Gardening tips (was: Re: June's OT Board Dictionary Launched)

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
> Iggy here:
> Oh, another fun little tip:  If you grow roses and have a problem 
with
> aphids, grow garlic in the same bed.  Roses and garlic grow well 
together,
> and the smell will keep the aphids from your roses.  (In fact, one 
nickname
> for garlic is "the stinking rose")
> 
> 
> 
> Iggy McSnurd

A saucer of beer attracts the slugs and keeps them off your lettuces!

They don't like garlic sown in a bed either.

June