I attended a talk by Alicia Funk, who wrote a book on using Calif. native plants. I don't know what species you have in Indiana, but here the A. douglasiana, she said, makes a great mosquito repellent. Since the aroma is what keeps the bugs at bay, yours would probably work well, too. Spread the word around to gardeners, and perhaps some of them will be inspired to make mosquito spray!
Alicia makes a simple infusion (pour boiling water over the herbs, steep, and strain) but also sells a product that contains mugwort and other herbs with cider vinegar. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Robin Hobson <[email protected]>wrote: > Greetings All, > > We have been having issues with Artemesia (mugwort) spreading throughout > the rental plots. If the gardener is not vigilant, it can rapidly achieve a > very thick and tenacious hold on the plot. Weeding it out is often > ineffective as it spreads through adventitious root sprouts - the more > pulling, the more sprouts. I will try sowing a thick crop of annual rye > grass as an attempt to crowd out the invasive. Has anyone else faced this > or a similar issue and remediated with cover cropping or any other methods > that met with success? Smothering with cardboard has not yielded effective > results. As it is, I believe we will have to take the plot out of rotation > next season in order to keep this plant from overtaking entire blocks of > 10" x 20" plots. Thanks for weighing in! > > Robin Hobson > Market Master/Community Gardening Program Manager > City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation > 812.349.3704 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131003/1a9fb3e4/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to > find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > -- If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -- Cicero -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131003/36118868/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
