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Hi
Doug,
I've
used a mixture of soap and isopropanol (rubbing alcohol) with good
results. This mixture is a contact poison that only works while wet.
That means you actually have to get the spray on to the beasties and repeated
applications are usually necessary. I would suggest is that you
reduce the liquid soap to about 1 to 2 tbsp (15 - 30ml) and add 1 cup
of alcohol - don't know if methanol will work. The alcohol helps to
get rid of the hard bodied bugs; you know, the ones that work out
regularly. Good Luck
Doug
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
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:47
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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
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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:
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>
>>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.
>
>
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