Ela La Salle

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Hmm... I'm little off the topic but  for the first time ever, I do not have even one flower on my blackberry bushes. Just green bushes. So, maybe it's just a "weird thing" this season.
I haven't changed or done anything different at all.
Maybe I jinxed it because I bought a big jug with a plan in trying to make wine since last year I had such an abundance of huge fruits,  I was giving them away. Weird LOL

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Vase Angjeleski wrote:Hallo all, I saw this method just recently and looks kind of very frugal and effective. Has someone ever tried vacuum-sealing as this and if so, would that one be kind enough to share the experience with us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrZPLF0ezw8&ab_channel=SeriousEats

This post may be too old to reply to but... I just want to say that Ziplock bags "breathe" regardless what method is used. Freezer burns when foods are frozen in those bags and , funky plasticky taste in Ziplock meant for pantry storage.
I found this out before I purchased vacuum sealer. I won't use any bags like that.
Other than that, I use some methods already mentioned by others

Tim Luden wrote:I believe in garlic for ticks. I’m Italian and from late teens to late 30’s went on 5-6 float/camping trips a season. Also would eat traditional (high garlic) Italian 6-7 times a week. Don’t know if it’s a factor but also drank and smoked a lot. All of my friends would constantly be burning ticks off each other every trip. The last couple years I hardly eat it anymore and just this year got my first tick.

Another thing I was thinking about is PH; drinking a lot of alkaline water vs not.

As far as mosquitoes, if you look at how an anti radar missile works, they behave similar. They fly upwind towards you chasing both your exhaled CO2 and your pheromones.

Flies, wasps, bees, things with compound eyes seem to be responsive to colors. If I wear baby blue mowing the back acres by the ponds I get terrorized. Fluorescent orange seems to trigger them as well. Any one with a salt gun (the best $40 I’ve ever spent) paint the orange tip of the gun black and you’ll notice they don’t fly off before you can get a bead on them near as much.

LOL. Well....I smoke and I drink, garlic notwithstanding. No effect.  Thankfully no ticks around here. Wasps & bees don't bother regardless of what I wear. I like all bugs except mosquitoes and  bad flies. I have to look up what the salt gun is LOL

I can't help but giggle while reading this tread. I must have bugs from out of space because... NOTHING works against black flies except the netted clothing as someone already mentioned. I like garlic and onions and eat a lot of it among other foods- doesn't work.
Cigarette smoke  doesn't do a thing for any bugs.
Over the past years, I've tried mixtures of essential oils, rubbing all types of stuff on my skin, commercial stuff,  OFF, Deep Woods, crap advertised on YT or from people,  blah...blah...blah.. - didn't work for me, or anyone else I knew/know.

So... in conclusion, I wear the netting-thingy  which sucks on sunny days because it obscures my vision, but stops from being stung/bitten.
On a positive note, I retained information that for deer flies: one needs to place  something higher over the head: blade of  stiff grass, light branch, long feather, etc   (tucked on a hat) and that actually works!? The deer fly will buzz around the highest point of grass, etc. And won't bite.
I tried it before, and again while picking blueberries few days ago.

Maybe certain bugs bite/sting some people while not others?
 I noticed this with 2 of our dogs; black flies never bothered one breed, but did the other, and mosquitoes don't bother with our present dog but bothered with the previous.

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