3 posts tagged “aphids”
QotD: Show us one of your plants.
The soapy water was triumphant! The aphids have retreated!
Unfortunately, the human forgot to follow up with non-soapy water for a week and a half, but there are a few hopeful little growth spurts happening.
I'm working at home today.
Five impossible things before lunch:
- Cobble a web bio for one of my bosses in which said boss comes across as Thee Undoubted National Expert, yet humble.
- Remove aphids from potted spearmint plant by means of water and my bare hands. (Thanks, Lorelei, for the soap tip -- that seems so much less unpleasant!)
- Rotate my right arm in its socket any direction but forward and up. (oh crud, not another injury ...)
- Resist Muki's efforts to clamber onto the table/desk.
- Resist adding a can of coconut milk to last night's dinner [a soup of cauliflower, onion, garlic, leftover canned tomatoes, canned pumpkin I bought last fall, carrots on the verge, the little stump of ginger I at least had on hand, coriander (dried leaf and ground seed), cumin, cinnamon, cayenne, saffron, salt, and a dollop of peanut butter] and oh heck some yellow lentils would be good in there, too.
and the spearmint has been colonized by aphids.
