great for lazy people like me: wipe your kitchen counters with bleach towels every day/ There are 35 towels in my "disinfecting wipes" towel box, so it lasts about 1 month.
- Get rid of garbage: it’s dirt simple: ants only want to eat and tiny as they are, they really only need a little piece of food to bring in their whole extended ant colony
Jul
12
Who has a potato head?
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Are we talking international politics, or are we just talking about our garden, or both?
Hubby loves potatoes so thanks to:
- the lack of decent international politics and
- global warming…
Hubby is going for a second crop:
- the peas are all harvested,
- the potato heads are sprouting and
- knowing that potatoes need about 100 days to be cultivated after planting…
If you stick your potatoes in the ground now, you should have a harvest around half October… that should be possible still since it’s about ages now that the first nights of frost started first of October!
Jul
5
Stop using pesticides please!
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I can hear you say; but if I don’t use pesticides, I cannot admire my garden, my flowers, my vegetables…
I just want to point out that mankind has been farming for ages without any pesticides and we are still around on this planet, so the prove is there that pesticides are not needed in your personal home and garden supply.
If you do feel like using pesticides, just know that sooner or later it gets into your drinking water. or it gets into the rivers with the fish you eat. Or you just breath it in when spraying… Just be prepared: you really don’t want to die of metastatic liver cancer.
