[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #30 - 14 msgs

[Ruth Frey]

> > I know I'm chiming in rather late here...I'm not an herb expert, but was
> > told several years ago by one who does know herbs rather well that
> > pennyroyal, which grows very easily, also is a good mosquito repellant,
> > as is eucalyptus (not easily grown, but easily found wherever dried
> > flowers are sold).  We usually hang a bunch of one or the other (or
> > both) in our pavillion at Pennsic...and it seems to work pretty well!
> >
> > > Borage is a skeeter repellent.

	Citronella is good, of course, though not likely
Period (but, as a native of Asia, it's *possible*).  I've
also seen lavender and dried sweet woodruff recommended
as strewing/scenting herbs.

		-- Ruth