My Grandmother's Kitchen Never Had a Fly... Here's What She Did
Your kitchen fills up with flies every summer, and no amount of swatting or spray seems to help. Tonight Amos shares the old mountain ways to get rid of flies in the house and keep them out, naturally, with no poison anywhere near your food. These are the tricks country people worked out over a hundred years of living next to the barnyard, and most folks have plain forgotten them. Here is the one thing that changes everything. You are not fighting the flies you can see. You are fighting where they are born, in filth and rot and muck. Take away the breeding, and the flies have nowhere to come from. Chapters: 0:00 The kitchen you can't sit in for the flies 2:44 The one fact: they're born in filth 4:42 The fruit fly and the drain 5:39 1. Cut off what breeds them 7:51 2. The screen door 8:39 3. Keep it cool and shaded 10:09 4. Never leave food or dishes out 11:17 5. The herbs flies hate 12:21 6. The clove-studded lemon 13:43 7. Old smells and the vinegar wipe 15:15 8. The jar trap 16:50 9. The water bag over the door 17:47 10. Chickens, swallows and spiders 20:13 The one thing to do this week 20:59 Tell me your grandmother's trick If you love old homestead wisdom and natural pest control, subscribe to The Old Mountain Way and pull up a chair. Now tell me down in the comments. What did your people do to keep the flies out, back before there was a can of spray under every sink? I read every single one.
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