Tips for the gardener... for AJJ

In my garden there are.......................

Insects

Most gardeners like to have a healthy flourishing garden, but for many pests can be an issue.

So this page in my journal, features some garden tips I cut out from a magazine, where there was a list of what to grow, where to plant it and how it would help our plants to grow.

It is a kraft paper journal so I used a base paint of watered down acrylic white, followed by a flower stencil coloured with distress inks.

French Marigolds.

Plant near tomatoes and their pungent smell

 will keep white fly away.

My parents used to grow these and I can say from experience that

the smell is very unpleasant

But the tomatoes were fantastic.

Nasturtiums

Planted beside brassicas, the white flies choose to lay their eggs on the leaves. instead of your cabbages.

A big plus is that we can eat the flowers. 

Poached Egg plants

Loved by beneficial insects like hoverfly,

 the kind you want to encourage in your gardens

, their larvae will eat the blackfly and aphids.

I'm sure we have all been given ideas from gardening friends and its much better than the  harmful chemicals we see on sale in the shops.

A page for Art Journal Journey

for my theme of

In my Garden there is..................

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