I was going to mix some of this up about 7 years ago, It so happened that I asked a farmer about it and he told me that it would really work good but he also said in a joking way don't let the Government catch you. I took the bait and said why its all natural? He laughed and said that nicotine was the first commercial pesticide and it was also the first one ever banned in the US. I don't have any proof if what he said was true but the point is natural / organic stuff can be as bad as anything else if it is not used responsibly.
Jim Keith Addison wrote: >>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/ > > > _______________________________________________ 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/
