Are we here to attain the answers or the questions?
Why choose? I can't imagine a forum that only did one but not the other.
Best
Keith
>My thanks to all.
>
>Doug
>
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ednesday, June 21, 2006 8:32 PM
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> This may work for grapes but keep it the hell away from tomato plants or
> you'll find out what the tobaco mosaic virus is!
>
> Joe
>
> JJJN wrote:
>
> > I was going to mix some of this
>> Doug
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>>>>
>>>
>>> Nicotine will kill everything else too, including the bugs that eat
>>> the bugs eating your grapevines. It won't kill the vines though.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Keith
>>>
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l everything else too, including the bugs that eat
>>the bugs eating your grapevines. It won't kill the vines though.
>>
>>Best
>>
>>Keith
>>
>>
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res I have more goals to attain in
this world. Are we here to attain the answers or the questions?
My thanks to all.
Doug
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From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:13 PM
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discussion would be a help here
Doug
From: "JJJN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:33 AM
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> I was going to mix some of this up about 7 years ago, It so happened
> that I asked a farmer about it and he t
available on using nicotine, derris, rotenone, pyrethrum,
quassia, sulphur, bordeaux mixture, potassium permanganate, soft soap
and FA soap, and so on and on, but it's just another blind alley.
Best
Keith
>Doug
>
>From: "JJJN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To:
>
>Nicotine will kill everything else too, including the bugs that eat
>the bugs eating your grapevines. It won't kill the vines though.
>
>Best
>
>Keith
>
>
>
>
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>>From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Fred Finch
>>
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of
lres1Sent: June 19, 2006 9:27 AMTo:
Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSubject: Re: [Biofuel] Lawn question
off topic
Will this kill the bugs busy eating away my
precious grape vines and shade area without harming the vine. That is used
, June 19, 2006 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Lawn question off topic
> Hi Thomas,
> Thanks, I will start putting compost on soon. Every thing is going well
> except my gourds, they dont seem to like this latitude or something. My
> jeruselum artichokes are going crazy they ar
Keith Addison wrote:
>Nicotine will kill everything else too, including the bugs that eat
>the bugs eating your grapevines. It won't kill the vines though.
>
>Best
>
>Keith
>
>
>
>
This is why the whole "pest management" approach is fundamentally
flawed. Plants should be able to tolerate
bugs that eat
the bugs eating your grapevines. It won't kill the vines though.
Best
Keith
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>From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Fred Finch
>To: <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org>biofuel@sustainablelists.org
>Sent: Monday, June 19, 20
it
>was blocked with a mosquito screen stopping the poor mozzy from escaping the
>cooking.
>Doug
>
>- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Racz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To:
>Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 6:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Lawn question off topic
>
>
&
lres1 wrote:
Will this kill the bugs busy eating
away my precious grape vines and shade area without harming the vine.
That is used tobacco and some soap liquid mixed with water and pump it
from a hand sprayer? Got sunlight soap here for the dishes, lemon scent
even.
Summary.
TED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Lawn question off topic
> I have to agree here. I kept an organic lawn for 10 years. I used a
mulching
> mower to put the clippings back into the lawn and used the mower on its
> tallest setting. The rare time I wate
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Lawn question off
topic
Jim, Instead of ammonia, get a pack of chewing
tobacco. Soak it in a gallon of water for a day in the sun. Strain
the tobacco out and then add the dish soap. Spray it on the
buggies. The nicotine
Jim, Instead of ammonia, get a pack of chewing tobacco. Soak it in a gallon of water for a day in the sun. Strain the tobacco out and then add the dish soap. Spray it on the buggies. The nicotine is absorbed into the little critters and they die. The plants don't care either way about the stuf
o:
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Lawn question off topic
> JJJN wrote:
>>Hello folks, any organic lawn experts out there? I have been
>>encroaching out 75% of my lawn with food plants for both wildlife and
>>humans, but I still have this 25% and living
> If you get rotted horse manure next year ("rotted" being a word that
covers a host of sins) use it to make compost.<
We used to have a nice local farmer who used straw to bed the horses down in
and he just piled the old bedding up in one long 25 ton heap so the old end
was about 5 years old. G
ges.
Doug
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From: "robert and benita rabello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 5:18 AM
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> Chris Lloyd wrote:
>
> >Some compost has virtually no ability to fertilise anything, I got
Robert,
I was told that if you take one cup Lemon dish soap and mix with one cup
lemon ammonia and spray like you would with a pesticide bottle that you
hook on the end of a garden hose. At first I thought the idea sounded
good but then what is in all that stuff? and if it kills the bad guys
w
ck. It's much too
>valuable to me to use on large areas of lawn.
> How's the garden coming?
> Tom
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>From: "JJJN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "BIO"
>Sent: Saturday, J
Hello Chris
> > Forget about "fertilisers" (like bloodmeal,
>bonemeal etc), whether "organic" or not, as Robert says it's just
>replacing chemical fertilizers with non chemical fertilizers. Use
>sifted compost and compost tea. <
>
>Some compost has virtually no ability to fertilise anything, I got
Chris Lloyd wrote:
>Some compost has virtually no ability to fertilise anything, I got caught
>out this year with the half ton I got for growing tomatoes in. It was
>supposed to be composted household waste and tree leaves, looked good, smelt
>good and will probably make a good soil improver bu
I hate my lawn. Pointless, and the lawn owners are killing the
Chesapeake bay w/ fertilizer
robert and benita rabello wrote:
>JJJN wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello folks, any organic lawn experts out there? I have been
>>encroaching out 75% of my lawn with food plants for both wildlife and
>>humans
> Forget about "fertilisers" (like bloodmeal,
bonemeal etc), whether "organic" or not, as Robert says it's just
replacing chemical fertilizers with non chemical fertilizers. Use
sifted compost and compost tea. <
Some compost has virtually no ability to fertilise anything, I got caught
out this ye
This is a little out of date and I don't really agree with some of
it, but it might help. Forget about "fertilisers" (like bloodmeal,
bonemeal etc), whether "organic" or not, as Robert says it's just
replacing chemical fertilizers with non chemical fertilizers. Use
sifted compost and compost te
gt;
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Lawn question off topic
> JJJN wrote:
>
>>Hello folks, any organic lawn experts out there? I have been
>>encroaching out 75% of my lawn with food plants for both wildlife and
>>humans, but I still have this
JJJN wrote:
>Hello folks, any organic lawn experts out there? I have been
>encroaching out 75% of my lawn with food plants for both wildlife and
>humans, but I still have this 25% and living in town I need to keep
>it lawn. the question is how does one raise a great lawn without weed
>
eas - to bring them back. It's much too
valuable to me to use on large areas of lawn.
How's the garden coming?
Tom
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From: "JJJN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "BIO"
Sent: Saturday, Jun
Hello folks, any organic lawn experts out there? I have been
encroaching out 75% of my lawn with food plants for both wildlife and
humans, but I still have this 25% and living in town I need to keep
it lawn. the question is how does one raise a great lawn without weed
killers etc? I ha
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