Author: John Bain

Posted on

I ♥ Princess Auto or Princess Auto is Manitoba

image

Allow me to wax poetically about Princess Auto.

Hello Everyone,

my name is John and I have a problem. I love Princess Auto … I dont love it for its cheap tools or friendly staff I love Princess Auto because its my wormhole back to Winnipeg!

image

I may pull in to the parking lot driving a car with Ontario plates but once I walk through those automatic double doors I am instantly transported back to my home town of Winnipeg.

Princess Auto is like a warm blanket

The store in Ottawa is almost identical to the one on Portage ave store. Hydraulice hoses on the right, hand tools on the left, the “surplus” section at the back and sweet sweet deals in the gooey center. 

Princess Auto is a slice of cherry pie

For those unfamiliar Princess Auto has its own line of tools and Power Fist be its name. Its the SuperStore Presidents Choice of air tools, the IGA Compliments of pry bars, the Safeway Select of trouble lights.

Princess Auto is like meeting an old friend

So what did I buy today?image

  • One large and one small metal 90° square
  • One bottle of brake cleaner
  • One yellow florescent trouble light
  • 4pc fuel/coolant disconnect set
  • 2 cheap utility knives
  • One dental/o-ring pick set
  • One auto trim removal tools
  • One blue tape measure

Princess Auto is a Swiss+ army knife

I’m sure that in some indirect way Princess Auto has provided keys tools for building some of the most important Canadian inventions. Its not just farmers that walk through those doors … dreamers, thinkers, inventors and “makers” all know where to go when they need a widget or a doo-dad … the surplus section.

Princess Auto is the Rosette Stone of ideas

Posted on

How to Kill Onion Maggots ?

There are two avenue to take

  1. DDT aka Chemical Warfare
  2. Organic kitchen remidies

These methods are what I have scraped. off the internet.

1. Make the furrow in which the onion sets will be planted. Heavily dust the bottom and sides of the furrow with granulated sugar and fresh, uncooked coffee grounds. Do not stir to incorporate into soil. Plant onions. This method works for onions, radishes plus other underground root vegetables prone to root maggots.

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/organic/msg0408111728888.html

2. Diamotaceous earth, food grade DE not pool grade, and Floating Row Cover.

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/organic/msg0521383316554.html

3. I plant onion sets just deep enough so as the tips are sticking out of the ground. When the plants have begun to nicely established themselves, the soil is carefully pulled away to the base of the bulbs, yes some of them will then flop, though most will soon right themselves. We never again have had maggots in the onions when using this method. This also works quite well for turnips.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/north/msg09200003796.html

Beneficial Nematodes have worked for me. From 80%+ damage to 99% perfect onions. The stuff is pricy but in my area 1 treatment lasts 4 or 5 years. Works well on cabbage root maggot also.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/allium/msg1105305221903.html