Posted by John Savage on August 21, 2010, 3:42 am
On his "Vasili's Garden" tv gardening program last week (Ch. 31, tvs in
Sydney), Vasili toured the garden of an Italian migrant who was proud to
be no longer troubled by fruit fly. He had rigged up dozens of plastic
drink bottles hanging everywhere, mostly, it seemed, in pairs, and each
upright and without its cap and containing a few cm of Coca Cola plus a
tablespoonful of honey. He said he has fruit flies queuing up to dive in
and die, and they prefer this to his fruit trees. As I surmise, the Coke
must function as both lure and insecticide. There was no mention of ants
finding the hanging honey pots alluring; maybe they have better taste?
I knew there had to be a use for that stuff, besides for cleaning old
coins and demonstrating its spectacular reaction with Mentos mints.
I wonder how Pepsi compares? Or would things go better with Coca Cola?
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John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
Posted by FarmI on August 21, 2010, 4:00 am
> On his "Vasili's Garden" tv gardening program last week (Ch. 31, tvs in
> Sydney), Vasili toured the garden of an Italian migrant who was proud to
> be no longer troubled by fruit fly. He had rigged up dozens of plastic
> drink bottles hanging everywhere, mostly, it seemed, in pairs, and each
> upright and without its cap and containing a few cm of Coca Cola plus a
> tablespoonful of honey. He said he has fruit flies queuing up to dive in
> and die, and they prefer this to his fruit trees. As I surmise, the Coke
> must function as both lure and insecticide. There was no mention of ants
> finding the hanging honey pots alluring; maybe they have better taste?
> I knew there had to be a use for that stuff, besides for cleaning old
> coins and demonstrating its spectacular reaction with Mentos mints.
> I wonder how Pepsi compares? Or would things go better with Coca Cola?
Ah bugger! I really really like Vasili but can't see him. He seems to have
disappearred from the channels I can get. Must go some of his DVDs.
I wonder if we'll get the sodding Election tonight and have to miss out on
Gardening Australia. I'll be cross if they don't show it. I voted weeks
ago so it's done and dusted as far as I'm concerned and I don't give a hoot
who we get since we'll still get screwed.
Posted by SG1 on August 21, 2010, 4:24 am
>> On his "Vasili's Garden" tv gardening program last week (Ch. 31, tvs in
>> Sydney), Vasili toured the garden of an Italian migrant who was proud to
>> be no longer troubled by fruit fly. He had rigged up dozens of plastic
>> drink bottles hanging everywhere, mostly, it seemed, in pairs, and each
>> upright and without its cap and containing a few cm of Coca Cola plus a
>> tablespoonful of honey. He said he has fruit flies queuing up to dive in
>> and die, and they prefer this to his fruit trees. As I surmise, the Coke
>> must function as both lure and insecticide. There was no mention of ants
>> finding the hanging honey pots alluring; maybe they have better taste?
>>
>> I knew there had to be a use for that stuff, besides for cleaning old
>> coins and demonstrating its spectacular reaction with Mentos mints.
>>
>> I wonder how Pepsi compares? Or would things go better with Coca Cola?
> Ah bugger! I really really like Vasili but can't see him. He seems to
> have disappearred from the channels I can get. Must go some of his DVDs.
> I wonder if we'll get the sodding Election tonight and have to miss out on
> Gardening Australia. I'll be cross if they don't show it. I voted weeks
> ago so it's done and dusted as far as I'm concerned and I don't give a
> hoot who we get since we'll still get screwed.
I just switched off the ABC they were doing a news bulletin 2 dead in
Afganistan & some fws voting. No GA tonight.
>
Posted by John Savage on August 21, 2010, 4:26 am
>> On his "Vasili's Garden" tv gardening program last week (Ch. 31, tvs in
>> Sydney), Vasili toured the garden of an Italian migrant who was proud to
>> be no longer troubled by fruit fly. He had rigged up dozens of plastic
>Ah bugger! I really really like Vasili but can't see him. He seems to have
>disappearred from the channels I can get. Must go some of his DVDs.
Here in Syd, tvs has been pushed way out into the never never. On my set
it's Ch 82. I did go to a lot of trouble setting up favourites, but some-
thing happened and it all reverted to the settings that they were born
with, so that's how I've left them.
>I wonder if we'll get the sodding Election tonight and have to miss out on
>Gardening Australia. I'll be cross if they don't show it. I voted weeks
>ago so it's done and dusted as far as I'm concerned and I don't give a hoot
>who we get since we'll still get screwed.
You've had plenty of time to record lots of shows to fill up a predictably
boring weekend of television! If they don't show GA this weekend, then at
least you can be sure we'll see it next weekend. :-)
I think old recordings of Vasili's Garden are showing on SBS, and the new
series on TVS .... or the other way 'round.
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John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
Posted by John Savage on August 21, 2010, 4:44 am
>> On his "Vasili's Garden" tv gardening program last week (Ch. 31, tvs in
>> Sydney), Vasili toured the garden of an Italian migrant who was proud to
>> be no longer troubled by fruit fly. He had rigged up dozens of plastic
>Ah bugger! I really really like Vasili but can't see him. He seems to have
>disappearred from the channels I can get. Must go some of his DVDs.
Go to http://www.vasilisgarden.com and click on "Episodes" and
it seems that you'll be taken to an up-to-date archive of 23 episodes,
http://vimeo.com/user1435121/videos/sort:date
I'm on dial-up so won't be watching too many 25mins vimeo clips!
There's another gardening program on TVS, too. "The Garden Tap" I think.
The weekend papers don't publish the TVS schedule in their tv guide, so
I rarely catch the TVS programs.
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John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
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> Sydney), Vasili toured the garden of an Italian migrant who was proud to
> be no longer troubled by fruit fly. He had rigged up dozens of plastic
> drink bottles hanging everywhere, mostly, it seemed, in pairs, and each
> upright and without its cap and containing a few cm of Coca Cola plus a
> tablespoonful of honey. He said he has fruit flies queuing up to dive in
> and die, and they prefer this to his fruit trees. As I surmise, the Coke
> must function as both lure and insecticide. There was no mention of ants
> finding the hanging honey pots alluring; maybe they have better taste?
> I knew there had to be a use for that stuff, besides for cleaning old
> coins and demonstrating its spectacular reaction with Mentos mints.
> I wonder how Pepsi compares? Or would things go better with Coca Cola?