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                                PESTICIDE

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Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
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  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
                        Beer
   2                    Garlic cloves
   1       t            Hot peppers
   1       c            Water

  Homemade pesticide:  To keep snails and ants away use beer.
   Place beer in pie tin and set tin into dirt, level with the
  ground.
  
  Bugs don't like dead bugs:  Gather together a collection of dead
  bugs, place in a blender with water; strin the mix until
  spraying consistency.
  
  Tiny pests attacking your house plants:  Take a tip from your
  dog and ring them with a flea collar; then cover the plants with
  plastic bags.  Remove in two days and the plants will be bug
  free.
  
  From Heloise:  To keep bugs away, mix garlic, hot peppers and
  water in the blender.  Pour into a spray bottle and apply to
  plants.  You also can put hot sauce on a cotton ball in a house
  plant pot to repel pests.
  
  This information comes from the HOME SHOW Newsletter #250 in
  celebration of their 250th newletter publication.  It is
  compiled from information contained in their newsletters #101 -
  249.
  
  Posted on GEnie by S.KERR7 [QueenTester], Nov 28, 1992
  MM by Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, GT
  Cookbook echo moderator, net/node 004/005
 


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