Re: tobacco attack

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• Subject: Re: tobacco attack
• From: "* O* <e*@ibm.net>
• Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:53:22 -0500

Ed;
DON'T use your wife's mixer! Nicotine is an extremely potent mammalian
poison and you don't want to take any chances (yes, I know you'd promise to
wash it out well). If you must use a nicotine spray, buy a dedicated mixer
and use it somewhere else in the house. Label everything very carefully.
Not all "natural" chemicals are safer than the manmade ones, this being a
good example.

I would go the soapy water route, if you must spray.

Gerry

At 01:21 PM 3/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Ed:
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>To continue your aversion to chemical sprays, try using "tobacco tea." Make
>it with chewing tobacco or ripped-up cigarettes (the only thing they're good
>for) and water. Shake it up well in a bottle or, if you wife is more
>understanding than mine, use the mixer in the kitchen. Spray on the plants.
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>Or, if possible, dip the infested plants in warm, soapy water.
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>Both work fine for me. I have few bugs because I look for them constantly
>and maintain clean growing areas. Even then, an occasional bug creeps in.
>
>John G. Adney
>Marion, Iowa
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