"McGerm" wrote in message
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I have been catching up on my garden reading here in Zone 6. One of
the things I picked up at the library was a DVD on tree and shrub
care. Among the things it said to do was to use a 'clean-up tonic'
once every two weeks to discourage insects and diseases. The DVD made
it sound like a very good thing to do.

Clean-Up Tonic
1 Cup lemon-scented liquid dish soap
1 Cup of antiseptic mouthwash
1 Cup of chewing tobacco tea

The tobacco concerns me, specifically tobacco mosaic virus. Will this
treatment spread the virus? According to sources online TMV infects
and kills tomatoes/peppers/eggplant/ cubits, annual flowers, orchids,
and hundreds of other ornamentals.

Jim

best advice I can give with those ingredients is this, in the following
order:

Enjoy the tobacco in some paper with a filter whilst drinking a cup of tea
in the morning. Wash the cup in the lemon scented dish washing liquid & set
aside to drain. Gargle with mouthwash before you kiss your wife good bye in
the morning. Sounds like a far better use for the 'clean up tonic' to me.

rob