LovinLife- Happy New Year's all!

[LovinLife]

Thanks. I will use some polish tonight and maybe I can get some sleep.

 

[Farmfresh]

Benydryl will also help.

I added some flowers of sulfur to a batch of my homemade soap. It is great when you are outdoors a lot. It really keeps the bugs at bay.

 

[lorihadams]

Don't ya just love VA in the summertime? I can laugh cause I have been there and done that. Clear nail polish works for a little while until it peels off. That new skin stuff works too.

 

[LovinLife]

Don't ya just love VA in the summertime? I can laugh cause I have been there and done that. Clear nail polish works for a little while until it peels off. That new skin stuff works too.

I do love VA! How are all your raised beds lookin? I was thinking about you today while I was pulling weeds out of my strawberry pyramid.

 

[LovinLife]

Benydryl will also help.

I added some flowers of sulfur to a batch of my homemade soap. It is great when you are outdoors a lot. It really keeps the bugs at bay.

How does it smell?

 

[Icu4dzs]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...or so they say.

My first walk around my place in Virginia netted about 300 chigger bites on my legs. Yes, I was stupid enough to be wearing shorts...which I never did again.

So, for starters, just remember the best prevention is knee high socks and long pants (tied to your ankles preferably), long sleeve shirts and some gloves if you really want to escape those little beasts.

Spray some repellent on the cuff of your pants before going out which will actually do a good job of keeping them out of your drawers.

The itching is nearly impossible to resolve. All the remedies you have read here are only somewhat helpful. Chiggers are in the spider family and there just isn't much that will help when you get them. You can try nail polish but most of the folks who have come to me tell me that the nail polish didn't work so they thought a doc could give them something better. Sad news is that not much will help. Steroid creams MIGHT help but not for long.

Sorry you got the "chiggers".
//BT//
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[Denim Deb]

I've tried the nail polish, but to no avail. The only thing I found that worked was something I got in the drug store called (if I remember correctly) Chigger Ease. The funny thing is, I never got chiggers until I was in college. And, I've never gotten them since. And, that's in spite of the amount of time that I spend in the woods.

 

[Farmfresh]

Benydryl will also help.

I added some flowers of sulfur to a batch of my homemade soap. It is great when you are outdoors a lot. It really keeps the bugs at bay.

How does it smell?

Actually not too bad. I also put in some herbs to help mask the scent some. The actual soap bar kind of stinks (like sulfur), but after the bath the skin smells pretty neutral. I guess it still smells bad to the bugs though.

 

[lorihadams]

Thanks for thinking of me....my raised beds look pitiful. I have one roma tomato, my peppers are still 3 inches tall, all the leaves on all of my bush and runner beans have turned yellow and are falling off but I do have some green ones coming in, my spinach died shortly after it came up and all my lettuce has come up to about 1/4 inch and stopped. I finally got my carrots to start growing and they are about 2 inches tall, the strawberries look okay but I won't get any fruit off them this year, my corn is okay and I found at least 6 of what appears to be watermelons or pumpkins growing in the compost pile. Don't know how they got there cause everything in that pile is from April of this year.

Oh, and out of a pack of sunflower seeds I have 3 that are a foot tall if I can keep hubby from hacking them off with the weedeater.

None of my brassicas did a thing and neither did the chard or beets or turnips but I did get two bowls of sugar snap peas and my pumpkins, watermelons and corn in the second garden space look fabulous. Must be the pink flamingos.

 

[LovinLife]

Thanks for thinking of me....my raised beds look pitiful. I have one roma tomato, my peppers are still 3 inches tall, all the leaves on all of my bush and runner beans have turned yellow and are falling off but I do have some green ones coming in, my spinach died shortly after it came up and all my lettuce has come up to about 1/4 inch and stopped. I finally got my carrots to start growing and they are about 2 inches tall, the strawberries look okay but I won't get any fruit off them this year, my corn is okay and I found at least 6 of what appears to be watermelons or pumpkins growing in the compost pile. Don't know how they got there cause everything in that pile is from April of this year.

Oh, and out of a pack of sunflower seeds I have 3 that are a foot tall if I can keep hubby from hacking them off with the weedeater.

None of my brassicas did a thing and neither did the chard or beets or turnips but I did get two bowls of sugar snap peas and my pumpkins, watermelons and corn in the second garden space look fabulous. Must be the pink flamingos.

Aww. That's so discouraging but sounds all to familiar! I wacked one of my new blueberry bushes down with the weedeater, my hubby went behind where I planted sunflowers and planted corn, the chickens and guineas got whatever seeds my DH missed, my strawberries were eaten by either my chickens or deer, I started my garden waaayy too early this year so all my sprouts froze and (last but not least) of the 5 free muscovy ducklings I got this summer, only one didn't get eaten by the killer snapper turtle, and that one is NOT a muscovy but a mallard or kahki campbell......lessons learned my friend, lessons learned.