DEAR HELOISE: Do you have a list of flowers that deer do not like? My daughter lives in the country, and the deer even tore down hanging baskets to eat the flowers.
- Roberta T. in Ohio
DEAR READER: Deer have been known to eat just about anything. It’s best to visit your gardening center or home-improvement store for ideas of plants for your part of the country, or call your county extension agent. Here are some plants you might try:Perennial flowers, like cornflower, iris, tiger lily, bellflower and peonies.
Annual flowers like alyssum, marigolds, snapdragons, geranium, blue salvia, sunflowers, morning glory and wax begonias.
Vines like honeysuckle, wisteria, grape and trumpet creeper.
DEAR HELOISE: Hang a three-quarter-inch key ring over the hook on clothes hangers, and hang another hanger, with coordinating clothes, on the key ring. This saves lots of room, and helps keep “outfits” coordinated. Two items take little more space than just one.
- Shirley L., Elgin, Ill.
DEAR HELOISE: I never used to eat leftover pizza that had been refrigerated because I don’t like cold pizza, and microwaved pizza gets a very soggy crust. I finally figured out how to restore it quickly. I put it upside down on some aluminum foil in the toaster oven and toast it like a slice of bread. Scrape it off onto a plate with a pancake turner.
- N.J., Now in Nebraska
DEAR HELOISE: I was tired of the cords from irons, electric toothbrush, coffee maker, toaster, etc., dangling around and getting in the way. I opened the kitchen junk drawer to clean and threw old napkin rings on the counter, and one rolled up onto the coffee-maker cord! Makes a perfect cord holder. Fold the cord, put it through the ring, and no more cords dangling.
- Todd, via email
DEAR HELOISE: I have an idea for storing nonstick fry pans. I took the shelf out of a two-shelf cupboard in my kitchen island. My husband hung a rod across it and bent some hooks for me that circle the rod. I hang all my pans, small to large, on the hooks. The larger pots stack nicely under the shortest fry pans, and the lids under the large skillets.
- Sherril in California Send a money- or time-saving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, Texas 78279-5000; fax to (210) 435-6473; or email [email protected]
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