Gardeners

Now is our time.  Spring has sprung, warmth is in the air, green shoots are on the wing . . . hyperbole is all about.

See you at 58 Myrtle this Friday at 9 am or at the bins in Peace Park, and we’ll be in the road gardens in Myrtle, Shepherd and Rose streets ’til 12. We will:

-  Fight them on the beaches, we will never surrender;  I’m talking cockroaches in our compost bins in the park and the streets.  We’ll mount some defences, including:

PREVENTION

To repel cockroaches, wipe surfaces with a mixture of 100ml water to 10 drops of eucalyptus oil. Wipe straight eucalyptus oil around drain holes and external door frames.
Place cucumber peelings and/or bay leaves in areas where cockroaches are a problem. Replace when dried out.

So we’ll pick some green bay leaves from the half dozen bay trees in our road gardens and put them in the bins.

-           Get ‘em drunk – cockroaches that is:

Soak a rag in beer and place in a shallow dish overnight in an infested area. In the morning you can dispose of the drunken cockroaches and silverfish.

-           Shock n awe: Mix 2/3 cup of mashed potato (boil potato in water and mash in its own juice) with 1/3 cup of baking powder, roll into marble sized balls and place in cupboards.  Cockroaches will eat the balls and gas will build up in their guts from the baking powder / potato mix.  Because cockroaches cant burp, their stomachs explode and they die.  The message here is: be grateful we burp.

With careful management we may manage to find some left over beer in the bottle with which to assist ourselves appreciate our works.

There’s a beaut young lemon tree and a variegated cumquat to plant, too, and we’ll prepare the verge beds for them.

M