Pacific Northwest Gardening: Taming the wild garden, 1 by

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Tillysrat, I am addicted to casting garden leaves with cement. Right now I'm working on a leaf I brought back from Hawaii. Here's a photo that shows a gunnera leaf and pedestal I made last year. You should try it. It's a lot of fun. Murmur, you must make time for the creative side to emerge. I think you might be surprised at how much fun it is to do these kinds of castings. The only non-fun part is when I get to anxious to turn them over and end up breaking them due to poor impulse control. I am getting better at that.

The pennies/slugs thing make sense to me. It's the copper in them. They sell copper strips to put around plants because of the electrolytes in the copper. The slugs can't cross them. Now I need to give the pennies a try.

Where is Laurie? Isn't this her thread? I'll bet she is working too hard. Or maybe I scared her off with my dead crow story.