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Be the Boss With Natural Mosquito Repellent Yard Techniques

When it’s nice out, nothing is worse than spending the time cooped up inside. But if it’s early evening and mosquitoes are swarming, you may stay in to avoid the inevitable mosquito bites that await you.

This summer, it’s time to pull a Tony Danza and ask “Whose the boss?” of your backyard.

Here are natural mosquito repellent yard techniques for all the different areas of your backyard where mosquitoes may bug you.

Read on for ways to get rid of mosquitoes in areas like:

• Children’s Pools and Playsets
• Plant and Vegetable Gardens
• Porch or Deck

Children’s Pools and Playsets

When you have little ones begging to play on their swing sets and in their sand boxes, it can be hard to turn them down. However, you don’t want to allow your kids to run around outside where disease-carrying mosquitoes live.

The best way to attack mosquitoes, is to stop them from breeding and hatching more mosquitoes in the first place. Mosquitoes will breed anywhere they find standing water in your yard. You want to stop them the most in areas where you family plays and hangs out.

Children’s pools, playsets and sandboxes are the perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes. These structures will often hold water after rain or become stagnant if you do not replace pool water frequently. Even after they hatch, some adult mosquitoes hang around close by these breeding sites.

Protect your children by getting rid of all standing water where they play. This natural mosquito repellent yard technique will stop mosquitoes where they start.

Here’s how:

• Empty and flip over small pools when not in use
• Cover sand boxes (especially when rain is expected) to keep the box from filling with water and soggy sand
• After a rainstorm, check playsets for any pooling water on swings, in tunnels, etc. and wipe it out.

IMPORTANT: Even if your backyard is as dry as the Sahara, always send children out wearing an organic insect repellent. You can never be too careful!

Plant and Vegetable Gardens

Working in your garden on a nice evening can be very relaxing. However, it’s hard to enjoy the scenery if you are constantly swatting away mosquitoes.

You should always wear an organic repellent when outside, but there are actually plant additions you can make to create a natural mosquito repellent yard.

A few plants that are known to repel mosquitoes include:

• Citronella grass
• Catnip
• Peppermint
• Rosemary
• Marigolds
• Eucalyptus
• Lavender

Some plants grow better than others, depending on the climate you live in. Head out to a local nursery and find out which of these plants would be best in your area.

No matter which you use, by incorporating these plants into your garden, you are one step closer to gardening mosquito-free.

Porch or Deck

There is no point to building a beautiful porch or deck if you cannot show it off to family and friends. But these guests will be reluctant to sit outside if the area is teeming with mosquitoes. Top off your natural mosquito repellent yard by protecting your porch as well as your garden and swing set.

The first step, is to check for standing water in this area, as well.

If you do not spot any stagnant water, time to break out the candles and organic pesticide to keep mosquitoes off your deck.

The scoop on citronellla candles, do they work?

Yes, citronella candles will keep mosquitoes away. Unfortunately, they only work within a small perimeter. This means that if your guests are not sitting around a candle, they may still be bitten.

To protect them, treat the area with an organic pesticide like those from EcoSMART. EcoSMART makes an organic skin repellent, and organic mosquito fogger aerosol and a mosquito & tick control yard procetion hose end concentrate. You can spray these right up to the time your guests arrive and not poison them with the fumes, they are completely safe.

So what are you waiting for? No matter if you have a playset, garden, deck or all three, you can protect your yard from a mosquito takeover. Natural mosquito repellent yard techniques are simple.

Whose the boss? You the boss.