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Two Spoons of Borax... The Cheap Old Trick They Stopped Teaching

2026-08-19 0 Dailymotion

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There is a little box that has sat in American cupboards for over a hundred and thirty years, the plain borax, a couple dollars at any store, and most folks use it for the laundry and never know the half of what it can do. For that same cheap box of white powder is one of the most useful things a gardener and a homesteader can keep on hand, good against a whole host of pests and troubles about the garden and home, and the old people leaned on it hard.
I keep up this Lancaster County place and garden with my own hands, the way my people always have, and borax has been on our shelf my whole life. My mother used it at the kitchen sink against the ants, my father around the milkhouse, my grandmother on the cellar walls. But mind me close, for borax is a kind of salt, and a little does good while a lot does harm. You measure it in level spoons, never heaping, and keep it from children and pets. Used with that plain care, it does the work of a whole shelf of dear bottles for pennies.
Here is what I walk you through in this one:
✓ The sweet ant bait that the workers carry home to kill the whol