Ants
Tempt them with a sprinkling of sugar. When they start taking the sugar back to the nest mix one part sugar with one part Borax crystals. The queen ant will be fed this fatal ingredient.
Cats
Stop cats using your flower beds as a toilet - spray tea bags (either new or used) with Ralgex (Deep Heat). Bury the teabags just below the surface of the soil - when the cat disturbs them they will give off the scent of the spray - which cats can not stand. In time the tea bags will break down and nourish the soil.
Dogs
Dog pee kills grass - twice a day put one tablespoon of tomato juice in with your dogs food. The harmful acid in the pee is neutralised, which means that the grass is not killed. (This does not harm the dog!)
Moles
Mix ferret or badger dung with a little water, to form a paste. Paint this in the mole runs and they'll soon move on. (Ferrets and badgers are natural predators.)
Slugs and Snails
Tempt them away from plants with the skins of oranges and grapefruits.
Spray WD-40 on pots - they don't like crawling through it!
Put mineral felt roofing material around plants, slugs and snails do not like crawling over it to get to the plant.
Birds Nests
Put Shredded Wheat out for the birds - they use it to build their nests.
Cut Flowers
If tulips droop (due to bubbles inside the stem) prick the stem with a pin, just below the flower. They will straighten up within a few hours.
Put cut flowers into flat lemonade rather than water, they will last much longer.
Lauren :)
