RE: Mosquito repellant
- Subject: RE: Mosquito repellant
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:31:42 -0700
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- Thread-topic: Mosquito repellant
Actually the cats and rub on you all the time anyway ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Martinson [l*@wi.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 2:02 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: Mosquito repellant
>I nearly ripped the pierced earrings out of my earlobes while swatting
>mosquitoes as I was deadheading the Salvia and Veronicas last week, so it was
>with great interest that I read the following in the recent issue of Avant
>Gardener (July 2002, Vol. 34, No. 9):
>
>"Crush fresh catnip leaves and rub them on your skin and you will have a
>mosquito repellant ten times as effective as Deet, reports Iowa State
>University [Ames, IA, 50010)..."
But heaven help you if you also own a couple of cats!
--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com
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