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RemediesforYourGardenthatAren'tTrue!

Good-morning my dearest friends & followers and Welcome

to Tips From the Garden Saturday Post!

I hope that you have a bit of time on you Saturday to 

have a sit and read my new TipsFortheGarden. So have a cup of your

favorite coffee like Me! or Tea too! Your favorite chair and if they is

sunshine maybe you can take you laptop on your patio and 

enjoy the nature of outside. 

For today's Saturdays tips I am going to tackle the myths and remedies 

that seem to be passed down from generations and from books, advice 

for gardeners around the world backyards large or small. 

Even as small as mind which is my patio. 

~So here we go~

1-If your plants have wilted or gone yellow.

Should you water them?

Its natural to most to want to water their plants when they see a plant

wilting or yellow but water isn't they answer. I have discover this one myself

Unless the soil of the plant is dry, the plant doesn't need any water!!!

What is properly wrong with the plant is overwatering, which can

be a common problem. 

2-The Myth of Bury Banana peels to help your plants grow  

Well this is an interesting one my dears Why? because I put this in my

compost all the time and they make great compost after they break down. Anyway

about the myth some have said that if you bury the Banana peels under 

your plants, roses and flowers it will give the much needed potassium the plants need?

Well this Myth is is true, however by bury under your plants directly it will 

also suck up the nitrogen's that the plants,roses and flowers need to grow!

So the best thing to do as I do is put them in a compost and use the 

amazing dirt that they make afterwards. That is safe. I have been doing this

for Years my dears. 

3-The Myth that Beer makes Plants grow better. 

Well the only thing that I have heard that is good in the 

garden for the use of Beer is killing those nasty slugs that eat your leafy plants

however, if you have a partner that loves his/her Beer I don't know if this is

the way to go. And as for watering or pouring beer on your plants it is 

basically a was of a good refreshing drink. 

4-The Myth of don't water your plants in the heat of the Day!

This has been an interesting question that I have always wondered from the time

when I first started gardening many many years ago. What I have found on this

is it is actually true if you water you plants in the heat of the day. You will find that the 

leaves of your plants will start to get brown spots and will not do very well. 

if you don't have any other time but the heat of the day, you can water the plant near

the bottom base so that it just hits the dirt and not the plant. 

Although the best time to water your plants is either in the morning before work

if you can or in the even after work which is probably the best for most of you folks.

I hope this has been helpful.

 5-The Myth of the Planting Marigolds to keeps the bugs away

Well it seems that there has been alot of Scientific work done on these beauties 

and from what I found there is no Scientific evidence that shows that the 

Marigolds will keep the bugs or slugs away from your plants or other types of flowers.

However, there are great gardener's that will swear by these beauties,

it isn't a magical fix. I know because i have tried this beauties for many years

and had now luck other that they to have been eaten by the bugs too~

I have found other ways to protect my plants, flowers and when I have had 

marigolds to protect them too. 

I have found one fun thing about them today doing this post that you all might 

find interesting. On a plus side the petals of these beauties are 

edible and they are quite the attract of pollinators of for the garden for

Bees, Butterflies and Hummingbirds too. 

6-The Myth of Coffee grounds to make your soil richer 

Well have you ever heard of adding coffee grounds to your plants dirt?

Well I did it for a few years but after some research I discovered that its 

really best to keep your coffee ground in a can, then when you are ready put them

in your compost bin. [note. I have done a post on my own compost bin if you are interested]

wendyjargonncom.blogspot.com/2014/10/tipsfromthegarden-composting.html

The reason is this some of the plants that you put the coffee grounds on 

don't response well. Also it take a while for the coffee grounds decompose.

7-The Myth of using a Mixture of dish-soap and water the kill bugs  

Well this sounds very similar to another post I did that is quite poplar it seems.

I am not sure why? but its been on my most popular post for quite some time. 

This post is 'How to get rid of Mold off your Bee Balm Plant'

Which I talk about using a mixture of dish soap, water & baking soda. Well I have found 

that it really does work however you have to be careful how much you put on the leaves

to get rid of the mold. Why? well over the years too much of the mixture will burn the leaves

as any mixture with dish soap. So as for the myth that using it to get rid of bug or mold it does

work, but you have to take care on how much you put on at a time. So that you don't burn the 

leaves of your plant. I would look for a mild soap. 

I does work for killing the Aphids too; which can be very harmful to a plant like 

the Jasmine. They are so beautiful when they bloom with their white scented tiny flowers,

but the tiny black aphids bugs love them too. So the soap mixture works too. 

with this one all you need is water and soap. 

At some point I do plan on doing a post on how to deal with Aphids 

[note hear is my old post on 'How to get rid of mold off your Bee Balm Plant' it might help]

wendyjargonncom.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-to-get-rid-of-mold-off-your-bee.html

For now just spray the mixture of mild dish soap and water on the leaves lightly and watch

to see how the leaves are doing if they are turning brown or if the black dots which are the

Aphids bugs are dieing. I hope this helps.

Well I hope that all of these Gardening Tips for my Saturday

helps you all my dearest friends & followers 

I love you all very much 

YOUR WENDY

Mummy Infant Who Waits For Eternity

Mummy Infant Waits for Eternity~

6-month old mummy

For this Post my dear friends & followers I am going back 500-years in Greenland in a glimpse of the culture of the past. I hope that you find this to be interesting as myself my dears. 
The tale starts over 40-years ago, when two brothers went hunting in Greenland and happened to stumbled upon a few grave sites that were over 500-years old mummies. These grave sites were naturally preserved by the Arctic environment inside an old Inuit settlement of the Qilakitsoq.  These men found these settlement beneath an outcrop of rock, and there were two separate graves that contained eight bodies in all. There was 6 women and two young children.  Everyone in the tomb was dressed in traditional hunting clothes at the times. In '1972 the two brothers found a gem when they found what they thought to be a family or two families buried in the ice 500-years ago. It seems that the Qilakitsoq is an old Inuit settlement on the Nuussuaq peninsula on the west coast of Greenland around the north of Arctic Circle. The two brothers had found eight bodies in the tomb and all were fully dressed.

The bodies of the woman and the small
infant that was only 6-months old

The brothers felt they were left in such a particularly fantastic state of preservation because of the location where they were buried, the dry air and the low temperatures. They also discovered that the eight bodies; six woman & two children were equipped for a long cold journey ahead for hunting and for their after death too. Since their tribe beliefs at those ancient times, it was necessary to prepared for death and after death. So there are still so questions What happened to these woman in the very cold parts of Greenland 500-years ago? 
1-these women weren't buried accorded to family traditions
2-they were buried without men, which is very odd because it was against the Inuit customs.
3- All the six women in the tomb had tradition tattoos, for the time that they were buried but one.
4-Their stomachs were full as they discover later, and their diet had came from the sea.
5-It seems by the conditions of the bodies, it revealed that the woman had worked with animal skins and sinew.
6-It seems that cause of death was illness, for two of the women and the older child. 
7-Also it wasn't clear what the illness was that caused the deaths of the two women and the older child. And it wasn't clear if they had died all at the same time?
8-As I had said there were two children and only the older child had died of an illness... Well there was an even younger child of only six-months old - a baby boy. which appears to have been buried alive!

The Baby boy waiting for his
birth mother to reach for him in
the afterlife 

In my opinion the reason why this baby boy was found buried alive, with his face upturned next to his mother as you can see with one of the images, is they believe that after death in the afterlife they will come together and she will be able to reach again for her baby in the after life. So in a sense the Qilakitsoq people customs of the Inuit was if there is no-one there to take care of him or another woman from the tribe is available to care for the baby boy either because of the situation, it was their tradition to bury the child alive or suffocate him within the tomb with the others. Then place him by his birth mother. It seems that even though they hadn't done any tests on the baby mummy, all felt the baby Inuit was taken under the tribal customs at the times 500-years ago which indicate that the tribe women probably suffocated or bury the baby boy alive after the death of its mother. These were the traditions of the oldest preserved mummies of the Qilakitsoq mummies tribe.

Archaeologists have dated the mummies to be around 1475AD and all the bodies were stacked on top of each other with layers of animal skins in between. As to the age of the woman in the Tomb they were able to reveal that by the teeth. In one Grave it contained 3 woman, a four-year old child and the six-month baby boy. Two of the women were young and one was between her 20's - 30's the other 25's - 35's years of age. The final woman was between 40 - 50 years. 
The second tomb contained three female bodies. These women were in their 50's while the final woman was between 18-21 years of age. 

It seems that as far as the tattoos on the woman they were tribal as customary among the adult Inuit woman. Five of the woman in the tomb, faces were tattooed.  They all consisted of either blue or black lines arching over the eyebrows and over the cheeks too. Three of the woman also had lines tattooed beneath their chins. And the remaining two had a dot that was tattooed on their foreheads which indicated that some of the woman could have been married in the group.
As far as their health, all weren't in perfect health. The child of four-year that they x-rayed had revealed to have a deformed pelvis & was suffering from Calve Perthes disease - which

destroys the thigh bone preventing him from walking.   Then there was one of the older women that had an imperfectly-healed collar bone which may have limited the use of her left arm. She also had cancer in the back of her nasal passage which had spread, affecting her eyes and ears. 

The two oldest women in the Tomb could have possibly been sisters. Well there was so much more information, but that would be a much longer post. I hope that you enjoyed the tale I love you all my dears friends & followers

YOURWENDY

The Life of Riley B.B. King

The life of Riley B.B. King-

Sadly we lost our beloved blues King this last Thursday night in Las Vegas. On May 14, 2015 the legendary guitarist known as B.B. King whose velvety voice and expressive style, brought us the blues spanning  some six decades  died at age 89. He is left by many children [15 children some have said] and was married twice. It was said his itinerant musician's life didn't allow him to be much of a family man. Quote from B.B. King
'I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more," he told co-writer Ritz. "Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters. I never stopped moving. But I never stopped loving them or caring for them."
His daughter, Patty King had announced two weeks before he died that he was in a home hospice care suffering from dehydration. It seems that B.B. King finally started showing signs of his age in the last year of his life of living with Type ll diabetes. There was another sign that the people closest around B.B. king and that was that he was a bit shaky at the show in St. Louis. This prompted his reps to issue an apology for 'A performance that did not match Mr. Kings usual standard of Excellence.' King had fell ill in early October after a show at the Chicago's House of Blues due to dehydration and exhaustion which prompt a rare cancellation of the remaining of his tour. After that he was hospitalized in April in Las Vegas before he died this Thursday May 14, 2014. 

We will all miss you B.B King 

I thought I would give you a bit of the Riley B.B. King beginnings; he was born on September 16, 1925 on a cotton plantation between Indianola and what is now Itta Bena, Mississippi. He sang with an church choirs as a child and learned to play the basic guitar from chords from his uncle a preacher. When he was just a young boy, he would play on the street corners for dimes. Meaning that he would earn more in one night of singing on the corner street than he did than one week working in the cotton fields with his family.  His parents had split when he was a very small child and he lived for a few years with his mother in the Mississippi hills. Unfortunately his mother died when he was only nine and he was left alone until his father Albert King found him a few years later. During this time he was in the cotton plantations in Indianola earning only 22.50 a week. Later Kings farm boss loaned him money to buy his first guitar and signed him up for his first music lessons. This is where he quickly developed as a blues player. During World War ll Riley King enlisted the Army but, later was released because he drove a tractor that was essential to the home-front occupation.
After that B.B. King, hitchhiked to Memphis, Tennessee which is home to the music scene that supported aspiring black performers. He had stayed with his cousin Bukka White who is one of the most celebrated blues performers of his time. Kings cousin Bukka schooled Kings further in the art of the blues and help lead him to the right directions. He got his first break by performing on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program out of West Memphis leading to steady engagements at the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis in 1948.

Riley B.B. King and his beloved Lucille

Of course I couldn't finish this post in honor of the great B.B. King without talking about his beloved Lucille.

It was during the era that King first named his beloved guitar Lucille, in the mid-1950's when he was performing at a dance in Twist, Arkansas when a few fans became unruly and started a fire. King had ran out of the building forgetting his guitar, and then risked his life to go back in to get it! He later found out that it was cause by two men fighting over a woman named Lucille knocked over a kerosene heater that started the fire. And that is how the name Lucille came about as B.B said ' To remind myself never to do anything that foolish'. He had used various models of a Gibson and each one he named Lucille. Then in the 1980's the Gibson officially dropped the model number ES-355 on the guitar only that King used. This became the custom-made & signature model named Lucille that was exclusively manufactured for the 'King of Blues' Riley B.B. King.' So even if he is gone you can have one of his signature Lucille's and even if he's pasted he will always be in our hearts of hearts. His music will always be alive in our hearts. I hope that 

You will keep a special place in your heart for this special 

Man of Blue the King of Blues

B.B. King's 'The Thrill is Gone'