Re: Cayenne Pepper
George: I use it to keep ants from crawling under the door and into
the kitchen.
Glenn Peters
George Webster wrote:
>
> Yesterday a gardner friend of mine
> (who does not grow pumpkins) told me that
> he uses cayenne pepper to control insects.
>
> He dilutes a teaspoon of cayenne in
> 4 cups of hot water. He then filters this
> solution thru a screen. He puts this in his
> sprayer and sprays the leaves of his plants.
> He uses this on tomatoes, eggplant, bell
> peppers.......well, on just about everything
> in his vegetable garden. He is very careful
> to spray only the leaves, not the fruit.
> He claims that it does not hurt his plants
> at all. He says it controls aphids, cuke
> beetles, whiteflies, etc. He applies it
> twice during the growing season.
>
> Hmmm, if I was an insect and got a taste
> of cayenne.....I would probably go
> elsewhere !!
>
> Anyone ever heard of using this on
> pumpkins ??
>
> George Webster
> Napa, Ca
>
> p.s. - perhaps a light spray of this on
> the pumpkin might make the deer look
> elsewhere for a meal.
>
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