The Many Uses of Vinegar In My Garden

Kill weeds and unwanted grass by pouring full-strength white distilled vinegar on them. Spray bottle works especially well in crevices and cracks of walkways and driveways.

Ants take off the other way when you pour vinegar on their playground.

Discourage those $%^&*^%$# cats from getting into the kids’ sandbox with white distilled vinegar.

Preserve cut flowers by adding 2 tablespoons white distilled vinegar and 1 teaspoon sugar to a quart of water in a vase.

Clean stains in clay, glazed and plastic pots by soaking them for an hour in a solution of half water and half white distilled vinegar.

Gets rust off spigots, tools, screws or bolts by soaking the items overnight or for several days in undiluted white distilled vinegar.

Avoid skin problems after working in the garden by rinsing your hands in white distilled vinegar.

Sanitize outdoor furniture and picnic tables with a cloth soaked in white distilled vinegar.

Kill *&@#$% slugs by spraying them with a mixture of 1 part water and 1 part white distilled vinegar.

Clean plastic patio furniture with a solution of 1 tablespoon white distilled vinegar to 1 gallon of water.

Good Saturday #Gardenchat Morning After the Rain

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.~Langston Hughes

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.~Hosea Ballou 

"The Garden" Every Mornings Hope

Last night’s greening

Gesturing me to quietly step,

Barefoot across the driveway

Where “The Garden” smiles

I catch a glimpse of every  

Morning's hope again revealed to me.

Morning Thoughts

 "Morning is the best of all times in the garden.  The sun is not yet hot.  Sweet vapors rise from the earth.  Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten.  Birds call to one another.  Bees are already at work."-  William Longgood

 "The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the day.  First, there are the scents, which seem even more generous with their offerings than they are in the evening."-  Rosemary Verey

 "The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life."-  Doddridge

 "Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun."-  Thomas Jefferson - Mr. Jefferson rose early everyday for 50 years.

 "Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness."- Flint

 Dawn is friend of the muses. amica .Aurora Musis

 "Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it."-  Henry David Thoreau

 "Angels in the early morning may be seen the

dews among.

Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying.

Do the buds to them belong?" -  Emily Dickinson

 "Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,

Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:

The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,

On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;

Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,

Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume."-  Phyllis Wheatley, A Hymn to the Morning

"Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure."-  C. C. Colton 

 "I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day."-  F. Frankfort Moore

 "When in the fresh mornings I go into

my garden before anyone is awake,

I go for the time being into perfect happiness." -  Cecilia Thaxter

 Waking up in the morning, I vow with all beings

to be ready for sparks of the Dharma

from flowers or children or birds.-  Robert Aitken

 "And even the sun

in dawn chorus sings,

a celestial melody to the earth

below." -  Tjaden

 "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
-  Marcus Aurelius

 The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.  Don't go back to sleep."-  Rumi

 Poems writen upon awakening at dawn are called aubades.

 "The year's at the spring

And day's at the morn;

Morning's at seven;

The hillside's dew-pearled;

The lark's on the wing;

The snail's on the thorn;

God's in His Heaven;

All's right with the world!"-  Robert Browning