Tim Perry writes:
Get a pound of fag ends, pour boiling water over them, strain the
liquid, then
dilute a bit more and spray. Don't eat crops for 1 week as it won't do
you much good, but after then the spray will have broken down and is
harmless.

This will shift just about any bug that crawls or flies.

When this was mentioned on a previous occasion, someone cautioned about
its use on tomatoes because it is a way to pass on the mosaic virus from
the tobacco leaf to your tomatoes.

On a local gardening program (Vasili's Garden, tvs and sbs), he once
visited a garden with the best out of season tomatoes you'd ever see. The
gardener had some strange, but undeniably successful, ideas. One was that
she would collect cig butts from all her friends and (as I recall) spread
them about the tomato bed, on the surface. It must have been one of the
untidiest garden beds you'd see. But she had tall laden tomato plants in
Syd or Melb in the middle of winter.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)