Rows and rows of onions marched across our garden. More than we would actually eat, but there was a use we had for them beyond that of food.
As the days lengthened, we children used to love playing outdoors and as twilight wrapped us in its fading light the mosquitoes would increase their pestering of us.
It was onion tops to the rescue. We'd select the plumpest top we could find without spending a lot of time searching and carefully split it open and rub the slimy insides on our arms and legs and go back to playing. Mosquitoes didn't seem to care for our new scent and would move on to something less onion-y.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I sure wish I would have known that trick when I was a child playing outside in Iowa. Those mosquitoes are vicious.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Betsy
Mosquitoes and make the loveliest evening miserable.
DeleteI have never heard of that before. If it works, well, great.
ReplyDeleteIt helped, but it's been years since I've done that.
DeleteThat's a new one!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many odd little tips and tricks out there. I wish I knew all of them.
DeleteThat's a trick I never heard of but if it works then it's a good one.
ReplyDeleteIt was a cheap non toxic way to keep the mosquitoes at bay.
DeleteGood to know. I'll have to bear that in mind.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing ... if you have plenty of onion tops.
Delete