{"id":20195,"date":"2018-06-20T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=20195"},"modified":"2018-06-20T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T00:44:09","slug":"the-au-naturel-native-american-way-to-protect-your-garden-from-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/20\/the-au-naturel-native-american-way-to-protect-your-garden-from-pests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Au Naturel Native American Way To Protect Your Garden From Pests"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Song of Hiawatha<\/em>, Chapter 13 (“Blessing the Corn Fields<\/a>“):<\/p>\n

\n     Once, when all the maize was planted,
\nHiawatha, wise and thoughtful,
\nSpake and said to Minnehaha,
\nTo his wife, the Laughing Water:
\n“You shall bless to-night the cornfields,
\nDraw a magic circle round them,
\nTo protect them from destruction,
\nBlast of mildew, blight of insect,
\nWagemin, the thief of cornfields,
\nPaimosaid, who steals the maize-ear
\n     “In the night, when all Is silence,’
\nIn the night, when all Is darkness,
\nWhen the Spirit of Sleep, Nepahwin,
\nShuts the doors of all the wigwams,
\nSo that not an ear can hear you,
\nSo that not an eye can see you,
\nRise up from your bed in silence,
\nLay aside your garments wholly,
\nWalk around the fields you planted,
\nRound the borders of the cornfields,
\nCovered by your tresses only,
\nRobed with darkness as a garment.
\n     “Thus the fields shall be more fruitful,
\nAnd the passing of your footsteps
\nDraw a magic circle round them,
\nSo that neither blight nor mildew,
\nNeither burrowing worm nor insect,
\nShall pass o’er the magic circle;
\nNot the dragon-fly, Kwo-ne-she,
\nNor the spider, Subbekashe,
\nNor the grasshopper, Pah-puk-keena;
\nNor the mighty caterpillar,
\nWay-muk-kwana, with the bear-skin,
\nKing of all the caterpillars!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve encouraged my beautiful wife to try this method, but to no avail. Of course, our gardens don’t have corn since it’s a little dry for corn around here in the late summer time, and she is probably right to be doubtful about native methods since my attempt to use the “three sisters” method of growing corn, beans, and squash together did nothing but leave us with a harvest of more spaghetti squash than we could eat (which, to be honest, is any<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Song of Hiawatha, Chapter 13 (“Blessing the Corn Fields“):      Once, when all the maize was planted, Hiawatha, wise and thoughtful, Spake and said to Minnehaha, To his wife, the Laughing Water: “You shall bless to-night the cornfields, Draw a magic circle round them, To protect them from destruction, Blast of mildew, blight of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20198,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions\/20198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}