Re: [gardeners] Whitefles
Bargyla Rateaver (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:57:27 +0100
yes, but when I keep suggesting to improve the soil, the real remedy, I get angy
replies.
Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
> This guy is a loose cannon, at it again. If you follow his instructions,
> can he restore your child's life if she or he drinks some of your tobacco
> concoction? No, he cannot. Tobacco used to be sold in the U.S. for use as
> a pesticide, but it was taken off the market because of it's
> danger. Nicotine also soaks through the skin, should you spray into the
> wind. Margaret L
>
> >RE: Rodales "Color Handbook of Garden Insects" by Anna Carr. Pg 206.
> >Printed 1997.
> >
> >Control with Tobacco Dust or tobacco tea.
> >
> >We have 3 types of whitefly here,
> >greenhouse, silver leaf and banded.
> >
> >Tobacco,, Use chewing tobacco or a cigar. All varieties of these tobacco's
> >have been TMV free for over 30 years.
> >
> >Effect on beneficials? I have hundreds of Dragonflies in my garden,
> >Dragonflies are the most sensitive to excess fertilizers and pesticides of
> >all the benefical insect.
> >
> >Toxic level of tobacco, So low that it does not need an EPA label.
> >
> >Byron
> >
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