Another Old Fashioned Remedy – Using Beer, Cinnamon & Black Pepper!

Since I’ve been stuck in the home on my Coronavirus Blues vacation, I have a lot of time on my hands to rummage through things I have collected over the years.  Old tidbits of news, letters, notes, books and those oddities you just can’t let go of.

For example, I’ve found notes my mother have written to me on just about every subject under the sun even beer, cinnamon and black pepper. Yes, there are many uses for these three items. Let’s look at what you can do with beer first.

Did you know that beer us made up of ingredients that can enrich your garden soil? Yes, it is. Just mix a several tablespoons of beer into your garden soil, do this by mixing the beer into water that you pour onto your soil. This will give your plants a boost. Also adding beer to your compost starter has boosting benefits too, the yeast and sugar in beer adds beneficial bacteria to compose.

Do you have a problem with bees in your garden or yard?  You can create a bee trap by punching a series of small holes (big enough for a bee to get in about 3/8-inch-wide) in a lid of an old glass jar. The fill the glass jar with one half beer, screw on the top and place the jar in the yard where you’ve seen bees. The bees will be attracted to the beer, crawl into the hole and can’t get out.

Having a backyard party and want to eliminate bees? Just place a few open cans around the perimeter of your yard. And woola! Bees be gone!

Don’t you just love the smell of Cinnamon?  Bet you didn’t know your neighbors’ cat and dogs don’t. Yup!  Do you want to keep your neighbors’ cat or dog out of your yard?  Just sprinkle some cinnamon around the perimeter of your yard every week.

And if you love the great smell of Cinnamon, freshen up you home with Cinnamon, by putting Cinnamon sticks in your vacuum bag before vacuuming.

Black pepper also works to keep neighborhood dogs and cats out of your yard. And it works to keep away rabbits, squirrels and raccoons away.  So, if raccoons are bothering your garbage cans just sprinkle black pepper around your garbage cans to keep them out.

Black pepper also works to keep away ants.

There you have it. Old fashioned remedies for using beer, cinnamon, and black pepper.  I bet you’ll never look at these three items the same again.