Pea Trellis out of Old Gate

I know it's been a loooooong time since my last post.  A lot has happened - important to know - we moved house.  

We bought a house that had more weeds than grass, and concrete - concrete everywhere!  It was horrible.  So I slowly started to clean it up.  I didn't have a garden the first year, but by the second year I had a small patch prepared.  So, I started with some peas!  Mmm fresh peas...

There were several old gates and fence parts that were overgrown with weeds.   When I found them I thought - "Hey, this would make a nice trellis for peas!"  So I gave it a coat of paint, and I planted some peas.  The new trellis and the peas got along like, well, like peas in a pod!

Get your hands dirty!

Potted Semps

I love sempervivums and sedums and have been growing a lot of them and trying out different combinations in pots for fun.  Here are a couple I really like.  See what you think...

Be Gone You Pesky Fruit Flies!

Are you tired of those pesky fruit flies that buzz around your kitchen - or any other part of your house? 

Have you tried smooshing them with your hand or, swatting them with a fly swatter with no success?  And, they just keep on coming back!  Ugghhh! - I hate it when that happens!
I don't want to use any of those chemical pesticides - that should be labelled humanicides (I'm not sure if that's a word - but you know what I mean).  So, what can I do?
Well, luckily I found a solution!  And it's simple and cheap - like me!

Here's what you do:
Get a small container, a bowl, a cup, a baby food jar- whatever you have handy.  Put some apple cider vinegar or red wine vinegar in it.  Just enough for the little fruit flies to have a nice swim.  Put a couple drops of dishwashing soap in it and mix it up.  Set your swimming hole of doom out where you see the fruit flies.  In a day or two you will have the remains of a fruit fly pool party that you can pour down the drain.

For those of you who are opposed to killing the little blighters here is a blog that shows you how to do it with a funnel and a jar.  Happy hunting!

Get your hands dirty!