{"id":5625,"date":"2014-03-31T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:59:46","slug":"la-hort-met-2014-march-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/la-hort-met-2014-march-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"L&A Hort met 2014 March 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 March 19th at the Napanee Fire Hall community\/training room.<\/p>\n

The guest speaker was all about tools and care and maintenance of them, followed by general Q&A and gardening tips from the audience of 28+ people.<\/p>\n

Tips: sharpen a hoe on both sides (this was a non-standard hoe). The speaker preferred to use hand files (chainsaw files).
\n– clean after every use
\n– sharpen when necessary
\n– use vegetable oil to stop rust after they have been cleaned
\n– the dandelion picker was a great tool!
\n– earwigs – water and soap spray (dawn soap) on flowers to deter them;
\n wood ash worked into flower and veg beds help deter the bugs;
\n another earwig tip – put out a 12″ section of hose to collect earwigs as they look for cover, then dump into soapy water bucket to get rid of them – repeat as necessary
\nuse a solution of 1:100 ammonia in water to deter slugs on hostas before the hosta leaves come out.
\n– ants – aspertane sweetner solution; corn meal; borax solution with jam in bottle caps around the infested area – may take a long time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society (Napanee’s Garden Club), met on Wednesday 2014 March 19th at the Napanee Fire Hall community\/training room. The guest speaker was all about tools and care and maintenance of them, followed by general Q&A and gardening tips from the audience of 28+ people. Tips: sharpen a hoe on both sides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}