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A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
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Grendelmort
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04-14-2012 11:10 PM
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A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
My Grandpa taught me this many years ago and he always had a large garden that produced massive amounts of of beautiful produce ! It also not only keeps the bugs away but seems to keep birds and ground critters out (rabbits, squirrels ect ...).
Spray your garden with it once a month.
What you need
2 plugs of Redman chewing tobacco
1/2 cup of molasses
1 gallon of boiling water
handful (1 cup?) of wood stove or fireplace ashes
bucket
cheese cloth or wire mesh
2 gallon pump sprayer (you can get one at a garden center for about 20 bucks)
Break up plugs of chewing tobacco and put in bucket along with ashes, pour in 1 gallon of boiling water and add molasses and let everything set for about a week in you shed or garage. Strain with cheese cloth or wire mesh.
Take pump sprayer and add 1/2 cup of the "tea" and 2 12 ounce beers. Fill the rest with water and use sprayer and spray plants in your garden.
You can use a spray bottle also, just use 2 tablespoons of the "tea" and about 1/4 of a beer, fill the rest with water.
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Geogal 
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04-14-2012 11:12 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
I was gonna say tobacco!
Well known for it!
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Clever Trevor
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04-14-2012 11:19 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Grendelmort
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04-14-2012 11:20 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
Also it's important that it's "wood ashes" only - don't use anything out of a burn barrel or pile where plastic or anything else like that has been burned.
If you are having a had time getting ashes, just go get a bag of the wood chips that you use to smoke stuff on your grill, dump a bunch on some aluminum foil, poke holes in it and fire up the grill (go ahead and cook something while you are at it) - the wood chips will burn inside the foil.
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Grendelmort
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04-14-2012 11:22 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
Clever Trevor Wrote:nettles......
Stick em in a bucket, cover with water stick a brick on em so they sink and leave for a few weeks.....
Dilute with water and fill your spray bottle....
Also have many other uses....
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/sting...000275.htm
Haven't heard that one - thanks
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Clever Trevor
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04-14-2012 11:26 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
Grendelmort Wrote:Clever Trevor Wrote:nettles......
Stick em in a bucket, cover with water stick a brick on em so they sink and leave for a few weeks.....
Dilute with water and fill your spray bottle....
Also have many other uses....
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/sting...000275.htm
Haven't heard that one - thanks
I have an abundance of them in my garden, along with dandelions and couch grass....
Nasty horrible bloody weeds, killin my back I tell ya..... 
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Grendelmort
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04-14-2012 11:33 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
The nettles don't really grow around where I live, you might find a few down along the creek. I got a good laugh the other day because I saw a big box store garden center actually selling dandelions for 2 bucks a plant as "edible greens" - hell, you can furnish a whole salad bar with what grows wild in my yard !
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Clever Trevor
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04-14-2012 11:40 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
Maybe we should start an 'alternative' food restaurant.... 
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
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LoP Guest
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User ID: 67579
04-14-2012 11:43 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
Grendelmort Wrote:My Grandpa taught me this many years ago and he always had a large garden that produced massive amounts of of beautiful produce ! It also not only keeps the bugs away but seems to keep birds and ground critters out (rabbits, squirrels ect ...).
Spray your garden with it once a month.
What you need
2 plugs of Redman chewing tobacco
1/2 cup of molasses
1 gallon of boiling water
handful (1 cup?) of wood stove or fireplace ashes
bucket
cheese cloth or wire mesh
2 gallon pump sprayer (you can get one at a garden center for about 20 bucks)
Break up plugs of chewing tobacco and put in bucket along with ashes, pour in 1 gallon of boiling water and add molasses and let everything set for about a week in you shed or garage. Strain with cheese cloth or wire mesh.
Take pump sprayer and add 1/2 cup of the "tea" and 2 12 ounce beers. Fill the rest with water and use sprayer and spray plants in your garden.
You can use a spray bottle also, just use 2 tablespoons of the "tea" and about 1/4 of a beer, fill the rest with water.
I would be hesitant to use this on any plant from the nightshade family (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers). The tobacco in the recipe could be tainted by tobacco mosaic virus, which is transmittable to all plants in the nightshade family.
A better option for plants in that family would be a neem oil based homemade concoction.
Cool recipe though, thanks for sharing!
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Looky
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04-14-2012 11:51 PM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
Ty for sharing .. I have been using something close, but this looks like it should work better.
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Astrochik
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04-14-2012 11:57 PM
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LoP Guest
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04-15-2012 12:00 AM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
Interesting formula. Conceivably the water, because it's boiling, would break down any virii. Molasses contains sulfur components. I wonder if the wood ashes are to adjust the pH?
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Grendelmort
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04-15-2012 12:10 AM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
LoP Guest Wrote:I would be hesitant to use this on any plant from the nightshade family (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers). The tobacco in the recipe could be tainted by tobacco mosaic virus, which is transmittable to all plants in the nightshade family.
A better option for plants in that family would be a neem oil based homemade concoction.
Cool recipe though, thanks for sharing!
I have used this for years and have had no problems.
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74894
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04-15-2012 12:10 AM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
....not to mention the bees and all the other beneficial insects :-(
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LoP Guest
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User ID: 67579
04-15-2012 12:16 AM
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RE: A good organic home made bug spray for your garden
Grendelmort Wrote:LoP Guest Wrote:I would be hesitant to use this on any plant from the nightshade family (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers). The tobacco in the recipe could be tainted by tobacco mosaic virus, which is transmittable to all plants in the nightshade family.
A better option for plants in that family would be a neem oil based homemade concoction.
Cool recipe though, thanks for sharing!
I have used this for years and have had no problems.
That's great! Good to know that you have not had any issues. The wisdom from our elders is so important to maintain and share.
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