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I use milk crates and planter boxes for nematode control. Every year I empty the containers and re-fill with fresh compost etc.
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I use milk crates and planter boxes for nematode control. Every year I empty the containers and re-fill with fresh compost etc.
Hmmm. I'll have a think. Friends of ours use copper rings but I'm not sure I can ring the whole garden in copper.
NEMATODES.
Youre not in Florida so youre limited to when you can grow veggies. Florida has 4 seasons for gardens, and one can be used to till the garden for exposure to sunlight uV rays. So you might try getting a tanning tube (lamp), till your garden soil, and expose the soil to the tanning lamp. 7 minutes is enough to kill the nematodes. You can also try using a steam carpet cleaner to blast the soil. The heat kills the nematodes. I seem to recall that some folks bake their dirt in the oven to kill nematodes and weed seeds. Another trick is to cover the affected area with clear plastic to raise the soil temp to 140 degrees F via greenhouse heating.
Unfortunately we already have some plants growing, rhubarb and raspberry canes in the vegetable patch and various flowers in the bed which is set aside for flowers.
The MILF and the copper ringed garden sounds like a nice story title! but I fear it may not be an effective slug deterrent in practice. I don't really mind picking the slimy pests up, keeping them in a bucket and taking them to the wild grasses along the railway line where they won't be troubling anyone. I should get it established in my routine. I'll look round for a bucket with a lid, one of those fetching white enamelled ones would look pretty.
I can make a story of it. A sweet MILF hires an old gardener, to take care of her odd jobs.
That does sound like an interesting one. I look forward to reading it.
I think I better check the TAMPA GIRLZ when I get home, rather than in this wifi cafe where the other MILFs are gossiping so happily over at their table.
I can write tons of depressing sex stories from what I know about working girls.
Last night I read an article a porn author wrote for a magazine. She says porn is about fantasies that will never happen, porn is like thinking about how youll spend your lottery money after you win. Santa never comes, Real Christmas is always about stuff you dont want from people you care little for.
Oh, I was sort of hoping the sweet MILF and the old gardener might be able to figure out what the other wants for Christmas, if they both like the garden.
Actually I find it's best to make a list at Christmas and tell people what stuff you want so you can pretend to care a little more about them when you open it up on the dreaded day.
(OK, I am a MILF. The real truth is that I go round and find out what everybody wants, buy it and put it on people's tables with some paper and sticky tape so that on Christmas Day everybody is happy and they allow me to get on with the dinner in peace.)
Its dawn now, and looks like I escaped the grips of the cold outside. The temp here dropped to 0 degrees Celcius, 32 F, but cant remain as it is with the Sun rising in the sky. This oughta be the last of the cold for this Winter. Generally Valentines Day is the border tween Spring and Winter around here.
That piece of writing is so vivid, I felt cold too although I'm sitting in spring sunshine in the window of the cafe. I hope you use that for the story about the sweet MILF and the old gardener.
Time to go home (collecting a cream slice on the way to eat surreptitiously while the family are all at work/school).
Thank you! Writing it I mused about Death, cheating Death. So maybe an observation or two about Death might be a tidge more powerful. I could put THAT and other things in the MILFs mouth.
A MILF musing on death, that sounds intriguing. I look forward to reading it.
So I stopped by the Saint Pia Zadora Thrift Shoppe and bought a used grammar manual. This one is different, though, as it attends to arcane grammar problems most of us rarely consider. Lotsa food for thought in it. Like this:
Whats wrong with this sample: INORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION...How in hell is something more perfect than perfect? Should it be a MORE NEARLY PERFECT UNION? The authors recommend adding NEARLY when youre dealing with absolutes but back away from adding NEARLY to PERFECT. They explain that famous idiom is best left alone by smart ass whipper-snappers.
They didnt say but I wonder if MORE had more to it centuries ago, that is, did MORE imply MORE NEARLY?
The answer is to be found not in the meaning of 'more,' James, but in the meaning of 'perfect.' We tend to limit the word to an ultimate state, and so 'more' becomes seemingly non-sensical. But 'perfect' also means, and meant, 'complete' or 'whole;' I think it is in this sense that the phrase is intended. "In order to form a more complete union..."
You bring up an issue I piss about a lot, globalizing definitions to make one word fit every occasion.
Polysemy and nuance are the bane of the simple literalist, James; imagine what happens to them in the face of metaphor, allusion, and allegory!
Simple literalism is the common currency of the world. I've spent many an hour translating college girls to old Nigga mammies.