WLTX News 19, Columbia, South Carolina
June 16, 2005: 6 and 7 PM News
(Columbia) - In between all of the beauty, there's a miniature beast just waiting for the guys at Case Plants. "You're not getting bit one at a time, sometimes you're getting two and three at once," says Josh d'Marque, the store's owner. With 10 to 12 hours a day spent in mosquito friendly conditions, Josh and his co-worker Rob Taylor had tried just about everything to keep their skin bite-free. The only thing that worked was DEET - a chemical created by the U.S. Army during World War II.
"I just get nervous about using things everyday that have chemicals in them that I don't know what they are," Josh says. He wanted something found in nature and was so desperate he even tried to make his own home-grown bug spray. "About half of us were allergic to the one we made and so we all broke out in hives," laughs Josh.
He eventually found success, though, with Liquid Net Mosquito Repellent , an all-natural bug spray that's guaranteed to work. "I sprayed one arm and one leg and I watched and they'd just fly around and never land. My other arm - I was constantly swatting them off," says Rob. Josh agrees, saying - in his opinion - the new product is a thing of beauty. "The very first of the month was the very first time I was able to get it, so I was very happy," he says. Liquid Net is made with botanicals and costs about $7 for a 12 ounce bottle. You can get it at Case Plants in the State Farmers Market.
As far as other alternatives to DEET products, the Centers for Disease Control recently recommended two other ingredients as mosquito repellents: oil of lemon eucalyptus and picaridin. Ashley Monts, Reporter
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Green THUMB Gardening
Sponsored by The Murrysville Garden Club
By Janet Russell
Earlier this summer I had a lot of problems with deer, as I have had in previous years. They ate everything I grew in the yard, the hostas, tomatoes, black-eyed susans, daisies, lilies, impatiens, mums and anything else that came up. It was so devastating to never see the lilies bloom and to lose the mums in bud never bloom.
This year, I came across a new animal repellent called "Liquid Fence" at our local nursery. They recommended it highly, so I bought a spray bottle of it. It was $10.
I sprayed everything in the yard except the tomatoes. I was surprised to find the deer didn't eat the things I sprayed. However, they found the tomatoes and enjoyed eating those.
They also ate a geranium that I had forgotten to spray, and for the first time ever they ate my big daisies. They had never bother them before.
So, then I sprayed everything except the tomatoes. By then I had used up all the contents of the spray bottle, as I went back to the nursery and bought a gallon of the Liquid Fence concentrate, which is fairly inexpensive because it makes a lot.
I must tell you that it worked. This is a wonderful product and is fairly rain-resistant.
This product was created by an 81 year old man in the Pocono Mountains named Clark Kaskie.
He was constantly bothered by deer and rabbits eating his flowers and shrubs. He says he spent a fortune on chemical deterrents that didn't work and finally erected a four foot fence but thought it was ugly.
Mr. Kaskie, a retired chemical engineer, began experimenting with his own concoctions and after three months work found just what he was looking for. A very effective deer and rabbit repellent that was environmentally safe, biodegradable, and inexpensive.
He gave the product to people in his area for two years, and those people were so pleased with it that they urged him to make it available to more people. Today it is used successfully in many states in both residential and commercial areas.
This product has a money back guarantee and is not harmful to animals
DETROIT-- Liquid Fence promises to keep rabbits and other animals away from gardens, and in a Ruth to the Rescue story on Monday it did just that.
Debra Cavallaro with the Farm Center in Kensington Park has been trying to prevent small animals from invading her garden for years. She has tried a number of products, but nothing seemed to work, Local 4 reported.
"It's pretty frustrating when you're trying to grow things," Cavallaro said.
Ruth to the Rescue tested Liquid Fence in her garden. The product was sprayed, during dry conditions, around an area Cavallaro wanted to protect.
Rabbits were used to test the product on, and the Liquid Fence turned them away. Each time the rabbits approached the line where Liquid Fence was sprayed, they turned back around and went another way.
The odor of garlic, an active ingredient in Liquid Fence, acted as a repellant, Ruth to the Rescue reported.
"At one point, she was totally repelled. She washed her face," Cavallaro said of one of the resident rabbits used in the test.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer: To Do in the Garden
By Jane G. Pepper
Visits to other gardens are always enlightening, but especially when the garden is Cedar Ridge Farm, the home of Derek and Carolyn Fell, two accomplished horticulturalists who garden from dawn to dusk daily in Bucks County.
A tour of the hundreds of plants and many theme gardens presents several ideas that I want to pass along. First, if deer ambush your plants, the Fells suggest you try Liquid Fence; it's the only product they have found to be 100 percent effective, if they spray all their plants once a month.
Given the size of their garden, that's no small task, but Derek Fell said Liquid Fence also has another benefit. It's reasonably priced, compared with other deer repellents. And besides he has also found that it also repels woodchucks and rabbits.
Fell recommends that serious gardeners purchase the concentrate, which takes time to mix but is cheaper than the ready-to-use version.
Also catching my eye in the Fell's garden were the lustrous, large geraniums in pots on the steps up to their kitchen.
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