TOBACCO DUST FROM PESTS FOR GARDEN APPLICATION

Tobacco dust is a waste of the tobacco industry, which is nothing more than dried and crushed tobacco leaves. For manufacturers of tobacco products, such material is not interesting, but the farmers considered it a huge benefit for crop production. The persistent and intrusive smell of tobacco leaf was not to the liking of many garden pests, but because this product was massively used to maintain the health of cultivated plants.

Agricultural producers quickly got their bearings: they scattered tobacco waste into beautiful packaging and put it on the shelves of gardening stores. True, they were too shy to raise the price of this “garbage” - tobacco dust is inexpensive, and one of its packaging is enough for a long time. So, why do most summer residents visiting a horticultural store go straight to the counter with expensive chemical insecticides instead of looking at cheap and safer tobacco dust?

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With the help of a tobacco cocktail, I struggle with a wide variety of insects:

с aphids. After the 1-th treatment, it massively folds its heads, and after the 2-th (after 10 days) it completely disappears from the occupied shoots of plants;
Colorado potato beetle. This pest is fed to other regions by spraying potatoes twice with an interval of 5 - 8 days;
leaflet. To win, enough 2 - 3 treatments with an interval of 5 - 7 days;
tinker. I spray the trees in the phase of separation of the buds and immediately after the petals fall;
beetroot flea when processing beets 2 - 3 times with an interval of a week;
spider mite and thrips with double treatment of affected plants (interval 7 - 10 days);
caterpillars scoops and whitesif you spray the cabbage 2 - 3 times with an interval of 5 - 6 days.

For making tobacco dust infusion pour in a bucket 4 glasses of tobacco dust and pour 10 l of warm water; I stand in a warm place under the lid of 2 days, stirring occasionally. Then I filter the infusion through several layers of gauze, add 2 spoons of liquid soap to it.

Speed up processing helps tobacco dust decoction. Pour the same amount of tobacco powder into an enamel pan, pour 3 liters of water and simmer under a lid for about 0,5 hours. I insist for 24 hours, filter and add soap for better adhesion.

Tobacco cocktails can be prepared for future use. To do this, pour 0,5 kg of powder into an enamel bucket, pour 10 l of warm water and insist 2 days. Then I put a bucket on the stove and languish the drug over low heat for about an hour. I keep the resulting broth in a warm place for another 2 days, periodically mixing. After that, I filter it, pour it into glass containers and store it under the lid in the cellar. I use this concentrate for pest control based on 0,5 l per 10 l of water.

I am preparing a tobacco infusion with laundry soap to repel onion flies.

Dusting Tobacco Dust

Dry tobacco dust produces an equally significant effect on my site. First of all, it is worth noting its unique properties in the fight against the ubiquitous onion fly, which previously left me without onions. Since the flight of this pest falls on April-May, I’ll start the attack already at the time of landing of the sowing. For this purpose I mix tobacco dust with sifted wood ash (or slaked lime) in the proportion 1: 1, sprinkle with this mixture the furrows prepared for planting at the rate of 0,5 cups on 1 m², and then I plant sevoc in them. After 10 — 12 days after the onions rise, sprinkle the row-spacing of the beds after the next watering with the same mixture, and then thoroughly loosen the soil. I carry out this procedure another 1 times after 2 weeks.

No less effective is the duo of tobacco powder and ash that scares off the carrot fly. In order not to allow this pest to lay eggs on carrots and reproduce its voracious offspring, I dust the young plants and the soil beneath them at the beginning of flowering apple trees: it is during this period that the years of the carrot fly begin. Since the flight of this insect is extended, I repeat the procedure 2 more times with an interval of 3 weeks, adhering to the same norm - 0,5 glasses on 1 m².

Tobacco dust mixed with ash in equal proportions is the first way to scare a cruciferous flea from radishes and daikon, which, due to early maturity, I never process with chemistry. I sprinkle beds with cabbage with such odorous 1 powder every 2 weeks - this is not only a deterrent to the persistent cruciferous flea, but also an excellent method of scaring away cabbage flies and cabbage moths, as well as scoop and white butterfly butterflies that strive to lay eggs on my

FUMING TOBACCO DUST

Experienced summer residents are well aware of how difficult it is to get rid of the whitefly that has settled in the greenhouse. I hasten to share my discovery - there will be no trace of this pest if the room is fumigated with tobacco dust. With strong propagation of whiteflies, I close all the vents in the greenhouse, set fire to wet shavings and other wood debris in a metal bucket, and then pour tobacco powder on top (consumption - 0,5 kg per 10м²) Immediately I leave the room and close the door tightly behind me. After 2 - 3 hours, I open the building and carefully ventilate it. In the same way, you can instantly rid the greenhouse of massively thrived thrips and spider mites.

Fumigation is an alternative to spraying on the warpath with pests of horticultural crops - aphids, tinnitsa, spider mites, moths, etc. For this purpose, in calm weather, I set up a bucket of burnt raw vegetable debris under each tree and pour 3 - 5 glasses of tobacco dust on top of it. When fumigating shrubs, I put containers on the leeward side. I keep the crowns of plants in such smoke for about an hour. After such a procedure, no trace remains of malicious insects poisoned by caustic smoke.

ON A NOTE!

Do not forget that tobacco leaves contain nicotine, so you should not be zealous with the use of tobacco dust in the garden. First of all, this should be remembered when treating plants from pests during fruiting.

In addition, if some insect does not like tobacco, this does not mean that such an insect is certainly a pest.

It is better not to start tobacco therapy during the flowering of cultural plantings, so as not to scare away pollinating insects from them, which work in favor of the garden.

And of course, saving plants, take care of yourself: when working with this odorous product, gloves and a respirator (or gauze bandage) will not be out of place, especially if you suffer from allergies.

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2 Comments

Petr Sidnev, Tula
2023-12-22 (9:23) #

I deal with all the pests that are active in my garden in the summer with the help of tobacco dust. But for it to have an effect, it must be applied correctly.

Tobacco dust contains up to 1% nicotine; it is this substance that pests do not like. To pollinate crops of radishes, carrots and cabbage seedlings from vegetable flies and cruciferous flea beetles, I try to buy not just tobacco dust, but already mixed with ash. This drug is called Tabazol and is a reddish, lumpy, dust-free powder that can be easily taken with a pinch of fingers and is convenient to apply to the leaves. To combat onion flies, I sprinkle powder between the rows in the onion beds.
For spraying against aphids, copperheads and small caterpillars, a decoction of tobacco dust is more effective. I prepare it like this: pour half a glass of tobacco dust into 1 liter of water and boil for half an hour, adding water to the original level; then I leave it to brew for another day, after which I filter it and dilute it with water 1:2. In order for the decoction to better adhere to the leaves during spraying, I add 10 g of liquid soap to it.
To spray fruit trees and cabbage against ticks, copperheads, aphids and young caterpillars, I usually prepare an infusion.

To do this, I mix one glass of wood ash and tobacco dust (you can take 2 glasses of Tabazol), pour in 1 liter of hot water and leave for 10 hours. I filter the resulting infusion and pour it into a 2-liter bucket, adding XNUMX tbsp. spoons of liquid soap, add water to the full volume, and then spray the plants (necessarily in dry weather).

Svetlana Poretskaya
2020-01-17 (7:17) #

In my area, I try to use biological products that are safe for humans and animals in the fight against pests and diseases.
Well-established tobacco dust. I use it not only to protect plants from pests, but also bring it as fertilizer during spring digging: up to 100 g / sq.m.
To prepare a decoction in the fight against insects, I take half a glass of tobacco dust and pour a liter of water.
Boil the contents for about 30 minutes.
So that the amount of liquid remains in the same volume, when boiling, add it to the original mark. I leave the ready-made broth for a day in a dark place.

Then filter and add 2 liters of water. In a container with liquid, add a piece of laundry soap grated on a fine grater 10-15 g). I spray the plants with a ready miracle remedy two to three times a month. Such a natural insecticide helps me cope with aphids, ants and other harmful insects. Sometimes I use tobacco dust in a dry form: I pollinate it with plants at the rate of 50 g / sq.m.