St Louis Web Designer – tip of the week

Ok this has nothing what so ever to do with designing web sites but a is a tip for all those St Louis gardeners battling with deer infested gardens. This is a nugget of gold found online and provides a very cost effective way of protecting your plants from ” deer digestion” Many web designers I know are very keen gardens so I felt I should share

Ingredients:-

2 eggs
1 cup of skimmed milk
1 cup of water
2 tablespoons of dish detergent

Put all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Pour mixture into a old “409” type spray bottle. Spray all the plants in your garden that the deer like to eat.

The deer are repelled by the smell of rotting eggs… but I have been unable to detect much of a odor. It is cost effective and bio-degradable.

I whip up a batch of this a week and it does the trick

Eye of a St Louis Web Designer

One of my favorite places to visit in and around St Louis is the Shaw Nature Reserve, 30 miles west of Downtown St. Louis. It is a 2,500-acre nature reserve with tracts of tall grass prairie, glades, wetlands, savannas and woodlands near the Meramec River.
Last week the Wildflower wilderness had a fabulous display of cone flowers.

I suspect that they must not be part of a “Deer Diet” to grow in such abundance and think I might try growing them in my garden … gardening is my down time from web designing!

Eye of a St Louis Web Designer

As a web designer I spend a lot of time at my desk “creating” Sometimes it is nice to have a little distraction to let those creative juices flow or just rest the eyes. While my office window offers a great view, an unsual item on my desk is currently acting as my “eye rest”

It is an ant habitat, and watching these industrious little creatures is amazing. In three days they have done this much tunneling!