You're the second person to recommend elk gloves, I really need to look into these! We do have a lemongrass tick repellant but to date I'm not sure it works very well because some days I wear it and some I don't and I haven't noticed a bitlg difference, maybe it just isn't very strong 🤔 I'd like to plant a lot more herbs directly in the yard, wondering if that might have some impact but maybe if they aren't concentrated it won't matter, but at least I'll have more herbs lol.