Natural Home and Garden Solutions

It sounds like it is flowers...
I have a plant here that I could try it out on if we had any in the house.

Any problems you encounter with plants and garden let me know and I'll look it up to see what it says just don't hold me to the outcome lol

Oh, I wouldn't.
I have used the birth control pills on plants already.

My mom knew a bunch of different things for plants. I think she had a book on it once too, but I didn't take that book with me when I left her place.

Here is one I have tried and do on a yearly basis. Put used tea bags around the base of plants and Azalias. It boosts pretty blooms and it must work because even tho they were small last year the blooms were beautiful. Also used coffee grounds

I have the first edition of the Home Remedy book, just love it. Daughter calls me all the time wanting me to look something up for her. Didn't like the second edition it was full of marlarky but the first one is really true and useful.

A lot of our modern medicine came from old home remedies. My dad said that when he was a little boy in Mississippi he got covered with poison ivy. He was so bad that grandpa carried him to the local country doctor. He mixed up brew and put it in a bottle with directions of how to take it and to be sure to take the whole bottle. He said you will never have poison ivy again. All dad could remember was how nasty the stuff tasted but he never had poison ivy again. He lived to be 85. If I had that formula I'd be a millionaire by dark.

Thats for sure Jim, some of the old ones are the best. I discovered the jewel weed that the birds brought in is good for poison oak and an older neighbor told us to use honey suckle vine with juice squeezed from it for poison ivy,oak and it worked.. Need to bottle that up because from what I've read you can still get that stuff even in winter from clearing vines or burning.

I had a neighbor who was a dive bomber pilot during WWII. He flew off a carrier in the Pacific. He hadn't seen land in over sixty days and broke out in poison ivy. He had it so much it was in his blood stream.

Be careful with the honeysuckle juice, that stuff is poison.

I used an aloe vera plant one year (the juice from it) to try and help clear up psorisis or how ever you pronounce that on dg hands. I bought done him in. He got red streaks running up his arm and had to go to dr.

Jim, how did he get poison ivy on a boat????

It was in his blood stream. It would just break out on him.

He may have been eating a cousin of poison ivy, like cashews or mango. They make a lot of folks get a bad rash too.

Hi JuneyBug, bet you have some good tips to post on here.

Hey Jim, do mice liked flavored coke too? Like lime or cherry?

We are going to try this here and at home. I just hope those eyes don't pop out! LOL

I don't know but expect they will like it. You'll find them dead with in a foot of where they drink it. You are safe on the eyeballs. You could do what a boy I grew up with did, he was home sick with the flu and got bored. He pulled the lead out of a box of 22 shells, filled the hull with bar soap and put a couple of shot out of a numer 8 shotgun shell in the end imbedded in the soap. He would lay on the couch and when one ran across the room he would shoot them with his pistol. I think he was sorry when he got well and had to go back to school.

Well Jim, I told my DIL about it and she has some sitting out in the garage now. I should e-mail her and tell her to go look, but she would send my son out there if he's not working.........LOL

I want to try this in the shed that my BF's chicken coops are in, as I know there are mice out there. I may just go set that up now.

let me know if it works Kassy, I caught my little visitor with the trap before it had a chance to drink the dr. pepper I had lol

Epsom Salt aids in disease resistance of plants. Mix one tbles. to one gallon water and spray on plants. It is magnesium sulfate, which lowers the pH of the soil and provides magnesium.

Ground cinnamon will fight mold mildew and mushrooms around peonies. Lightly dust each plant. It contains a natural fungicide-ortho-methoxycinnamaldehyde-that prevents the growth of fungi.

Mixtue of Tobasco sauce,garlic powder and dishwashing liquid (1/2 teas of tob.and 1'2 teas.garlic powder plus one drop of dish liquid. Mist on plants on eary symptons of disease. (leaves with white powder,curling or unusual patterns).

Flowers, you and that book surely are handy to have around....grin This was a neat idea...thanks for sharing

To keep the cats out of the garden tear orange peels into small (1/2 inch) bits and sprinkle around the beds.

To keep dogs from "doing it" by the mail box or wherever, drizzle vinegar in the area.

Roses love your old bannana peels! Tear or chop them up and put under the mulch.

What book Moon, this is stuff I know he he he he Great tips Juney

Gosh, I love the modesty....grin I am so impressed....grin

See you aren't the only one that knows everything she says as she is laughing and slapping leg lol

What is the old saying? Jack of all trades, master of none? Figured out a long time ago, I know a little about a whole lot, but just a whole lot about very little....grin

Life would be boring if we knew it all thats why DG is so great and my gardening techniques of dig,plant,stomp and pray works for me but am the others worst nightmare lol But sure is nice when something looks funky to call on people like you that know.

That's me...the knower of funky....grin

Coffee grounds are full of nutrients that plants love. Just work them into the soil of your houseplants or garden plants. It may keep them up all night but you can always use decaf. You can also use them to fertilize your entire lawn.

Add two tablespoons Olive Oil to the bases of ferns or palm plants once a month

Long before the advent of synthetic fertilizers,gardeners collected ashes from their fireplaces and worked them into the soil a few weeks before planting. Hardwood ash contains roughly 40 percent potash,a plant nutrient.

The elements most frequently deficient in the soil are nitrogen,phosphorus,and potassium.

you guys keep throwing all that food around the house you'll be over run with bugs & critters in no time hahahaha

I'm afraid to ask, but what does olive oil do for ferns & palms?

it makes their owner broke

Its a fertilizer for them Smiley

It starts the marination process for your hearts of palm salads and pasta....grin

I knew I could count on you guys!! It was too early for a snappy answer, myself.

Jim these girls are out of control get in here LOL

Flowers, the moles have stayed away from the coke. They either don't like the flavored cokes or they can drink it and no ones eyes are popping out. And we are not finding then dead near it either :-(

Oh well, back to baiting my traps with peanut butter.......
They love peanut butter ^_^

I just don't see how coca cola would make an animal's eyes pop out....

Thay can't burb, ask flowers..............LOL

LOL Kassy coke is for mice and rats not moles. Put used kitty litter in holes that moles make in the yard. Hide behind the door with a bat and smack the mice when they run out lol. Just kidding about popping eyeballs, haven't yall figured me out yet??? Too funny.

Uh, I don't know about the eyeball popping out thing, that sounds nasty. I do think it is true that rodents do not 'burp'.
I have a hamster and I was told not to feed it cabbage, broccoli or cauliflower or it could kill it.
I'm not sure if that is why or not?
They can eat other veggies and fruits though.

http://www.hamsterific.com/hamsteruniversity/foodlist.html
http://www.hamsterhideout.com/feeding.html
Here are some websites about feeding them. Looks like they cannot eat anything that has a lot of water in it or it will give them a tummy ache and the runs.