[Sca-cooks] Period gardening

[MtLion]

Pardon if stepping on toes.  And forewarning I may be eating filet of
(leather) soul with the following:

Inchworms in a blender or ground up via other means, goes against some
traditions of killing creatures, coming from another list this question
arose, of how to avoid such a matter.  Discouraging the critters via smoke
or cayenne-soapy-water spray or smoke sounds very plausible.  Anyone have a
natural recipe for soap?

I read somewhere, moons ago, that critters munching on plants like to go for
the weakest plants/least healthy plants.  Thusly if you notice one plant is
being munched on but not the others, a thought would be to discourage the
critters on just that plant, as opposed to the whole crop/garden section.
May save a few sheckles on spritzing.  I've no actual hands on experience
with this, merely ramblings of a bard who is slowly getting into
horticulture & herbalism.

Ld. Gottfried Krimmelbein - The Badgering Bard
MtLion at spdway.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Jenne Heise <jenne at mail.browser.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Sca-cooks] Period gardening (was easy to grow herbs)


> > Disclaimer: I haven't personally tried this, but gramma said it works.
Pick
> > some of the inchworms off.  Whir them in the blender with some water
until well,
> > um, blended.  Spray on plants. 'Course she also advocated smoking a
cigar and
> > blowing the smoke on various insects, too.
>
> I believe (have to check my sources) that both these methods are
recommended in Hyll's
> _Gardener's Labyrinth_, in which case they are among the few 16th century
pest control
> recommendations from that volume that would actually do anything...
>
> --
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise       jenne at mail.browser.net
> disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
> "It's no use trying to be clever-- we are all clever here; just try
> to be kind -- a little kind." F.J. Foakes-Jackson
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