Soap dish soap water works best and doesnt kill your plants. Theres a bunch of ways you can do it. I dont know what idiot thought boiling soapy water would matter. As soon as the soapy water covers their body they suffocate. Best to do this late at night. If you cant find their second, third or other holes have someone stand by with a sprayer full of soapy water and put a mist around you. As soon as the soap water hits them they cant fly and just fall to the ground.
As for the hole you can either pump soapy water into the hole with a sprayer minus the sprayer gun.... just the hose.. put the hose in the hole, cover with foot, and stary pumping it in.
The other way you can do it is invert your dawn bottle. Squeeze in the soap. Then take your hose and jam it in the hole. Turn on fawcett and flood the entire nest.
Gas will work but will kill everything and make the soil toxic. If you have a nest under a tree you will most likely kill the tree. I take out these yellow jacket nest probably 3-4 times a year. Its not a big deal and I dont get stung. Only time I was stung was while raking the base of a tree and not noticing the hole in the ground. Most of the time the nests are not that deep and late at night they are all basically home unlike the daytime when the drones are out. Next day I typically dig them up out of curiosity and to confirm the nest is saturated. Normally they are not that deep.
I wouldnt be using gas around anything you want to grow especially something like a garden. Its kind of dumb anyways when regular old dawn dish soap water kills them.
Screw around with this stuff in the daytime and you will likely get stung from returning drones playing worker bee. Night time you can walk right up to the hole. Just be aware they typically have at least 2 holes unless its a fairly new nest. Most of the time you can get close enough to observe where they are coming and going from in the daytime as long as you are cautious and gentle walking around. Look for multiple entrances and exits. One nest I flooded had 4 entrances.
Using torches and blowing things up is just dumb. Its just a wasp nest for goodness sake. Ive heard that Borax trick before but never tried it. Borax is good for lots of stuff. You can even take that for arthritis.
As for the hole you can either pump soapy water into the hole with a sprayer minus the sprayer gun.... just the hose.. put the hose in the hole, cover with foot, and stary pumping it in.
The other way you can do it is invert your dawn bottle. Squeeze in the soap. Then take your hose and jam it in the hole. Turn on fawcett and flood the entire nest.
Gas will work but will kill everything and make the soil toxic. If you have a nest under a tree you will most likely kill the tree. I take out these yellow jacket nest probably 3-4 times a year. Its not a big deal and I dont get stung. Only time I was stung was while raking the base of a tree and not noticing the hole in the ground. Most of the time the nests are not that deep and late at night they are all basically home unlike the daytime when the drones are out. Next day I typically dig them up out of curiosity and to confirm the nest is saturated. Normally they are not that deep.
I wouldnt be using gas around anything you want to grow especially something like a garden. Its kind of dumb anyways when regular old dawn dish soap water kills them.
Screw around with this stuff in the daytime and you will likely get stung from returning drones playing worker bee. Night time you can walk right up to the hole. Just be aware they typically have at least 2 holes unless its a fairly new nest. Most of the time you can get close enough to observe where they are coming and going from in the daytime as long as you are cautious and gentle walking around. Look for multiple entrances and exits. One nest I flooded had 4 entrances.
Using torches and blowing things up is just dumb. Its just a wasp nest for goodness sake. Ive heard that Borax trick before but never tried it. Borax is good for lots of stuff. You can even take that for arthritis.
