How to Keep Flies OUT

One of the things I have to deal with during bottling season is lots of flies. I like to do most of the bottling outside in the back yard to keep the mess to a minimum and keep the heat outside. But that means lots of going in and out of the house- so usually the door gets left open quite a bit. Open door equals millions of flies. I had been told by my niece that if you put a baggie with a few pennies and some water in it, it would keep out the flies. Sounded funny, but after dealing with so many flies this year, I decided to try it. Hey it only cost a few pennies right?

Well to my pleasant surprise it worked! I just put about 4 pennies in a plastic bag, and filled it half way with water and zipped it so the water wouldn't leak out. Then I hung it on the out side of the back door. Then I deliberately left the door open while doing salsa. There were no flies in the house at the end of that day, so I kept leaving the door open that week just to see, and we have not had a fly problem since! It seemed to work for us, I have no idea why or what the science is behind it, but it worked. There have been millions of flies still outside, so it's not like they all died off all of the sudden.

So if you have a fly problem, or your doors seem to always get left open for all the flies to come in as they please, try it! It only cost a few pennies, right? If you do, please let me know your results as I would like to see if it works well for other people too.


Happy Gardening!

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