oli 80 wrote:another weird tip for those who smoke, they put the butts to soak in the water for a few days then water the vegetable garden or the flower beds, does that give off odors that repel slugs, I don't know
http://www.certiferme.com/jardin/consei ... s-364.htmlah damn it was for aphids butts juice
There, no mystery. One of the very first "insecticides" to be withdrawn from the market, as early as the 70s (no doubt; from memory), was nicotine! I still have a memory of my father's garden shed, with a metal can with a red tag, and a large skull, which was nothing but a nicotine solution.
It disappeared from the market in my younger years.
And it is "rediscovered" by the ecologists who smoke. The same ones who campaign against glyphosate, much less dangerous. Or who get alarmed because the hay I use is not "organic"!
Sorry, smokers, if there are any: eat anything, with the poison that you swallow every day, nothing can happen to you via the food! [this is a joke, because the effects of different toxicants are cumulative, even there can be synergies between pollutants]
Note that the new insecticides involved in the case of bees (Gaucho, etc ...) are ... NEO-
NICOTINEÏDES ... Clearly in the texts: "new molecules similar to nicotine"