Laun/Pruett Recipe Collection
Mosquito repellent spray for yard

1 large bottle blue peppermint mouthwash (from dollar store)
3 stale beers
3 cups epsom salts

Pour beer and mouthwash into a container (an old saucepan, a bucket), stir and add the salt. Mix up the stuff properly until salt is dissolved. Pour the mixture into a spray bottle. Shake well before use.

Application directions of Paul Harvey anti mosquito spray

Spray your backyard areas where you sit or spend lots of time outside: on decks, in patios and in alcoves around benches, on and around front porches, around pools, ponds and fountains. If you are camping out, spray directly on the lawn grass, around and on the tents. The stuff won’t do any harm to children, pets, flowers and vegetable plants. Do not allow anybody in the treated area until the spray is dried out. Homemade mosquito repellent wipes out blood-sucking insects from sprayed areas for about 60-80 days. In tropics and subtropics, where mosquito season is longer, it is required to spray twice a summer.

It works! A week before my daughter’s wedding we were getting eaten alive by mosquitoes at 6 PM. We sprayed the next day, the day before the wedding and we only heard of one mosquito bite!

Recipe Contributed by Paul Harvey via Mary Ann Laun