Re: OT garlic and spiders ...

[Guest guest]

Hi Steve,

This site has some good suggestions.

http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf279075.tip.html

Also, I heard that they hate Lemon Pledge, so wiping corners where

they web would discourage them. I've used Diatomaceous Earth outside

and have seen far fewer spiders this last year.

DE will kill other insects which the spiders feed on. You can put some

in a squeeze bottle (like a diner mustard bottle) and carefully dust

along b aseboards. Don't breathe it in though.

Good luck!

Léna

We have a lot of spiders in our home, especially the basement (which is

finished). Generally speaking spiders are our friends - ie help take

care

of other bugs - but honestly I don't want that many of them in my

home. I

also do not want to spray any sort of pesticide in my home - for the

sake of

the environment and the humans and animals who reside there - so I

have had

limited luck in reducing the number of spiders.

Each fall I do get some hedge apples and put them around. They do seem

to

help a bit but only last so long and then I cannot get anymore until

next

fall. Garlic I can get year round. Has anyone used it to help naturally

discourage spiders in the home? If so, how and how successful was it?

Enquiring minds ...

Jaxi

>

> Lena,

>

> Surely not that hard to grow at home. Just another green crucible

> veggie. Not sure if bugs like them or not. I know that you will never

> find a spider or roach in a garlic curing barn.

>

> Gerry

>

[Guest guest]

Have you looked into diatomaceous earth? You could use it in the

basement--wear a mask when you use it so as not to inhale the dust.

It is safe stuff, but not good to breath the dust for obvious reasons.

Mara

> We have a lot of spiders in our home, especially the basement

> (which is

> finished). Generally speaking spiders are our friends - ie help

> take care

> of other bugs - but honestly I don't want that many of them in my

> home. I

> also do not want to spray any sort of pesticide in my home - for

> the sake of

> the environment and the humans and animals who reside there - so I

> have had

> limited luck in reducing the number of spiders.

>

> Each fall I do get some hedge apples and put them around. They do

> seem to

> help a bit but only last so long and then I cannot get anymore

> until next

> fall. Garlic I can get year round. Has anyone used it to help

> naturally

> discourage spiders in the home? If so, how and how successful was it?

>

> Enquiring minds ...

>

> Jaxi

>

>

> >

> > Lena,

> >

> > Surely not that hard to grow at home. Just another green crucible

> > veggie. Not sure if bugs like them or not. I know that you will

> never

> > find a spider or roach in a garlic curing barn.

> >

> > Gerry

> >

>

>

[Guest guest]

I do not know about using garlic to keep bugs out. Who would want their

home to smell like a garlic curing shed? For spiders invading in fall,

I would simply dust the thresholds of my doors with 10% Sevin dust each

autumn. Just spread it out uniformly with a whisk broom, and keep the

line you pour it in thin, and close against the threshold itself, where

it rises up. Bugs will have to pass through it, but pets and humans

will not contact it that way. Over 20 yrs ago when I built our present

home, I liberally dusted the areas where I was installing cabinets and

vanities. I have never seen even one cockroach in our home. I also

dusted all floors around the perimeter of each room after the baseboard

was finished and nailed up. Then I swept it under the baseboards in

every room. No spiders or roaches.

Gerry

>

> We have a lot of spiders in our home, especially the basement (which is

> finished). Generally speaking spiders are our friends - ie help take care

> of other bugs - but honestly I don't want that many of them in my home. I

> also do not want to spray any sort of pesticide in my home - for the

> sake of

> the environment and the humans and animals who reside there - so I

> have had

> limited luck in reducing the number of spiders.

>

> Each fall I do get some hedge apples and put them around. They do seem to

> help a bit but only last so long and then I cannot get anymore until next

> fall. Garlic I can get year round. Has anyone used it to help naturally

> discourage spiders in the home? If so, how and how successful was it?

>

> Enquiring minds ...

>

> Jaxi

>

>

> >

> > Lena,

> >

> > Surely not that hard to grow at home. Just another green crucible

> > veggie. Not sure if bugs like them or not. I know that you will never

> > find a spider or roach in a garlic curing barn.

> >

> > Gerry

> >

>

>