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03-13-2011, 02:00 PM
#181
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: West Texas
Posts: 34
I love to cook and bake, and for my son's birthday last week, I decorated his birthday cake (a Thomas the Tank Engine cake). I also enjoy scrapbooking, but I find it's not as simple or economical as quilting. You have to buy the pictures, the paper, the embellishments, stickers, brads, books, etc. It can get really pricey just to make one good page.
03-13-2011, 02:05 PM
#184
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Illinois & Wisconsin
Posts: 824
Originally Posted by CarolLady
Suzi! Have you tried scraping (w/a potato peeler) Irish Spring soap on your plants? I do this about once a month or so and it keeps the deer and rabbits from eating my hosta. I use the bits of soap left over after bathing. Also, treat for slugs or they will make my hosta leaves "lacy".
Sorry! The Irish Spring does NOT keep the slugs away. I have to buy slug stuff. If you need the name, I can go out to the garage and get it for you. It really works. Do it when the hosta is fully leafed and then maybe twice in the summer. (Wisconsin)
03-13-2011, 02:15 PM
#186
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Missouri
Posts: 601
Originally Posted by stitchofclass2
Originally Posted by CarolLady
Suzi! Have you tried scraping (w/a potato peeler) Irish Spring soap on your plants? I do this about once a month or so and it keeps the deer and rabbits from eating my hosta. I use the bits of soap left over after bathing. Also, treat for slugs or they will make my hosta leaves "lacy".
ok thanks.
03-13-2011, 02:23 PM
#187
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Melbourne,Fl.
Posts: 2,619
This has been an interesting read. Quilting is my favorite pastime but I also read, cross stitch,like to try new recipes,sew and do crafty things, and when I can be with them --LOVE, LOVE spending time with my granddaughters.
03-13-2011, 02:37 PM
#189
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Largo FL
Posts: 917
Originally Posted by CarolLady
Originally Posted by stitchofclass2
Originally Posted by CarolLady
Suzi! Have you tried scraping (w/a potato peeler) Irish Spring soap on your plants? I do this about once a month or so and it keeps the deer and rabbits from eating my hosta. I use the bits of soap left over after bathing. Also, treat for slugs or they will make my hosta leaves "lacy".
Ny dad used to cut the bottom two inches off a milk jug and put beer into it and lay it in the garden attracted the slugs and they drowned. He also rigged a milk jug bottom to a light outside and put in dishwater. The light attracted the bugs and they fell in and drowned in the soapy water.
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