>Will this kill the bugs busy eating away my precious grape vines and >shade area without harming the vine. That is used tobacco and some >soap liquid mixed with water and pump it from a hand sprayer? Got >sunlight soap here for the dishes, lemon scent even. > >Summary. >1/ 1 gallon of water/juice extracted from cigarette butts. >2/ 1 cup of liquid soap normally used for dishes. >3/ Mix, strain and spray on my grape vine. >4/ Do not do this in the kitchen with other cooks present. > >Doug
Nicotine will kill everything else too, including the bugs that eat the bugs eating your grapevines. It won't kill the vines though. Best Keith >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Fred Finch >To: <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org>biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:47 PM >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Lawn question off topic > >Jim, > >Instead of ammonia, get a pack of chewing tobacco. Soak it in a >gallon of water for a day in the sun. Strain the tobacco out and >then add the dish soap. Spray it on the buggies. The nicotine is >absorbed into the little critters and they die. The plants don't >care either way about the stuff. I do this on the roses that I >have. Works great. > >Another thing that I have done is grabbed the coffee can of butts >that my nieghbor had. He thinks I am nutz anyway but the look on >his face when I asked him for them was priceless. I soaked that for >a day then strained that. Worked as well as the chewing tobacco and >was free. Smelled nasty but did the trick just the same. > >fred > >On 6/18/06, JJJN <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Robert, >I was told that if you take one cup Lemon dish soap and mix with one cup >lemon ammonia and spray like you would with a pesticide bottle that you >hook on the end of a garden hose. At first I thought the idea sounded >good but then what is in all that stuff? and if it kills the bad guys >whats it doing to the good ones. Have you heard of this? What do you >think? I tested a tiny bit on some catipillers and it sure killed them >and quick, but again that would not be the entire goal if the product >screws up 10 other cycles to do so. I wish I knew more about bugs. I >suppose you may have some luck if you can apply it in a way that was to >the single point missing everything else. >Jim > >robert and benita rabello wrote: > > >Chris Lloyd wrote: > > > > > > > >>Some compost has virtually no ability to fertilise anything, I got caught > >>out this year with the half ton I got for growing tomatoes in. It was > >>supposed to be composted household waste and tree leaves, looked >good, smelt > >>good and will probably make a good soil improver but I had to start adding > >>chicken poo to save the tomatoes. Perhaps the nutrients got >washed out of it > >>but I'm going back to rotted horse manure next year. Chris > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > I've found that the commercial composts are sterilized with heat to > >kill weed seeds. This also kills all of the soil fauna, which is > >responsible for fertility. I made that mistake once, and since then > >I've relied on my own compost. My trees are happier (though I'm STILL > >have insect and fruit problems) and look far more lush than they have in > >the past. > > > > > >robert luis rabello > >"The Edge of Justice" > >Adventure for Your Mind > ><http://www.newadventure.ca> http://www.newadventure.ca > > > >Ranger Supercharger Project Page > ><http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/>http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
