Walsall Wonderland

I’ve got a tiny little garden, that is made up of two plants, but now there are more!

Every Summer our little yard isn’t safe to sit around in, because of the wasps that like to hang around. Whilst looking up natural solutions to deal with this horrid little pests, I found that planting garlic or onions in one’s garden worked to repel bees and wasps. My fiancé is allergic to bees so this course of action seemed a very good one!

So I set to planting one of the onions in my cupboard, and a clove of garlic that had already sprouted a little. I really love garlic, so tend to buy many bulbs at a time, and then some of them start to sprout before I’ve used them. This sometimes happens with my potatoes, too, which has lead to me dumping the sprouted – and way too soft to eat – potatoes in the compost bin, which lead to where the compost bin is at now… potato plants grown so large I can’t shut the lid anymore…

Anyway, I planted these a while back, and then they started to sprout, and grow, and then grow even more! I’m so proud, because every other plant I’ve had in the past few years had died on me pretty quickly. These seem to be flourishing, well, that’s an exaggeration, they are alive and not looking overly dilapidated. My garlic has just sprouted a tiny baby plant, and the onion today had to be split into five separate plants because they were just one big clump that seemed the worse for wear. I’ll know next time the season’s right whether or not they really keep the bees and wasps away or not.

In the mean time, here’s this post’s knitting pattern… Bees! But little cute knitted ones, not the horrid little stinging ones! These are pretty darn cute, and to be honest, I kind of like the little ‘X’ eyes, because they seem… dead… and I don’t like bees… but these are cute, so… yeah…