I'm compiling a list of tips to help gardeners in high-altitude gardens.
Some tips may apply to other gardens. If you have a tip you'd like to
share, please email it
to me and I'll add it to the list.
Miniature floral arrangement from the 2002 Flower Show
The first tip comes from club member Janet Zemanek, who doesn't take credit for the idea and said she unfortunately doesn't know who authored the tip.
Mosquito Remedy
Pass this on to anyone who likes sitting out in the evening or when
they're having a cook out. So you don't like those pesky
mosquitoes, especially now that they can carry the
West-Nile Virus?
Here's a tip that was given at a recent gardening forum:
Put some water in a white dinner plate and add a couple of drops of Lemon
Fresh Joy dish detergent. Set the dish on your porch, a patio, or other
outdoor area. I'm not sure what attracts them, the lemon smell, the white
plate color, or what, but mosquitoes flock to it, and drop dead shortly
after drinking the Lemon Fresh Joy/water mixture, and usually within about
10 feet of the plate. Check this out--it works just super!
Janet's son, Bill, is an entomologist and who says, "It does work if your blood sugar levels are normal. The lemon joy imitates the blood sugar odor and therefore they are attracted to it. Because of the soap part of it, the surface tension breaks easily when the mosquitoes try to land on it to 'bite'."
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