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Citronella

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Stick a cutting in damp soil.

Gardening stick cutting damp

Skip the citronella. Use lemon eucalyptus.

Health mosquito-repellent outdoor-safety skip

Skip the citronella candle

Home skip citronella candle

Marigolds and lavender are citronella's best garden buddies.

Gardening tomatoes seed-starting marigolds

Large-scale citronella farming has real environmental costs

Gardening fertilizer lawn-care large-scale

It’s Cymbopogon nardus

Gardening cymbopogon nardus citronella

It's the smoke, not the citronella, that's the real problem

Health smoke citronella real

Harvest citronella in the early morning

Gardening seed-starting gardening harvest

Don’t cook with citronella grass.

Food cooking meal don

Don't put citronella in your diffuser.

Automotive oil-change maintenance don

Don't burn citronella candles indoors.

Health mosquito-repellent outdoor-safety don

Diluting citronella makes it weaker.

Food recipe cooking diluting

Cut citronella to the ground, but not too often.

Gardening seed-starting gardening cut

Citronellal does the heavy lifting.

Home citronellal heavy lifting

Citronella works best when diluted and reapplied often.

Automotive car-maintenance vehicles oil-change

Citronella won't save you from a mosquito invasion

Automotive car-maintenance vehicles oil-change

Citronella repels bees too

Gardening citronella repels bees

Citronella plants won't do much. Use the oil.

Gardening citronella plants won

Citronella oil takes months — and a distillation setup

Gardening citronella oil takes

Citronella oil lasts 1-2 years, maybe more.

Home painting home-improvement citronella

Citronella oil is safe — if you dilute it

Automotive car-maintenance vehicles oil-change

Citronella is risky for pets, especially cats

Automotive oil-change maintenance citronella

Citronella is not your wasp solution.

Home citronella wasp solution

Citronella is not food

Food recipe cooking meal

Citronella is no match for DEET

Education citronella match deet

Citronella is mostly marketing.

Outdoors camping gear hiking

Citronella is largely useless for ticks.

Home citronella largely useless

Citronella is for mosquitoes, not ticks.

Automotive car-maintenance vehicles oil-change

Citronella is for bugs, lemongrass is for cooking.

Food cooking meal citronella

Citronella indoors over winter? Doable but fussy

Gardening citronella indoors winter

A standard citronella candle lasts about 25 hours.

Food standard citronella candle