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Omelet wrote:
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"Marie Dodge" wrote:
OK guys, my tomatoes are still covered with whitefly and their small green
babies that look like minute aphids. My friend, looking at them today, said
she believes they also have spider mites. Her eyesight is better than
mine.
The NeemOil did almost nothing nor did the Seven dust or Malathion or
Bug-Be-Gone. I also sprayed the garden with 1 Tbs. Epsom Salt per gallon of
water and if anything, the failed peppers and infested tomatoes look worse
today. Any suggestions to save our crops this year? The squash are too far
gone with millions of white fly and borers. The squash crop will be removed
and burned tomorrow. It's impossible to get the sprays under all the many
thousands of leaves. Suggestions anyone... other than to torch the three
entire gardens.
Try Tobacco tea.
Worked for mom for aphids.
Soak some cigarettes in water.
I haven't used this but the caution was that it is a wide range general
insecticide which is also toxic to mammals. If the nicotine in one
cigarette could get into your body, you would be dead.
Nicotine and Soap Wash.
This is for Aphids, Apple Sucker, Cuckoo Spit, Leaf Miners,
and all forms of young Caterpillars.
Nicotine (96 per cent purity). 1 ? - 2 ? oz.
Soft Soap... 4 oz.
Soft Water. 20 Gals.
Pour the Nicotine into the dissolved soap in the water, and apply as a
fine spray,
BUT
avoid using it on any plants the leaves of which are likely to be cooked
or eaten in less than four or five weeks. The same remark applies to
fruit.
Too bad you can't find and dump a bunch of ladybug larvae... IME,
natural predators work better than any pesticides if you can introduce
them in great enough numbers.
I bought lacewing eggs to control scale on my succulents.
Have not seen a scale since. :-)
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