Keeping mosquitos out or rain barrels...

[Valleybrook]

I have just joined this forum and this is my first post. I have 2 rain barrels set up and was wondering what to do to keep mosquitos out...

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Dan

[cindy]

Try this...http://www.rittenhouse.ca/asp/AboutUs.asp?LID=2155

[Durgan]

I have just joined this forum and this is my first post. I have 2 rain barrels set up and was wondering what to do to keep mosquitos out...

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Dan

May I direct you to this thread.

http://www.canadiangardening.com/forum/ ... hp?t=11375

[Valleybrook]

Hi Cindy

Thanks for the reply. Is that solution of barrier, soap, water and oil ok to water plants with? Also, I live in London Ontario. Do you or anyone know of a local supplier of the barrier(concentrated garlic oil)?

Thanks to Durgan for the reply as well.

Dan

[butterfly]

Try this...http://www.rittenhouse.ca/asp/AboutUs.asp?LID=2155

I bookmarked this cindy

thanks

[Olivia zone 6]

I would go out to your local pet shop and buy a couple of feeder goldfish and put a few in each of the barrels. They love mosquito larvae and will keep your rainbarrels from becoming breeding grounds. A Cheap way to solve the problem. We get fish 10 for 2.00 and you can always bring them in for the winter. O

[mandalynrain]

Actually I just put a good squirt of dishsoap in mine, but I certainly like
the idea of the god fish, so will my cat Slick!

[Backyard Gardiner]

Check out this rain barrel installation video:
http://www.gardeninglife.ca/video/RainBarrel/

[Durgan]

Check out this rain barrel installation video:
http://www.gardeninglife.ca/video/RainBarrel/

Surely that video is one of the most perfect examples of how not to install a backyard rain barrel system. That is the type of silly information that discourages people in the long run, if they are so unknowledgeable as to install using the advice presented..