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For the Best Gardeners in the Cardiff Area

   Jan 05

Your Questions About Gardening

Lizzie asks…

If you found poop loaded with gold flakes in front of your door, what would you think/do?

You get up to get the paper in the morning, and you see a large piece of poop absolutely loaded with gold flakes right as you exit the front door. What do you do or think?
Any serious answers? I can’t figure out who did it, it looked as if they did it right there sometime overnight. I don’t believe anyone could have seen it as it’s rather dead around here overnight.

GardenersCardiff answers:

The question is did they intend that special dropping for you or you just got the lucky dropping on random chance.

If they did not intend for you to get the gold dropping, they must not like you for one reason or another. Do you have pets that do in their yard? Do you look at any certain neighbor funny? There could be many reasons for the target.

If they made sure you got the gold flakes, you should really be puzzled. Expect the person that did this to be watching or checking up on you. Here’s what I suggest. Dry it out outside where it won’t get any moisture/rain. Then when fully dry and light, break it up seperating all the gold flakes. After you clean the flakes and your hands get crafty. Use the flakes to fill in your address numbers or put that bling on a garden gnome or something. Once the offender sees this they will be even more puzzled then you. Also pay attention to neighbors that drink the alcohol with gold flakes in it or anyone who goes out to eat at restaurants that would foil their desserts or food.

Or either way you can save it in a airtight container or heavy duty clear bag and take it around to all the neighbors and ask about it. It would be good if you learned about people body/eye movements, if lying) before you did this.

Sandra asks…

What is the myth behind gnomes? Why do people place them in their yards and gardens?

Please let me know in very deep details! I’m doing this for a story called “The Stone”

GardenersCardiff answers:

Gnome
A Gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its small stature and subterranean lifestyle. According to Paracelsus, gnomes are the most important of the elemental spirits of the classical element earth, and they move as easily through the earth as humans walk upon it. The sun’s rays turn them into stone. In other traditions, they are simply small, mischievous sprites or goblins. Some sources claim they spend the daytime as toads instead of in stone.

Often featured in Germanic fairy tales, including those by the Brothers Grimm, the gnome often resembles a gnarled old man living deep underground and guards buried treasure. Because of this, Swiss bankers are sometimes disparagingly referred to as the Gnomes of Zürich. Gnomes feature in the legends of many of central, northern and eastern European lands by other names: a kaukis is a Prussian gnome, and barbegazi are gnome-like creatures with big feet in the traditions of France and Switzerland. In Iceland, gnomes (vættir) are so respected that roads are re-routed around areas said to be inhabited by them. Further east, tengu are sometimes referred to as winged gnomes.

Individual gnomes are not very often detailed or featured as characters in stories, but in Germanic folklore, Rübezahl, lord over the underworld, was sometimes referred to as a mountain gnome. According to some traditions, the gnome king is called Gob.

Rudolf Steiner, and other theosophists before him, lectured at length on gnomes, and especially their supportive role in the development of plant life (and biodynamic agriculture). Rupert Sheldrake has written a good deal about morphogenic fields, an idea Terry Pratchett used in his Discworld books many times.

The word gnome is said to derive from the New Latin gnomus and ultimately from the Greek gnosis, meaning knowledge. According to myth, gnomes hoarded secret knowledge just as they hoarded treasure.

Garden gnomes

The first garden gnomes were introduced to the United Kingdom in 1847 by Sir Charles Isham, when he brought 21 terracotta figures back from a trip to Germany and placed them as ornaments in the gardens of his home, Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire. Only one of the original batch of gnomes survives: Lampy as he is known, is on display at Lamport Hall, and is insured for one million pounds.

Garden gnomes have become a popular accessory in many gardens, although they are not loved by all. They are often the target of pranks: people have been known to return garden gnomes “to the wild”, most notably France’s “Front de Liberation des Nains de Jardins” and Italy’s “MALAG” (Garden Gnome Liberation Front). Some kidnapped garden gnomes have been sent on trips around the world (the travelling gnome prank).

A sub-culture exists among those who collect garden gnomes, which is frequently lampooned in popular culture.

Garden gnomes were made in various poses and pursuing various pastimes, such as fishing or gardening. More recently, garden gnomes have been depicted indulging in indecent exposure or having sex.

Gnomic Culture

* The Nome King (spelled without the silent “G”) and his nome subjects nearly transformed Dorothy Gale and her friends into bric-a-brac in Ozma of Oz, the third book in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series. The character appeared several times in later books in the series.

* J. R. R. Tolkien used the word gnome in his early work The Book of Lost Tales for a fictional people later called Ñoldor. He dropped the term in his published works, since he found the gnomes of folklore to be so unlike his High Elves as to confuse his readers. “Gnomes” also refer to the Valar.

* Gnomes are one of several races on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, where they are also called goblins. The Nac Mac Feegle are sometimes considered an ethnic subgroup of gnomes.

* Nomes (again without a “G”) are a race of tiny aliens who have been living on Earth for centuries in Pratchett’s trilogy of children’s books The Bromeliad.

* Gnomes and Secrets of the Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet are illustrated guidebooks to the fictional creatures, and resulted in the spin-off animated series David the Gnome. These are originally written in Dutch, where gnomes are called kabouters.

* In some games, including Dungeons & Dragons, EverQuest, Horizons: Empire of Istaria, and World of Warcraft, Gnomes are a short race of humanoids closely related to Dwarves, and are exceptionally adept at tinkering and mechanics. This often results in they and their allies having technologies not normally found in fantasy settings, such as firearms or robot-like beings. See also Gnome (Warcraft).

Linda asks…

How to improve soccer skills?

I am going out for my school soccer team which isn’t too competitive, but I really suck at soccer! What are ways I can improve enough to not only make the team, but be a great player? PS: running isn’t an issue here. I’m an XC runner

GardenersCardiff answers:

Kicking the ball against a wall will indeed help your ball skills, but just move with the ball as well. Kick it at targets, trees, gates, garden gnomes etc. Use both feet. Run through cones set about 3m (10 feet) apart, with the ball at your feet. Then try again with your other foot. Try juggling the ball as well. Kick it with different parts of your foot – instep, side of your foot, just back of your toes.

But whereas you are a cross country runner, buddy, you need to improve your game speed as well. Two things you can do. First, about five wind sprints about 20-30m (70-100 feet or so) once or twice a week will really help. Second, and most important, watch a lot of football, see how plays develop, think about what you’re going to do with the ball before you receive a pass. Try always to have two options in mind, so that once you have the ball, you can make an instant decision to pass, shoot or dribble.

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