fight against small (and not so small) animals in an environmentally Photo and text: © Sandrine New
How to protect small animals without poisoning the environment, or some ideas and recipes for Grandma's garden and house without pesticides and insecticides : - Birds eat your fruits?
* hang pieces of aluminum foil in the trees using fishing line. You can even cover the aluminum shell to add the sound of their Rattled your scarecrow.
* If the fruits are almost ripe, put a bag over palstique: they continue to mature ... safe.
- flies, bees, wasps are around your glass of juice? *
with creativity you a stopper foil and slip a straw.
* build an insect trap with a plastic bottle: Put a solution made it a 1 / 2 cup water and a 1 / 2 cup sugar, then add 1 cup cider vinegar a banana skin. After shaking, fill halfway with water, make a hole 2 cm up, and hang from a tree.
- Moles destroying your garden?
* for hunting without harming them, mix 1 / 2 cup of castor oil to 7.7 liters of water and sprinkle generously with the molehills.
* simpler if you have a cat, pour the soiled litter into mole hills! Moles take their legs around their necks!
- Prevent rodents or moles spoiling your plants?
* place wire mesh, wire mesh for such housing with the location of your lawn. Cover with a thick layer of soil, plant.
- squirrels or other critters, love your flowers?
coat * Rod Vaseline to prevent them from climbing.
-The cat insists to his needs in your flowerbeds?
* mix the rest of coffee in a filter with an orange peel and place this mixture at the base of your plants. The cat will do his business elsewhere and the mixture is also a good fertilizer.
- A plague of aphids?
* bury a banana skin dry or cut into small pieces and 2.5 cm deep at the base of the plant attacked: aphids will soon pack their bags!
- Snails and slugs love too your garden or your flowers?
* Protect your planting with a gate ash: it sticks to their bodies and Dryer poor predators.
* variant: sprinkle of crushed chalk at the base of plants.
* place a container of beer at the base of plants attacked: snails and slugs are attracted by its smell, but soon find themselves drunk and drown ... *
to prevent slugs and snails getting into your flower pots, place them on sandpaper, even used, some rough exposed.
- Do not want to get bitten by ticks or mosquitoes?
* Coat your legs and pant legs to chest rubs. These little critters hate the smell pungent.
* in the same vein, you can also try the onions, skins of citrus, vanilla essence.
- You've been bitten by a mosquito or a bee?
* a few aspirin will relieve skin moistened. You can also use an onion or salt.
-mice moved into the garage?
* place there a few mothballs: the mouse will move. *
once marked the entrance holes of mice, cover them with sponges metal, hard to nibble.
- The little creatures are attacking food for your pets?
* place the bowl in a container as a low aluminum tray, which you fill with water.
* Please circle the bowl of cat or dog baking soda: it will keep insects at bay and not likely to poison your pet.
- Too many flies in the house?
* build your own fly paper kills by covering a cardboard toilet paper roll of tape, sticky side exposed. Hang it in a strategic location.
- A problem with ants?
* protect the closet or the object coveted by ants by a rampart of adhesive tape, sticky side exposed. *
less aggressive (why kill the ants when you just have to hunt?): Use a barrier made of crushed chalk or flour.
* you can also sprinkle the entries of the closet, and the passage of ants lemon juice, and place slices of lemon in the closet. *
can still spray the ants (or nests) of a mixture of half water and half vinegar.
* if the ants climb onto your table, place each foot into a small container filled with water.
- Moths invade your closet?
* Clean your drawers and closets with a solution of ammonia (1 half cup per 1 liter of water). Allow to air dry.
-The house is overrun with cockroaches and fleas?
* mix the juice of 4 lemons to two liters of water, wash your floor, and watch the critters escape: they hate the smell.
* to get rid of fleas, you can also put a few drops of dishwashing liquid mixed with water in a dish placed on the ground near a lamp. Fleas attracted to the light jump in base and drown.
- Your pets domestic (especially dogs, cats hate this treatment ...) have problems with ticks and fleas?
* sprinkle them with a mixture of vinegar and water in equal doses.