Archive for June, 2010
Organic Rat Poison
June 1st, 2010
Organic Rat Poison
This recipe for homemade rat poison is very easy to make. It does not contain anything which is toxic, however, you will need to ensure that your children or your pets do not find it.
Mix equal parts of cornflour with plaster of paris with enough milk or cream to bind into a dough. Roll into balls and place near mice or rat entrances or around places they might visit, like behind the fridge or the stove. This mixture will cause rodents to die just as surely as a toxic commercial bait. A deterrent is a preferable option, however, ...
Magnesium
June 1st, 2010
MAGNESIUM
Magnesium helps protect against heart disease. Up to 150 mg in water effects a reduction of heart disease by 13%.
This is thought to be because magnesium, which links with calcium, tends to clean out the arteries of any calcium
lingering around the artery walls.This would also indicate magnesium to be important in keeping healthy cholesterol
levels maintained, as well as preventing high blood pressure, avoiding strokes, and maintaining a regular heart beat.
Magnesium can remedy cramps and bone pain. It helps prevent the development of arthritis.Take ' Milk of magnesia' to help with these problems, or a little epsom salts, or 'Zechstein Magnesium'.
Magnesium links ...
Medicinal Plants for the Cottage Garden
June 1st, 2010
Medicinal Plants for the Cottage Garden
Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris
Aquilegia is a Ranunculaceae , commonly known as 'Granny's Bonnets', or 'Columbine'. These plants have lovely
bell-shaped flowers which come in various shades of purple, pink, maroon, white, or yellow.
They look very pretty, rising up a couple of feet or so from the ground, with their delicate flowers hanging most
voluptuously from their spindly, slender-stalks. Once you have them in the garden, they will self-seed and give you
more of the same the following year. As it is a perennial, the old plant will surprise you, after it has died down,
by coming up again in the ...
Bring Back the Gardens
June 1st, 2010
Our Lost Gardens, Birds and Medicinal Weeds
Less than twenty years ago, on Waiheke Island in New Zealand, many medicinal "weeds" such as dandelions, plantain, self-heal, comfrey, thistles, red clover, and hundreds of other useful and beautiful plants abounded.
The keeping of cottage gardens helped keep the strains of the then-common weeds from becoming extinct, as well as many flower and shrub species which sadly now are quite rare to see: There was always a nook and cranny to be found, amongst the incredible variety of flowers nurtured in the cottage garden, for the likes of a rogue thistle, or a hypericum ...
