Combating local stink

Very hard to propagate though ...

I don't think scent from plants is going to come close to masking the smell ... the only time we really (I mean to the point where the flowers manage to be stinky in their own right) notice the scent in our garden is on a very calm (zero air movement) Summers evening, sat outside late into the evening.

I like the idea though.

 

I'm wondering clueless, had you thought about a wood burner / Chimnea together with outdoor Citronella candles? It might be enough to enjoy some time out in the garden in the evening, when the weathers right of course. I actually use both of the above in my back garden to mask the vomit inducing odour of my neighbours two Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs after they've been out and done their business. They're extremely good neighbours and they do clean it up but not regularly enough.

 

Giant incense sticks.........

 

It seems we've had a stroke of luck. The awful smell seems to have gone away. I guess whatever the problem was has been fixed.

 

Spoke to soon. Just been to the shops on the other side of the works, and it seems those poor so and so's have got it for now. The wind has changed.

 

poor clueless, hope the smell stays away for a while, I have a good nose myself and bad smell is a BIG nuisance - and moving house isn't an option usuallly ...

 

It has crossed my mind to move, and to move a good few miles away from all the local heavy industry. That would put me in the countryside. Brilliant, perfect?

Then I thought some more. The works sometimes have harmful emissions, but its very tightly controlled. Last time there was a mishap that qualified as an emergency, all manner of agencies were swarming all over the place afterwards, and in any case emissions are constantly checked 24/7/

In the countryside, a farmer may spray his fields with who knows what. I know for fact that some farmers use stuff that was banned years ago, just because they happen to have some in the back of a barn somewhere.

Neither of these things worry me, but it makes me think there's not much point moving away for fear of chemical poisoning.

Then there's smell. There is a smell at the moment that the council and the environment agency are investigating. At some point the cause will be found and rectified.

In the countryside, every year around mid to late summer, the yellow fields exude so much mustard gas that sometimes I feel physically sick and dizzy if I spend too much time in their proximity. Muck spreading season follows the oil seed rape maturing, which is smelly, though for some reason the smell of part fermented animal poo doesn't seem to bother me.

Either way, it seems there's no escaping the smell