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Old 02-04-2011, 12:06 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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Default Would it harm my Rose bush if cigarette ash was flicked into the soil?

In message , Sacha
writes
On 2011-04-02 11:08:24 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
said:

In message , Martin
writes
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 01:18:43 -0700 (PDT), harry
wrote:

On Apr 1, 11:00*pm, Sultana Wahab Sultana.Wahab.
wrote:
Apologies if the above question sounds stupid. A nice response
appreciated.
Thanks for reading
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Sultana Wahab
No. Tobacco is a naturally derived substsnce.
plus chemical additives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._in_cigarettes
And the argument that something is non-harmful because it's
naturally
derived is fallacious..

The ash would in fact
be benificial.
In what way would flicked cigarette ash be beneficial?

One could argue that the residual nicotine (if any) is harmful to
greenfly.


Do roses get tobacco mosaic virus? ;-)


Maybe.

URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...9.1984.tb02882.
x/abstract
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Stewart Robert Hinsley