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Flowers
Lemon wedge in water for extra life
Penny in water for extra life
Cut Lilacs do better if you hammer the ends of the stems.
Lilacs last two weeks in Sprite (POP)!!!
Give water from boiled eggs.
Broken stalk repair with piece of onion skin
1 1/2 teaspoons diluted nicotine sulphate to 1 gallon water sprayed on
vegetation to repel animals.
Bird Feeders
Vaseline on string of Hummingbird feeder repels ants.
Vaseline on pole of bird feeder will repel squirrels.
Garbage Cans
Moth balls in bottom to repel insects & animals
Spray with ammonia to repel animals
Insects
General Insecticides
1/4C dried basil to 3 L. water insecticide
Cedar oil: fleas & other insects
Nicotine, 3 drops dish soap, 3 drops ammonia: Bug laxative
Salt & Red pepper: barrier to ants
Toilet bowl deodorizer: ground up & sprinkled on soil kills bugs��as they
come to the surface.
Weak tea, 3 drops ammonia, 3 drops dish soap, 3 drops listerine:�washes &
humidifies plants (put in sprayer)
Insect Pur�e
Soapy water with/without nicotine, red pepper & garlic
Garlic & Chives border
Rhubarb leave tea Oxalic acid
Newsprint under shelf liners repels all insects.
Neem (Outdoor only)
Margosan-O kills 80 different insects
Garlic & Onion top pur�e
10-15 Garlic cloves in pint of mineral oil for 24 hours or more. Add 2 teaspoons
to insecticidal soap mix
Commercial Insecticidal Soap
Fatty acids do the job. 1/2 cup Isopropyl alcohol to a quart of
Insecticidal soap mix penetrates insect's protective coat.
Indoor Insects
Ants
Epsom salts in corners of room.
Dried Cucumber or Lemon Peel repels ants
Cockroaches
100g. boric acid & 50g. white sugar. Sprinkle behind stove.
Comet powder.
Sprinkle bay leaves or cucumber rinds.
Earwigs
Crushed bay leaves in cracks
Epsom salts in cracks
Epsom salts on sills of windows & doors
Fleas
Methoprene: halts flea growth at the larvae stage.
Brewers yeast in food
Talcum powder in corners where fleas travel.
Rub fur with citrus oil or lemon juice
Bathe in dandruff shampoo
Piece of flea collar in vacuum bag
Flies
Vinegar wipe: flies on counters
Hang cloves or scratched citrus rind.
Fruit Flies
Trap with beer in jar covered by paper with small hole
Moths
Cedar chips or lavender
Freeze clothing
Sachets of Rosemary or Bay leaves
Outdoor Insects
Aphids
Use aluminum foil around base of plant to confuse them
Colorado potato
Sprinkle plants with bran early in morning. beetles eat drink dew and burst
Cutworms
Cutworms can't digest cornmeal.
Cabbage Worm
1 part salt: 2 parts flour dust for cabbage worm
Earwigs
Cooking oil in margarine containers act as a trap.
Lice
Put kids clothes in dryer when they come home. Destroy lint.
Teatree oil in shampoo to prevent
Mosquito
1/4 C Yogurt in swamps every few weeks. Start early Spring.
Vinegar, mint oil or citronella on skin & clothes. Reapply.
Eat lots of Garlic & citrus fruit.
A strong solution of chamomile tea can be used to repel mosquitoes.
Caffeine
Mosquito larvae can't swim. Tobacco budworm looses appetite, develops
tremors and dies.
Diatomaceous Earth Barrier
Use in dry weather for the larvae of aphids, cabbage loopers, codling moths,
Colorado potato beetles, cucumber beetles, cutworms, fruit maggots,
Mexican bean beetles, root maggots, slugs, snails,
thirps, & tomato hornworm.
Horticultural Oil Sprays
Dormant oil can clog pores of leaves and buds
Lighter oils can be used on smooth foliage @ 2-3%
Volik oil 1/2 teaspoon to 1 cup of alcohol in quart of water
Beneficial Insects
Assassin Bug
Like alfalfa, camphorweed, carrots, goldenrod, Mexican tea, & oleander
Bigeyed Bug
Like carrot family, goldenrod, Mexican tea, & oleandre.
Damselfly
Like alfalfa, & wildflowers
European Earwig
Eat aphids
Firefly
Ground Beetle
Like camphorweed, evening primrose, pigweed, & long grasses
Lacewings
Like carrots, oleander, & wild lettuce
Lady Bugs
Like alfalfa, angelica, coffeeberry, evergreen, euonymous, goldenrod,
Mexican tea, morning-glory, oleandre, & yarrow.
Parasitic Wasps
Like carrots, daisy family, buckwheat, buttercup, goldenrod, oleandre,
strawberries, & white clover.
Braconid, Chalcid, Ichneumonid, and Trichogramma Wasp
Praying Mantis
Predatory Mite
Robber Fly
Rove Beetle
Soldier Beetle
Like wild lettuce, milkweed, hydrangea, & goldenrod.
Spiders
Like camphorweed, goldenrod, & asters.
Syrphid Flies & Hover flies
Like members of the daisy family, buckwheat, coreopsis, baby blue eyes,
candytuft, morning-glory, & oleander
Tachinid Fly
Tiger Beetle
Mice
Steel wool in cracks.
Oil or gum of Camphor in holes & outside building.
Porcupines
Hate to be chased and poked. They spread the NEWS & will all stay away
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