CHAPTER 11 - The Best Control 2

Clear Plastic - can be used to solarize or burn weeds and their seeds to death. Till the area, water it and coverwith unbroken, clear plastic for 2 months during the summer.Clothes Dryer - Kills most pests when you dry your clothes.Clove Oil - relieves pain and is a strong germicide, more powerful than carbolic acid. Cloves repel ants. Steamdistilled clove buds are 90% eugenol; foliage is 45% - 60% eugenol. Use 4% - 8% eugenol and 1% sesame (asa synergist) in a spray and you can kill insects by blocking octopamine, a neurotransmitter found in insects butnot in humans or their pets. Eugenol is an exempted ingredient as is sesame oil. The Author has found 5% -15% clove oil when blended with 8% - 10% sodium lauryl sulfate and 1% - 4% sodium chloride and glycerin willquickly kill plants, especially if you drop the pH using vinegar and/or citric acid.Clover (sweet) - The attractive “weeds” contain a broad spectrum antibiotic.Cloves - Dry cloves repel ants and when stuck in oranges repel moths and other insects, but you might be allergicto cloves (Eugenica caryophyllata). Grandma was right. You can kill the pain of an aching tooth by swabbingit with clove oil. Researchers attribute the remedy’s effectiveness to eugenol, a pain-relieving chemical foundabundantly in cloves. Cloves and/or clove oil can be used as biopesticide alternatives.Coal Tar Pitch - is also known as pitch oil, topped coal tar and creosote. The Author does not recommend its use.Coca Leaves - Are natural insecticides.Coca-Cola - Spray this soft drink (with aspartame) on insect pests or feed it (with its fizz intact) to mice and ratsand see what happens. Pour 2 - 2-liter bottles into a hole you have made in a fire ant mound. Pour some inthe center of weeds on a hot, sunny day and wait at least a week before reapplying Coca-Cola. It will removegrease and blood stains from the driveway overnight and will take corrosion from batteries.Cocoa Shells - are an attractive mulch that is nicely scented and can discourage cats from digging in the garden.Coconut Oil - is known for its ability to penetrate skin.Coconut Oil Soap - Can be diluted and sprayed to control slugs and snails. See Soap.Cockroach Poop - This is the “secret ingredient” that determines if your roach trap and/or bait will be successful.Their defecation contains the aggregation pheromone.Coffee (Coffee arabica [L.]) - Put some leftover coffee in a bottle trap to quickly capture wild Mediterranean fruitflies, Ceratitis captitata (Wiedemann), both male and females, or spray it on plants to control red spider mitesand repel snails and slugs. (Note: If you want to kill snails and slugs using coffee you will need to make strongcoffee.) Cocaine and caffeine are closely related. Coffee contains caffeine which helps stop bronchospasmsand helps open constricted bronchial passages, especially if you add chocolate and/or cocoa that contains moretheobromine, which also helps asthma attacks. Drinking coffee regularly helps prevent gall stones, especiallyif you eat nuts . Regular coffee drinkers also lower their risk of diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, colon cancerand dental cavities. Coffee lists your mood and can be used to treat headache. People who smoke and drinkcoffee on a regular basis have less heart disease and liver damage than those smokers who do not drink coffeeon a regular basis.Coffee Can Traps - Bury a tin container in the soil of your garden so the lip of the can is flush with the surfaceof the soil. Crawling bugs and slugs and snails will fall into your tin can trap; empty as needed.Cold - Another safe and very effective control; observe winter in Michigan.Collars - Cut a piece of paper one foot square and fit it snuggly around the stem of the plants and press intothe soil an inch or so deep. Use a paper clip to hold it in place, This collar will prevent cut worms and otherburrowing insects from getting into the soil and destroying your young plants.376