Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

Hi,
I was going to suggest the same thing as Wood Nymph. People with dogs who do not want to use snail and slug bait to kill snails use a bowl of beer to attract snails and slugs at night. The snail get into the beer and drown.

If you go with the beer method make sure you put some fly wire over the bowl so the snails drown. Because if the snails die in the bowl the Blue Tongue Lizard will not eat them.

The last home I lived in I had a Blue Tongue living to my backyard and every time I went to hang up the washing it would come out to say “gidday.” I also feed the Blue Tongue insects.

Where I live now, I have beautiful Water Dragons that live around my swimming pool. When I’m doing some gardening they follow me around because I dig up earth worms and feed it to them. The other thing they love to eat is Huntsman Spiders.

PS. Do you have a name for your Blue Tongue. I called my Blue Tongue “Rex”. When I sold my last home a made sure the new owners new about Rex so they wouldn’t harm him.

GardenersCardiff answers:

1 compost pile from organic material
2 egg carton fill compartments with dirt and plant seeds in them then the seedlings when big can go into garden(we start our tomato,peppers and flowers this way in the spring to save on buying from the store)
3 buddy burner @ yahoo easy to build
4 margarine container fill with first aid or emergency supplies(matches bandages,small candle,batteries,ASA,)stuff is altogether if you need it for an emergency
5 2 litre pop bottle bird feeder/milk carton bird feeder
buddy burner is fun and easy to make at least google it its not silly

GardenersCardiff answers:

Fowl such as capons, geese, larks, and chickens were usually available to the lord and his family. They would also dine on other meats; beef, bacon, lamb, and those living close to water may have regularly dined on salmon, herring, eels ands other fresh water fish. Fish would either be sold fresh or smoked and salted. Wealthy society could afford large quantities of milled flour and other meals made from grain. Dairy products such as cheese and butter could be seen on the manor table.

Medieval peasants, on the other hand, had a much simpler diet available to them. Most of the wheat they harvested went exclusively to the market, and peasant breads were made from barley and rye, baked into dark heavy loaves. Ales made from barley would quaff the thirst, as would water drawn from the well, sweetened with honey. Peasant society got what little proteins they could from peas and beans that would be added to bread and pottage.

Pottage was often favored over bread, because it did not require the grains that the miller guarded closely. Onions, cabbage, garlic, nuts, berries, leeks, spinach, parsley were some of the foods that would combined to make thick soup. Raw vegetables were considered unhealthy and rarely eaten, but anything that could grown, with the exception of known poisonous plants, were added to the mix. Lucky families may have added salt pork or fatty bacon for flavor and protein. Poorer society depended on these simple foods for survival. It was ironic that after the Black Death ravaged societies, even the poor could find wheat available.

Medieval diets lacked vitamins A, C and D and were not high in calories, making the regular drinking of ale a necessity for most. The only positive part of these diets, were that they were somewhat “heart-smart;” low in fat and high in fiber. But the medieval world was usually a very hungry one.
Meat was very popular. Although it had weird names, (fried pig’s head) it tasted good. Beef and mutton (lamb) were eaten a lot. Mutton is a kind of sheep. Venison, or deer meat, was eaten a lot too and so were poultry, game, and wild birds. The best way of preserving meat was to sprinkle it with salt. This worked, but not very well, so when the meat rotted, people would pour a sauce on it, and eat it anyway! Yuck!

Vegetables were also popular. People liked eating vegetables like onions, garlic, and herbs that they would pick from the castle garden. These were eaten with meats. During Lent, (Fridays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays) people would eat fish.

Poorer families had to eat things like dark breads, oatmeal, and meat (mostly pork). Wealthy families ate meats like rabbit and game (birds