RE: Garden Journal Weekly, 17th November 2021
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I struggle with everything! If it's not being eaten, it's being frazzled...
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I struggle with everything! If it's not being eaten, it's being frazzled...
Sometimes I feel exactly the same! I am trying to grow basil now, and it looks so beautiful but every day it's being eaten by something all the more. Maybe slugs. I thought the pungent basil smell would deter them, but no!
I find that so much gardening advice and information comes from the UK and US. They'll tell you to plant things like onions and garlic between your vulnerable plants because they repel the bugs. Then I come out at night to find the earwigs just as happily feasting on them as well as the vulnerable plants. I guess when the climate is tough, the bugs are tough too, so pungent won't deter them. 🤣
Now I wonder if some the local plants might not deter pests better? We live in an area of fynbos. Very hardy but pungent plants. You are giving me some good ideas now! Maybe I should try some basil next to a protea plant 🤣
Do let me know the results of the experiment if you try it. Not that I've any idea what a protea plant is...😅
Oh yes sorry! The protea is the South African national flower and grows natively in my region. I will see if my experiment works and do a write-up of the hopeful success. Fingers crossed.