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To: Dacula

I can offer two suggestions for outdoor use on wasps and flowers. We had a growing problem with wasps that had setteled into a space under the roof overhang on the deck and commercial spray was effective for maybe a day and cost way too much for continuous spraying. A neighbor told us about the use of filling your sprayer with a heavy solution of water and detergent and spraying it as needed. Husband started in the middle of summer last year and narrowed them down but not out. This year they are gone. He sprayed them every time they came out but kept at it and for the first time in several years we are wasp free. The other thing is coffee grounds. I had read recently about using them in a variety of ways but was most interested in outdoor plants. I started putting the grounds in a large coffee container and when it was full I scooped them on to the petunias and other flowering areas, as well as rose bushes and hydrangeas and they are all, except the roses, the most beautiful blooms we have ever had. I continue to save the grounds and use them routinely. We try anything that seems to have potential and always open to new ideas.


82 posted on 06/28/2020 1:50:22 PM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: mountainfolk
We had a lot of ground yellow jackets and paper wasps. I put on of these in front and another in the back right where there were probably a dozen old wasp nests.

No more wasps of either kind around now for 2.5 years. A little pricey, but after walking over a yellow jacket nest and getting about a dozen stings, I didn't care.

Waspinator

153 posted on 06/28/2020 3:51:20 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: mountainfolk
Coffee grounds have lots of acid in them. Make sure your plants like acid. Pour the grounds on ant hill, they don't like them.😃
160 posted on 06/28/2020 4:45:43 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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