OT Re: [Sca-cooks] Period gardening

[Glenda Robinson]

Eucalyptus not easily grown? Ha! Got em growing wild right in my backyard!
:-) We also have an amazing amount of mozzies swarming around (WAY too
many). The oil is sometimes a basis of some natural repellants made in
Australia, but more often they use citronella and ti-tree oils. Ti tree (or
tea tree, melaleuca) oil is one of those amazing natural substances that
seems to cure fairly much everything.

Glenda.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elaine Koogler" <ekoogler at chesapeake.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 11:55
Subject: Re: OT Re: [Sca-cooks] Period gardening


> 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!
>
> Kiri
>
> MtLion wrote:
>
> > Borage is a skeeter repellent.
> >
> > Purple Martin Birds (although not period nor European, but natural)
> >
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