Re: tobacco attack

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• Subject: Re: tobacco attack
• From: N* M* <n*@wolfenet.com>
• Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:28:08 -0800
• In-Reply-To: <002f01bd575a$13668180$0b682399@default>

I use crushed garlic and a touch of vegetable oil, steeped for a few days
in water then strained and sprayed. Keeps the bugs (especically aphids)
away until the rain washes all the fragrance away.

Also, plant a few cloves of garlic among your plants. Keeps bugs at bay and
gives you a bonus too.

As for tobacco tea, I'd avoid it since you could get mosaic virus.

--Natalie


>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.
>
>Or, if possible, dip the infested plants in warm, soapy water.
>
>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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Natalie McNair-Huff
Publisher/Editor Mac Net Journal
http://www.blol.com/web_mnj/

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