Re: Magic fertilizer mixes?
- To: <perennials>
- Subject: Re: Magic fertilizer mixes?
- From: "* <z*@email.msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 23:22:57 -0800
NY and fine, no co op ext recommended only said not harmful in the solution
I brought in unless served instead of iced tea, calm down
people............... been using for years, apparently my bed havent heard
of all of your worries, Nicotiana is gorgeous, petunias are beautiful and
perhaps the boiling helps, I dont know, it just works for me...... Thanks
again.......
-----Original Message-----
From: dorsett <dorsett@kiva.net>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, November 10, 1997 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: Magic fertilizer mixes?
>...
>plants (I dont use on veggies) I find it much safer and in its spray that I
>make it is quite safe, (per cooperative extension. Thank you for your
>concern...
>********
>Plantermom,
> Where do you live...what state and county?
>
> Your tobacco solution is an ineffective pesticide if it is quite
safe....so
>IT ISN'T REALLY SAFE! I worry about you working with the concentrated
solution,
>which is toxic and can be absorbed *through* your *skin*! It can also
infect
>ornamentals like petunias and nicotiana with tobacco mosaic virus....if the
>tobacco you used for your solution carried that virus.
>
> I also wonder about the cooperative extension agent recommendation, since
>tobacco based products have been withdrawn from the American market...with
good
>reason. They are supposed to recommend legal products of proven
effectiveness,
>applied according to product label directions. The person who suggested
this
>product to you was out of line, if they were working with extension
services.
>
>Jerry Baker's formulas sometimes show good short term results, but
perennials
>are plants for the long term, and tend to suffer under his recommended
>ministrations.
>
>Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 <dorsett@kiva.net>
>Midwest Gardener http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/430
>Gardening splash page http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/gardening.html
>The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to press the 'send' key.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
>message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
