Newsflash
Are gnats annoying you out in the garden? Well, Sylvana of 'The Obsessive Gardener' found this remedy: I found my answer - vanilla! Apparently gnats don't like it, and I have some so why not give it a try? I took about 1/8 a teaspoon real vanilla extract and rubbed it onto my neck, ears and forehead, grabbed the camera and went back outside. I was outside for the same amount of time I had been before - no gnats! And bonus, I smell like a cookie! |
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| Monday, 05 February 2007 12:19 | |||
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GardenWorld has an article on the health benefits of gardening. Among the good things you can expect from your gardening endeavors is sunlights effect on producing Vitamin D in your body and elevating your mood, staying mentally alert and reducing stress, and building a social network. The advice given is to approach gardening as any other athletic effort: warm up and stretching, trying to use good form in actions such as lifting, etc. Sometimes we think so much of the plants and flowers we forget how much of a physical activity it is for us.
...until the next day, that is!
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