On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:59:39 +0100, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

There's a wasps' nest in my garden - a hole (maybe two, close together) on
a sloping section of rough lawn. On two visits to Homebase a fortnight
apart they had no stocks of their 'Wasp nest killer', £5.99, or indeed
*any* wasp destruction product. Meanwhile it struck me that there must be
several ways I should be able to do this myself. So I'm here to seek
suggestions please.

My own initial thoughts a

1. Put a plastic bag and a something heavy over the top to suffocate and
prevent entry.

2. Pour fine sand or similar into the hole, with same objective.

3. Position a hose over the hole and trickle water into it to drown
inhabitants and presumably make re-entry of others unlikely, even after
hose switched off and water drains away.

4. Stuff some dry newspaper into the hole, douse it with paraffin and
light it, with similar comments to #3.

Put a bowl of water near to the nest so that the wasps get into the
habit of using it. Then add a drop of insecticide per litre of water
every day until the wasps abandon the nest.

Steve