This may work for grapes but keep it the hell away from tomato plants or you'll find out what the tobaco mosaic virus is!
Joe JJJN wrote: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ 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/
