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Find out more on MYHERBS-STORE.COM. My Herbs is a special quarterly publication for anyone who is interested in alternative cooking, home grown herbs, and traditional or complementary medicine or healing methods, simply for everyone who wants to live in harmony with nature.
Find out more on MYHERBS-STORE.COM.
My Herbs is a special quarterly publication for anyone who is interested in alternative cooking, home grown herbs, and traditional or complementary medicine or healing methods, simply for everyone who wants to live in harmony with nature.
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Pest-repelling herbs<br />
All we need to do is choose some of<br />
our favorite aromatic herbs, and<br />
plant them strategically in places where<br />
we spend most of the time. Of course,<br />
we cannot expect that a couple of<br />
plants will drive all the troublesome insects<br />
away; the aromatic chemicals are<br />
effective only to a limited extent, and<br />
some insects are more resistant than<br />
others. However, this piece of folk wisdom<br />
is definitely worth implementing,<br />
because it may considerably decrease<br />
the number of unwelcome flying<br />
guests. In addition, the smell of fresh<br />
aromatic herbs filling the home doesn’t<br />
hurt, and they partially disinfect the<br />
air!<br />
USING ESSENTIAL OILS<br />
AGAINST MOSQUITOES<br />
Chemical compounds that insects<br />
hate are present in many plants. Many<br />
of these compounds are essential oils –<br />
volatile, strongly aromatic chemicals of<br />
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