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Stuff I found and want to pass on..

 

 

Pest Control

 

 

Plant a garlic clove beside the plant you want to protect. Pests of all kinds will stay away. Do not plant garlic near peas.

 

Basil near tomatoes will repel worms and flies.

 

Plant onions near carrots and beets. Onions and garlic will protect your lettuce and beans from Japanese beetles, carrot flies and aphids.

 

Pour boiling water on ant hills to kill ants quickly.

 

To protect cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts from the cabbage moth, use mint, sage, dill, and thyme. Do not plant cabbage near strawberries.

 

To deter ants, use equal parts of vinegar and water to wash your countertops, floors, cabinets, etc.

 

Try leaving an open bottle of pennyroyal or citronella oil in your room if mosquitoes are a problem indoors. You can also rub a little apple-cider vinegar on your skin to serve as a repellant.

 

Aphids and spiders will stay away from plants that have been sprayed with dishwashing liquid mixed with water. Aphids will also stay away from anise and coriander.

 

Use a bit of cinnamon in your cupboards and drawers to get rid of silverfish.

 

To kill cockroaches, mix half a cup of flour, a quarter cup of sugar, and one cup of borax together. Sprinkle along the cracks and crevices where they hide.

 

To catch flys make your own flypaper with honey and yellow paper.

 

In general leave spiders alone - they are good bugs.

 

To make a flea powder for dogs and cats that is organic, use Pennyroyal herb or oil and mix with cornstarch and douse the critters with some... or plant it where they can roll in it.

 

To get rid of lice try using petroleum jelly (Vaseline). Try it, it works great. You saturate head with it, put a plastic cap on overnight and the next day they all wash right out, no need for fine tooth comb. May require several washings though....

 

from: http://www.i4at.org/surv/pest.htm

[bee1425]

Great tips! Thanks, westbrook.

[Cat]

 

 

[GirlNextDoor]

How come Westie is a guest now?

[Cat]

How come Westie is a guest now?

 

 

The post is from 2005, and since that time, early on, we had a glitch that messed things up. If you go back and look at the earliest posts that remained (after a crash that lost everything!), you'll see that not only are the names messed up, but all of the Administrators' posts were labled "guest_guest", as well as some of the Moderators'. But we feel lucky that they do, because originally ALL of those posts had just disappeared, and we only got them back when the program got "wobbly" again and was fixed.

 

Some of them I have tried to put in who actually wrote it, if there are clues.

 

The strangest thing was that the members' names were changed to whichever name just happened to come before theirs. Meaning that people had strange, never-posted names like "Ricardo" and "Judy Moist". Reci posted most of the earliest recipes now in the kitchen, but they all say "Dee".

 

I ran into this one yesterday while looking up other stuff, and decided to bump it up for review.

 

 

 

[Amishway Homesteaders]

WOW!

good find.

 

and it still works.

[GirlNextDoor]

How come Westie is a guest now?

 

 

The post is from 2005, and since that time, early on, we had a glitch that messed things up. If you go back and look at the earliest posts that remained (after a crash that lost everything!), you'll see that not only are the names messed up, but all of the Administrators' posts were labled "guest_guest", as well as some of the Moderators'. But we feel lucky that they do, because originally ALL of those posts had just disappeared, and we only got them back when the program got "wobbly" again and was fixed.

 

Some of them I have tried to put in who actually wrote it, if there are clues.

 

The strangest thing was that the members' names were changed to whichever name just happened to come before theirs. Meaning that people had strange, never-posted names like "Ricardo" and "Judy Moist". Reci posted most of the earliest recipes now in the kitchen, but they all say "Dee".

 

I ran into this one yesterday while looking up other stuff, and decided to bump it up for review.

 

 

 

What a pain in the buns, huh?

 

I am from East Tx originally & since there are so many trees we would get lice every year from the birds. We used olive oil in a shower cap to kill lice. It works & is easier to wash out than Vaseline.