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Would you make your own natural insecticide if you knew it was helping the environment. Well saving the planet is the thing to do and the benefits are going to keep your loved ones around longer.

Oh yeah, almost forgot about the fact that making your own natural insecticide will save you money over buy commercially available products.

I was over at a friends house the other evening to play guitar for a few hours. I always bring insect repellent because the bugs here in New Brunswick can really ruin an otherwise great evening.

When I arrived I noticed everyone was in the backyard under the huge trees where it was about 10 degrees cooler so I expected to be pulling out the bug spray in about 3 minutes or less, but I never had to at all. That got me wondering what was different between their backyard garden area and ours. We are only a 20 minute walk away from each other and both right in the heart of Moncton.

I have another friend that lives about half way between Barb’s house and our house. I can’t sit on their patio for any time at all and the bugs are starting to feast on me. They are renting now but have just bought a home and will be moving in in less than 2 weeks.

I know they would love to know why Barb has no bugs bother plants, pets or people, and so would I, so I called her up to see what she was doing, expecting to hear she was using harsh and potentially dangerous methods but it turns out to be an all natural insecticide.

Barb told me that she didn’t just make one natural insecticide for all the bugs around the property but she has a couple of different formulas that work well.

She told me that she found the recipes on the internet, gotta love that.

My immediate question was how do you get rid of your mosquitoes as those little buggers are the ones that spoil most of the fun in our backyards and gardens. My wife won’t go out into the yard or work in the garden now without wearing a mess suit. It’s uncomfortable and not very sexy I might add.

Citronella. Oh man, I knew that but it was tucked away in the back of my brain somewhere, thinking it probably didn’t work anyway. How much blood have I lost because of that belief?

I even have citronella candles and bucket in my garage. They look just like new because they have never been lit before.

Well my garage doesn’t hold a car because we don’t have one but it does make for a great nursery and tool shed but I can’t even work in there without the mosquitoes eating me a live. It kind of takes the fun out of gardening.

Well I sparked up the citronella bucket candle and put it in the middle of the garage floor then went into the house and took a shower to get all the insect repellent off my body, then came back out to the garage where I continues with my new indoor herb garden.

Not only did I not get bitten, I didn’t even see a mosquito, at all.

Today I am doing a bit more yard work where I am going to be outside under the bushes that surround our yard and I fear for my life under there. Let’s see what the citronella will do to keep me safe without spraying all my clothes and skin.

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