• I'm often reminded how
healthy gardening is and how good it is for you. It's a wonder the Health Insurance
Companies don't offer subsidies to gardeners or encourage gardeners to join their funds.
Imagine a free pair of Felcos™ for every gardener to join!
• The New York Institute for Medical
Research recently concluded that of 300 Alzheimers patients in a trial that were offered
an extract of Gingko biloba which is the "Maidenhair Tree", about a third of
them improved their ability to remember dates and names of relatives, while a half did not
improve, but did not increase memory loss. Gingko extract is available in health stores or
grow your own. (Clip this to remind you.)
• Annie loves her silverbeet. I love it
because it's easy to grow and the dog leaves it alone. The health conscious tell us it's
rich in iron, but at the Blood Bank I was told that unless you take a glass of orange
juice with it, all you get is roughage. The iron, so essential for your red blood
corpuscle count is locked up, without orange juice.
• That sounds like the
Lime-induced-chlorosis (LIC) that affects our acid loving plants when they get lots of
Adelaide water (pH 8) and grow in our alkaline clay soil (pH8-9). The high pH is so
alkaline that it locks up the iron nutrient and even though there's lots of iron in our
local red clay soil, it's not available to your Camellias and Gardenias, so they go yellow
and their green veins tell you it's time to dose with iron chelates.
• I'm always looking for safe ways to kill
weeds, but I reckon boiling water poured over them has to be the safest and
environmentally sound method of destruction and quite sustainable.
• I'm looking forward to winter, so the
basil can die, the tomatoes stop producing and I can finally avoid bruschetta for brunch
on the weekends, just to use up the surplus. |
