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eng7575
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gardening: mosquito repel plant

Postby eng7575 » Fri May 14, 2010 6:22 pm

anyone good with gardening? have plant any mosquito repel plant before? is that effective?
i found someone suggest

Catnip
Citronella

chinwy
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Re: gardening: mosquito repel plant

Postby chinwy » Fri May 14, 2010 7:33 pm

If you are refering to the same plant, tried that 20 years ago! NO it does not work. You will brobably need to plant a forest for it to work. The fad died as fast as it appeared - then, and it was expensive too. You are better off using a cocktail of lemon grass or citronella and spearmint EO with water or alcohol as carrier.

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Re: gardening: mosquito repel plant

Postby mickamix1 » Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:42 pm

it only works close proximity like 4 to 5 feet... anything more it doens't help.... but not cheap too!

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Re: gardening: mosquito repel plant

Postby yoladu » Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:11 pm

chinwy wrote:If you are refering to the same plant, tried that 20 years ago! NO it does not work. You will brobably need to plant a forest for it to work. The fad died as fast as it appeared - then, and it was expensive too. You are better off using a cocktail of lemon grass or citronella and spearmint EO with water or alcohol as carrier.


my family will buy the citronella scented candle when we have a bbq outdoor. when my kids were babies we used this very effective mosquito repellent cream called mustela, it is also from a plant extract but i have not seen this plant before.

some people believe pandan leaves will deter creepy crawlies, and they put them in cars, kitchen cabinets..etc
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