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• Method 1 of 2: Ticks love your body
• Method 2 of 2: Keep ticks out of your yard
• Tips

If you want to stay far away from those pesky ticks in your yard, you're certainly not alone. Ticks are tiny insects that survive by sucking on animals and drinking their blood. Fortunately, there are many measures you can take to keep ticks away from you and your yard. Keep ticks off your body by wearing clothing that covers your entire body and spraying a tick spray on your body before going outside. Keep ticks out of your yard by taking good care of it and planting plants that repel ticks.

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Method 1 of 2: Ticks love your body

1. Wear clothes that cover your entire body. If you plan to take a walk in the woods or spend time in your garden, wear long pants, long socks, a long-sleeved shirt and boots. This creates a barrier between the ticks and your skin, which reduces the chance that they will stick to your skin.
   • You can still do this in the summer months when the weather is warm. Simply wear clothing made from breathable fabrics such as cotton and linen blends.
2. Buy a spray that repels ticks. Buy a drawing spray such as Care Plus drawing spray, Zensect or Azaron. Just before you go outside, spray it all over your body to ward off ticks.
3. Make a drawing spray with essential oil. Put 250 ml of vinegar in a spray bottle. Add 10-15 drops of an essential oil that repels ticks such as cedar, geranium or lavender oil and shake the spray bottle. Spray the mixture on your bare skin and clothing before going outside.
   • You can also put a few drops of an essential oil that repels ticks like eucalyptus oil on a lint roller and take it outside with you.Every hour, roll the lint roller over the outside of your clothes to catch and stop the ticks crawling over your body.
4. Check your body and clothing after you have been outside. If you've been outside, check your body thoroughly for ticks. If you find ticks on your clothes, wash your clothes in hot water and tumble dry on a high setting to kill any ticks. Be sure to check your armpits, ears, hair, belly button and back of the knee carefully, as ticks often stick to those parts of the body.
5. You wash immediately after you have been outside. Always wash within 2 hours of going in to wash away any ticks that didn't bite you. This also reduces your risk of Lyme disease.

Method 2 of 2: Keep ticks out of your yard

1. Mow your lawn regularly. Ticks like shady areas and areas with tall grass. In the summer, mow the grass at least once every two or three weeks so that the ticks don't find your lawn attractive.
2. Keep your firewood in neat piles in the sun. Ticks often hide in untidy piles of firewood in the shade. To prevent ticks in your garden and pile of firewood, stack the wood nicely and neatly. Also, make sure the wood is in the sunniest spot, as ticks prefer moist, dark spots instead of dry, light spots.
3. Sprinkle diatomaceous earth on your lawn. Diatomaceous earth is a natural product that contains fossilized remains of diatoms, or tiny marine organisms. It dries out ticks and other insects. Sprinkle some diatomaceous earth in your yard to keep ticks away from your house.
   • Re-sprinkle diatomaceous earth after it rains to keep it working.
   • Do not sprinkle diatomaceous earth in your garden when the wind is blowing strong, as it can kill bees and other pollinating insects in your area.
4. Set up plants that repel ticks. If you have a garden or a small area of ​​plants, plant a few different types of tick-repelling plants like garlic and mint. Some other plants that help repel ticks include:
   • Rosemary
   • Sage
   • Fine jet
   • Lemongrass
   • Lavender
5. Plant plants that repel deer. Sometimes ticks come into your garden that have become attached to deer. Plant species of plants that deer don't like to keep both ticks and deer away. Consider planting the following plants:
   • Thyme
   • Ferns
   • Catnip
   • Asters
6. Make a barrier out of gravel or wood chips. Ticks often don't like to walk on surfaces like gravel and wood chips. To keep them away, create a barrier of gravel or wood chips between your yard and areas with a lot of trees near your yard or house.
7. Spray organic pesticides on your plants. Make your own natural pesticide spray and spray it on the plants in your garden that don't naturally repel ticks.
   • Chop 4 cloves of garlic and mix with a tablespoon (15 ml) of mineral oil.
   • Strain out the garlic and mix the oil with 1 teaspoon (5 ml) of dish soap and 500 ml of water.
   • When you want to spray your plants, fill an atomizer with 500 ml of water and 2 tablespoons (30 ml) of the mixture.
8. Call in a pest repeller. If there are a lot of ticks where you live and / or you want someone else to help you fix the problem, call a pest controller. The pest repeller can spray an agent in your yard, around your house and even on the trees in your yard to control the tick population.
9. Keep birds. Free-roaming guinea fowl, chickens and ducks will eat any ticks they encounter. If you can keep these animals in your yard, they can help control the tick population around your home.

Tips

• To prevent your pets from taking ticks home, put them on a tick band, wash them with tick shampoo, and give them regular tick medication.