Best Mosquito Repelling Plants

The best plants for keeping mosquitoes out of your garden

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Best Mosquito Repelling Plants
Plants do not keep mosquitoes out of the garden

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[sonnyamoran]

Thank you for that. I'm so glad someone else knows that about mosquitos. I preach this every year. No one listens!!

[deemb]

It doesn't. I live in the Australian bush, surrounded by eucalypts, or as we call them ' gum trees' there are still plenty of mosquitos.

[christianjorgensen]

Excellent information. Thank you for sharing.

[DDGLJ]

Mosquitoes don’t bite me, but gnats really do, and I have a pretty bad reaction to them. I finally bought permethrin treated clothing and they worked so well, all my gardening and hiking clothes are now treated with it. Better than spraying myself down every day!

[ryangooseling]

Our biggest problem is mosquitoes in the house.
The chickens and ducks actually do help keep the mosquito population down. Plus all the lovely bats.

[judymckerrow]

I was at a nursery the other day and my friend and I were talking about citronella plants and I told her that they didn’t work, someone over heard me say that, she had quite a few citronella plants in her cart, and she said they don’t, and I said no they don’t, she responded by saying well at least they smell good 😂🌷💚🙃

[permiesolutions]

Completely agree. Plants in a garden do not, but I have had great success making a decoction from the beautyberry leaves and spraying it on the skin. My kids are very sensitive to insect bites, but the beautyberry spray keeps the bugs off.
Additionally, I have had great success reducing the mosquito population by putting in a fish pond. I never feed my fish, but let them forage for their own insect feed.

[cyn]

Finally, the video that I was looking for!

[thalys]

I think the best way to keep them away is hit them hard at the younger stage. Mosquito that bite are the females one and they lay eggs in nearby water source. Need to have predators in the water to eat the eggs and larvae.

[Aswaguespack]

If you want to reduce the mosquito population around your home or garden then put up some Bat Houses. Then your mosquito population will likely go down. A single adult brown Bat can eat over 1, 000 mosquitoes in a single hour if the area of the Bat’s Night time Flight Patterns supports a large mosquito population. U of Michigan Biologists studied Bat and mosquitoes in Wisconsin and did conclude that contrary to other published findings that Bats could and did significantly eat large numbers of mosquitoes in a single night. Mosquitos fly without taking any “evasive flight patterns” making them relatively easy prey for an adult nursing mother bat who could consume her own body weight in mosquitoes (and other insects of course) in a single night. Purple Martins eat plenty insects but at the height Martins fly mosquitoes are usually not found at those altitudes so they are good at reducing other insect populations but not very effective with mosquitoes. So forget plants and if you have a really bad mosquito problem and do not want to resort to chemicals (which could endanger populations of beneficial pollinators) then buy or build and put up a bat house or two (even a rather small bat house can hold 200 adult bats) and then you might also have a free source of guano for use as a fertilizer for your gardening.

[wesleyhackney]

You are so true about this, NOTHING works but the try to sell consumer things and it’s all a lie

[dianeladico]

Oh my goodness, I know that channel. He's often wrong and when called on it just doubles down and makes stuff up.
Thank you for the video.
edit: to be fair, he never mentioned mosquitoes. He talked about distraction crops, flowers to attract beneficial insects and generally accepted flowers to repel veg-eating bugs. So not the fairest comparison. Still not going back to his channel but he wasn't wrong this time.

[songhenry]

Lemongrass keep mosquitoes out. They can’t hide in it because it’s have tiny stickers that they can’t stay

[realvipul]

agree. i live in a country where mosquitos present al the time. i tried many plants to repel but none worked. smoke repel mosquitos so i use dried neem leaves to create smoke. but not good for your lungs.

[PolAdd]

I have always heard that pines repel mosquitoes... meanwhile pine forests where I stay have almost double the mosquitoes due to the humidity and shelter they provide

[TheOzarkExplorer]

Well I sure appreciate the lesson. This year we've had lots of rain and we're seeing a bumper crop of mosquitoes.

[janicesgarden]

Good info. Tell us your thoughts on Bats and Purple Martin for mosquitoe control.

[hakdov]

I had a big ant bed appear in one of my raised beds so I looked up if there were any plants that repel ants. One listed was thyme. The ant bed was directly in one of my thyme plants. So much for that. :)

[eac-guy]

Idk about the plant itself but what about if you burn them to create smoke like black sage, neem, lemon grass?

[Mind_Funeral]

Lol the video mentioned is the first one recommended by YT in the sidebar on this very video