I have waist length hair. I don’t like how I look with no hair or a buzz cut, and I find longer hair easier to manage. I’m not dead-set on this length, it just seems the best config for my life in general.
When it’s not gardening season, I wash my hair 2x per week. I have a super low tolerance for greasy or dirty hair and this frequency works.
I rely on bug spray while gardening. I wear full coverage clothes and try and spray the clothes, but I need to spray the exposed skin on my face and neck. This leads to spray or the spray+sunscreen+dirt combo getting in my hair.
I have tried special clothes and hats (including with nets) but I get bit right through them. I want to avoid getting bit because of the risk of disease, but honestly I mostly want to avoid hearing or feeling them on my skin. Thermacell type products have not been useful.
Currently I try and pile my hair in a hat and today I am trying to wrap it in a kerchief first. The bulk isn’t great with the hat. My hair type is 1a, but I imagine people with more texture also deal with this challenge.
So I guess my questions are:
- Do you have tips/tricks for keeping long hair clean while using bug repellent?
- If your solution is a protective wrap of some kind, how to you keep the sun off your face/neck if the bulk prevents the use of sun hats?
Thanks!
I’m not sure this is what you are implying but I figure j should be explicit anyways: we do still mow. Maybe we won’t have to if/when the clover takes over but we still have grass so we mow to limit tick habitat and to help the septic field evaporate water in addition to draining into the soil.
One day the only part of the property that will have grass/clover is the area of the septic field 🤞although it’s not impossible the town will have us on city water/sewer before we get there.