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Step 1
Since you will be having your morning coffee and reading the paper.
When you are finished with the morning paper you should save it for this evening when the temperatures fall but before it gets too dark to see.
roll the sections of the newspaper lengthwise and then flatten it.
Then moisten it with some water, you want it nicely damp but not wet. -
Step 2
Now that it is getting towards evening, it is time for you to spring into action.
Take those sections of folded newspaper and lay them down along side the bases of your plants as close to your rows as possible. -
Step 3
Next morning take a plastic garbage bag with you out to the garden and carefully pick up all the rolls of newspaper, then put them into the garbage bag and dispose of them in the outside trash bin.
During the night and just before dawn several of those nasty earwigs will have crawled between the folds of your damp newspaper to bed down for the day...
Do this at least a couple of times a week if not daily and you will have rid yourself of not only a few hundred or more earwigs but also several slugs and perhaps even some snails.
Comments
cndbl said
on 9/3/2009 Great article.
cndbl said
on 9/3/2009 Great article.
sallyemaycreate said
on 9/1/2009 Ewwww, scary looking... awsome tip, thanks for sharing! 5* & subscribed
Greatfunmoms said
on 8/27/2009 Good to know!
ezyas123 said
on 8/24/2009 Great tips.