How to Use Landscaping to Repel Mosquitoes?

Everyone likes to enjoy a beautiful garden in or around their house. However, the problem with gardens is that they are home to mosquitoes. Whenever you would like to have quality time in your garden, insects will bother you for sure. However, what’s not known is that one can keep the mosquito population in check through landscaping. Use landscaping to repel bugs and mosquitoes. Therefore, prevent them to enter your house.

The methods, such as planting mosquito repellant blooms, eradicating water stagnant places, and keeping the garden clean will keep the environment free from mosquitoes. Mosquitoes come from outside and it becomes often with the increase of foul organic matter in or around your place.

 

Different Landscaping Ways for Repelling Mosquitoes

By looking after certain aspects of your lawn as well as landscaping, you will be safe from mosquitoes. One can make the landscaping for repelling mosquitoes in certain ways. Some of these methods are listed here:

 

Plant Mosquito Repellent Plants

Grow lemongrass in your garden or surroundings, which is also known as Cymbopogon. Mosquitoes do not like the lemongrass’ scent. When you crush the lemongrass’s leaves, they give out a scent that is attractive to human beings. However, it repels mosquitoes, insects, and bugs.

One can also add marigold plants to the garden. They offer a beautiful garden look and repel mosquitoes and insects with their fragrance. Other plants to keep bugs and mosquitoes away from the garden are basils, rosemary, catnip, mint, and lavender.

 

Clean Damp and Wet Places

Look for and clean places that have stagnant water. We all know that mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water sources, such as badly drained areas, old tires, clogged gutter, etc. It is better to destroy those eggs before they develop by getting rid of different stagnant water sources. Plus, eradicate mud puddles by growing some plants and adding a layer of dry soil or stones.

 

Maintain your Lawn

Most home growers and greenery enthusiasts grow plants like cedar in their gardens for repelling mosquitoes in a natural way. The scent of aroma has been long used for repelling insects like ants, termites, mosquitoes, and moths. This smell derives from the oil ensnared in the cedar wood.

People often use it as a mulch. This scent diminishes with time, which indicates that the oil has dried up. This is when the mulch would not work to repel mosquitoes. Apply the mulch in garden beds or around the outdoor gardening surroundings to prevent mosquitoes from taking shelter among them.

Clean the lawn regularly and put cedar mulch in there. Also, tallgrass could be a reason for the manifold increase in the mosquito number around your place. During a hot summer day, mosquitoes take a retreat into the foliage for avoiding dehydration. Meaning that the weeds in your garden or around the surroundings could be home to mosquitoes. Although tall weeds are not the only problem, un-mowed lawns could even offer safety to a mosquito.

As mosquitoes are barely ¼ of an inch in size, they can easily hide under two-inch grass. So, cut the tall plants and remove weeds on a regular basis. This will keep you healthy and safe!

 

Call in Mosquito Predators

Now, there are various animals and birds that can help you in controlling mosquitoes. So, all you need to do is to add several mosquito predators to your place, which can be small birds. Now, give away these predators to stay in your garden for killing the bugs and mosquitoes. Support these mosquito predators by offering comfort, which is quite significant for their survival.

 

Eliminate Wind Flow Obstacles

Mostly, mosquitoes cannot survive in a higher speed wind flow. Remove obstacles from your garden or surroundings, which could block the wind. Usually, the trees having height and foliage could block the wind. So, you need to shorten the tall trees and trim the foliage. Thus, the wind could blow around the house and garden without obstructions.

 

Add Circulators to Water Bodies

As stated above, mosquito eggs can grow only when fully submerged in poorly circulating or stagnant water. In case, you have water features like a pond on your property, add a filter, pump, fountain, or other such devices to ensure water gets circulating. As mosquito larvae have nothing to swim or guard against strong currents, they need stagnant water to develop.

 

Place CO2 Mosquito Traps

Another great way to keep mosquitoes away from the garden is to put up a CO2 mosquito trap. This trap extrudes an attractant for drawing mosquitoes to it and keeping away from pets and people. As mosquitoes examine this tempting scent, they get trapped inside this device and eventually die from dehydration.

So, this trap is an effective method for reducing mosquitoes in your garden without using a repellent or chemical spray. However, it is quite effective when used with a repellent.

 

Add an Overhead Fan

For porches and outdoor entertainment places, consider adding an overhead fan near such areas with higher human activity. The strong breeze offered by fans is sufficient to drive away mosquitoes and keep them from coming back. One can install overhead fans for keeping them out of your way. Oscillating fans are far better than stationary fans to repel mosquitoes. This is because these fans create irregular flow and thus, it becomes difficult for mosquitoes to navigate.

 

Put up Screens on Your Porch

Apart from adding a fan to the porch, it is best to install screens on your porch to limit the exposure of mosquitoes. Screens have a tightly-woven mesh, through which insects and mosquitoes cannot get through. Screening in a gazebo, porch, or other constructions allows you to stay outside without thinking about biting from mosquitoes and insects. However, these screens could deaden breeze and trap heat.

So, this is how one can use landscaping for repelling mosquitoes. You can try any method that works best for you. You can even go for two or more methods to see effective results. Now, get rid of mosquitoes without much effort!