26/02/2021
🔴 Herbs - 120.00 each
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✔️ Rosemary
✔️ Peppermint
✔️Spearmint
✔️ Lavender
NATURAL REPELLENT FOR MOSQUITOES
In light with the Dengue epidemic, we encourage you to plant these natural mosquito repellent crops as well as to push for agroecology for a balanced ecosystem.
The continuing imbalance of agro-ecosystems resulted to increase of pests such as mosquitoes.
Chemical farming is one of the culprit. Massive use of insecticides kill millions of dragonflies which serves as predators of mosquitoes.
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Mosquito Repellent Plants
🔴 Lavender
Lavender contains pinene and linalool, both of which make lavender plants great mosquito repellent plants. Many other compounds make up lavender, but these two are largely responsible for repelling mosquitoes. Lavender grows best in well-drained soil. It can produce flowers the first year, but the leaves often contain as much oil as the flowers.
🔴 Marigolds
There’s an old saying that if you plant marigolds near your potatoes, you won’t get potato bugs. Turns out it’s because of tagetone and to a smaller degree limonene.[2] Tagetone repels mosquitoes very well just by being present in the garden. Marigolds are annuals that come in short or tall plants with a variety of yellows and oranges.
🔴 Basil
Basils are great mosquito repellent plants because they contain geraniol, among other constituents. Some basils such as Thai, Holy Basil, and African Blue Basil, also contain eugenol. Some other basils contain eugenol but to a lesser degree.
🔴 Rosemary
Rosemary is well known as a culinary herb. It contains rosmarinic acid along with pinene and borneol, another compound that makes them great mosquito repellent plants.
🔴 Peppermint
Peppermint contains mostly menthol, which mosquitoes dislike.
🔴 Onions
Onions contain sulfur compounds that mosquitoes don’t like.
🔴 Garlic
Garlic also contains these sulfur compounds. Yes, onions and garlic always seem to go together. Whether it’s for culinary use or use as mosquito repellent plants!
🔴 Oregano
Oregano contains thymol and pinene, both of which repel mosquitoes.
Source: https://www.diynatural.com/mosquito-repelling-plants/