Cricket Bait
9 ounces Borax
2 1/2 ounces cornstarch
2 1/2 ounces plaster of Paris
1 1/2 ounces powdered cocoa Mix together. Place in bottle caps near ... read article
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Cricket Spray
5 ounces turpentine
5 ounces liquid soap
5 gallons water Spray around foundation of house or ... read article
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Deer and Mice Repellent Spray
1 tablespoon Tabasco® sauce
1/2 cup non-detergent soap powder
1 gallon water Mix well. Pour into a sprayer. Thoroughly spray tops and undersides of leaves that you suspect are most ... read article
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Deer Repellent
This will not hurt the deer. The deer will shy away from the scent of other animals, so you trick them with the bloodmeal and hair clippings. Your barber is a good source for some hair sweepings. 1 yard ... read article
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Deluxe Garlic Spray
This works well against cutworms, slugs, white flies and wire worms. 6 tablespoons chopped garlic
2 teaspoons liquid paraffin
1 pint water
1/4 cup liquid soap Soak garlic in paraffin for 24 ... read article
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Dormant Oil Spray
This controls pests on hardy fruit trees. Pests are aphids, thrips, mealybugs, white flies, pear psylla, red spiders and various forms of scale. It also destroys eggs of codling moths, oriental fruit ... read article
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Dormant Oil Spray
1/2 cup fish oil
1 cup liquid detergent
1/2 cup No. 10 mineral oil
2 gallons water Mix fish oil, mineral oil, and detergent thoroughly. Put the water into a bucket and disperse the oil mixture ... read article
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Early Spring Insect Soap Spray
This suffocates early spring insects, especially on fruit trees. 1 gallon light-grade oil
1/2 gallon warm water
1 pound laundry soap Dissolve soap in water. Add oil and mix well to ... read article
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Fly Paper
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons black pepper
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
Brown paper bags, cut into strips Boil milk, pepper, and sugar together for 5 minutes. Simmer ... read article
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Garlic Garden Spray
Add garlic cloves to water in a blender. Strain the liquid through several layers of cheesecloth. Spray on garden plants and keep numerous pests at ... read article
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Garlic Oil Garden Spray
Soak quite a bit of finely minced garlic in mineral oil for at least 24 hours. Add about 2 teaspoons of the oil to a pint of water in which 1/4 ounce of Palmolive soap has been dissolved. Stir ... read article
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Gnat, Fly and Mosquito Repellent
This will not harm babies' faces. It can also be sprayed onto horses to prevent pests from bothering them. 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup water Mix. Store in a tightly-covered ... read article
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Grape Fungi Control
4 teaspoons baking soda
1 gallon water Dissolve baking soda in water. Spray evenly over grapes and vines. Apply once when the fruit starts to appear and weekly thereafter for about 2 months. Also, ... read article
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Homemade Fly Trap
2 cups water
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup vinegar Mix ingredients and pour into a fruit jar. Punch holes in the lid large enough so that flies can get inside. Set outside away from the kitchen ... read article
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Insecticides
Insecticidal Soap The commercial insecticidal soap sells for $7.98 per quart. The homemade versions cost just pennies and do the same thing. I presented two different versions on KOTA Television. Version # ... read article
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