Ridding your home of roaches

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June/July 2001
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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1 Fill a stout wooden or galvanized steel bucket half way with water.

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2 Pour in lime, stirring with a wooden rod or paint stirrer, until the water level is within two or three inches of the top. Leave the stirrer resting at the bottom to help break the material out end let it set overnight (but no longer).

3 The next day, pour out the water leaving just enough to cover, and stir up the settled lime

4 Mix up a saline solution - a cup or two of salt per gallon of water - and add this to the lime until it reaches a pancake batter-like consistency. Mix only enough to use in one session. To keep the lime from resettling in the bottom of the bucket and to act as a binder, we like to add in powdered milk or paperhangers wheat paste. Mix them to a thin paste in water before adding.

Apply this solution to your fence with a broad, disposable whitewash brush (which you can find at an old-time country paint or hard goody store). To keep the wash from dabbling on your fence-line petunias, slosh the brush in, pull it up, shake straight down twice and flip the tip up quickly to the work.

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