It's not what you know but who!

I'm only now catching up with all my e-mails. I'm the happy recipient of Gardening in South Africa's newsletter written by Darlene. For a haphazard gardener like me it's very comforting to know that there is someone out there still keeping track of the seasons and what should grow where.

"lemon butter wouldn't melt in my mouth" Darlene's kitty.

Always jam packed with useful info and tips it has great plant pics too (see the cherries). But my favourite tip by far in this edition is lemon peel as a cat detterrent in your pots. My feline friends have completely misplaced their toilet manners in this wet weather and as you can imagine something has gotta give! For more on this tip go here.

A Match made in heaven

I have finally proven that going to the hairdresser is good for the garden.



Sitting there yesterday with my roots showing, I got to catch-up on all the hairdresser reads. And lo-and-behold in the latest edition of 'Your Family' I came across these useful tips for the green-fingered. Bury bananas under your rose bushes for a potassium kick and keep the snails away by tieing copper wire around your pots. Who knew. My search through 'Glamour' wasn't quite as useful.