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How to get rid of fleas in your house the GREEN way.

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By georgegoodwin7
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This will give environmentally Green way to get rid of fleas in your house.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Yucca plant
  • knife or scissors
  1. Step 1

    Take a YUCCA Plant, you can find these at any nursery or garden shop, and cut off the outer leaves.

  2. Step 2

    Take your Yucca trimmings and hide them under couches and in various places in your home.

  3. Step 3

    Within days, you will see that the fleas are drawn to the Yucca leaves. The Yucca plant is a natural Deterant to fleas. The ones you have will die, the ones you don't have will never enter.

Tips & Warnings
  • Change out the Yucca leaves once a week (should not have to do this over 2 or 3 times)
  • Vacuum once a day to pull any dead fleas out of the carpet.
  • Yucca plants have 'stickers'. Be careful when pruning and cutting the leaves.

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on 1/13/2009 Wow this sounds interesting, is Yucca a kid friendly plant, or not poisonus? (I have small children)

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