Well now, I have been wondering if Rosemary was any bit effecting in repelling bugs with its strong aroma.
Well, I finally got around to pruning my rosemary bush. Found about 30 baby earwigs and one now deceased over winter squash bug.
So, no. Bugs are not bother by rosemary's aroma.
Rats!
no surprise to me. same with many other plants that have strong smells, most of the smell only happens when the plants are damaged to release the oils/scents. that may prevent any chewing bugs from doing much damage, but it won't necessarily keep them away.
we grow a lot of thymes here and i love it as a lower growing plant which smells good when i have to weed it. plus i like that we don't react to the smell of it like we do for a few of the other plants we have.
songbird
we have a lot of wid around here. My plant at least, you move it 1/2 inch and Oh Boy!. So the bugs underneath have been showered with the stuff every time the plant get hit with a puff of air.
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