[Sca-cooks] OT-Squirrelly Issues

[tom.vincent at yahoo.com]

A few replacement suggestions:
 
1.  Since hot sauce is primarily water, use cheap chili powder instead.  That's what I used in Phoenix and it kept all the creepy-crawlies off the porch in a matter of hours.
 
2.  If you really want to use hot sauce, go for one not so horribly overpriced as Tabasco.  Ounce-for-ounce, it's about 10 times the price of store brands.
 
3.  I use garlic powder (not garlic salt) inside to keep ants away.  Apparently stepping on it is unpleasant for them...maybe they don't appreciate the wonderful aroma either.
 
 
Duriel
(who wonders if 'lady wife' means you have at least one other wife who isn't a lady ;> )
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: grizly <grizly at mindspring.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:03:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT-Squirrelly Issues


I saw a show on Home/Garden channel a yer ago that suggested something
similar.  Mix 3 parts tobasco or other hot chili sauce with water.  Place in
spray bottle and place liberally on the plants . . . try to avoid the
fruits, I suspect.  The capscaicin (sp) welps ward of insectoids as well as
avian and mammilian b at st@rds.  The tobacco infusion (nicotine jwater) works
for insects only, though.  Replace any of this after rain.


niccolo difrancesco
(Soapy water sprayed carefully on weeds will supposedly kill them off as
well)