Deter Garden Pests

Deter pests. Tobacco is a great pest deterrence especially for centipedes, caterpillars and snails that feed on crops and leaves. To drive away pests, drench the soil with a mixture of water, minced garlic and tobacco leaves. Outdoor insects cannot stand the smell of nicotine which drives them away from your plants and crops.

We’ve all seen in recent years the decline of the humble honeybee and bumblebee, which is actually pretty scary considering they pollinate an estimated 1/3 of all crops on earth. The cause is directly related to new high strength pesticides being used to grow the crops that we eat, eliminating pesky bugs by killing them by the million every year. In fact, in some parts of China some bee colonies have been completely wiped out, forcing laborers to manually pollinate their crops with paint brushes in order to make a living.

The idea is to create a pesticide that kills fungi and bacteria, while also utilizing high levels of nicotine to detract insects from eating crops rather than killing them.

• Aphid Control: mixture of 1 cup. powdered garlic,1 cup compost and 1 cup tobacco (organic preferably) is mixed with the soil and applied around the base of infested plants.

• Peach Tree Borers – Sprinkling tobacco dust around peach trees will deter the dreaded peach tree borer from infesting tree.

• Leaf Roller: mixture of tobacco dust, pyrethrum powder (dried pyrethrum flowers crumbled into a powder) is made into a solution to spray on the leaf roller.

• Garden Centipede :Drenching the soil with a mixture of water, garlic and tobacco is effective against centipede.

• Keep the mosquitoes and bed bugs away by boiling a package of chewing tobacco in a gallon of water. After letting it sit for a few hours as it cools, strain the mixture well and spray this around where pest control is needed.

  You can get rid of many pests and insects with nicotine of tobacco dust such as Flies, Mosquitoes, Aphids, Sucker, Thrips, Caterpillars,

  Ringworm, Fly Onion, Moth Winter, Ringed Silkworm, Crucifer Flea Beetles, Spider Mites, Whiteflies, Slugs, and Many Other Garden Pests.

  How to Make Tobacco Dust Pesticides Spray

  Steps-

  1. Mix 1 cup of dry tobacco in 3-4 liters of water.

  2. Let them macerate for 12-24 hours (to make strong pesticides increase the maceration period).

  3. Add 1 tablespoon liquid soap.

  4. Filter the solution with a fine sieve and remove the tobacco chips.

  5. Pour the solution on a spray bottle.

  How to Fight Specific Insects?

   Cruciferous Flea

  Tobacco dust is applied to beds with crucifer crops (cabbage, turnip, and radish) against cruciferous flea. This pest is particularly dangerous during sowing: in the cotyledon phase.

  The cruciferous fleas adopted by cabbage plants can no longer cause serious damage, but there are other pests – cabbage maggot and slugs. Tobacco powder or tobacco with lime, scattered around the plants in a 4 – 5 cm radius deter first and dry until the latter.  To control this parasite, sprinkle with a mixture of 20 g per 1 m². Mix lime, wood ash, and rock phosphate (3: 1: 1: 1) to get a better result.

  Moth

  Treat the plant with the infusion. 150 g of tobacco dust is poured with hot water, leave for a day. Filter in a bucket and added with clean water. Ready solution to use immediately.

  Spider Mite

  Indoor plants are treated with a decoction of tobacco dust when the infection is detected. After a week, the procedure is repeated. If necessary, it can be repeated again after 10-14 days

  Aphids, Thrips, Caterpillars

  Aphids, thrips, caterpillars are the leaf-eating and sucking insects. They have to deal with decoction or infusion of tobacco. The procedure must be repeated within a week.

  Cabbage Maggot and Slugs

  Mix lime or ash (1: 1) with the tobacco dust and scattered the dust around the plant in a radius of 5 cm on the ground.

  You should apply the dust twice at two-week intervals against cabbage maggot and two days against slugs in the evening when the weather remains calm.

  Ants

  The procedure is the same as in the fight against cabbage maggot flies.

  Rodents do not like tobacco smoke.so if the mice and mole have entered the greenhouses, they will be removed after fumigation. As a bonus, tobacco combustion produces carbon dioxide which contributes to the vegetation of the plants.

  
  
  

Tobacco dust use in organic gardening

1. Tobacco dust contains a high amount of Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorous, and Iron.

2. It is a great source of Nitrogen for newly grown houseplants.

3. It has a high organic matter that makes it a good fertilizer.

4. The tobacco dust promotes the active growth of the plants and also improves the yield and quality of the fruit. Moreover, it improves soil health by increasing the availability of trace elements and useful minerals.

5. Tobacco dust also acts as a natural insecticide because of the nicotine that remains in it.

6. It improves the electrical conductivity, water intake capacity, and water holding capacity of the soil.

Did you know? The use of tobacco dust as fertilizer can increase 40 % of the yield.

Composition of Tobacco Dust

The chemical composition of tobacco leaves is complex and rich, it includes not only nicotine (from 0.7 to 5%) and other alkaloids, but also organic proteins, carbohydrates, aromatic oils, etc. and minerals (calcium, potassium, magnesium, sulfur). This means tobacco dust are not only able to destroy harmful insects, but also to enrich the soil.

Dusting/ Pollination

In this method, Plants and soil are pollinated with dry tobacco dust. You can use tobacco dust in its pure form or also mix with ash or lime in equal proportions (1: 1). Generally, 1 sq.m requires 10-20 g of the mixture.

The main principle of the method is: the food of insects will be covered with a layer of dust, and they will have nothing to eat. After a while, they will start to die. With this method, plants can be treated in open areas and in greenhouses.

Spray Decoction and Infusion

To prepare the decoction,

1. Mix half a cup of tobacco dust in 1 liter of water and boil for about half an hour.

2. Add water to the initial level during evaporation.

3. Leave the broth in a dark place for a day.

4. Filter the solution and add 2 liters of water.

5. Mix a small piece of soap (10-15 g) or 1 -2 tablespoon of liquid soap. You can also add onion peel or garlic cloves in the solution.

Spray the plants with a ready solution. The event takes place 2-3 times every 7-10 days. Spray the solution on fruit trees less than 2 weeks before harvest.

The infusion of tobacco is very similar to a decoction. You need 2-3 days to make an infusion. To prepare the infusion-

1. Take 1/2 cup of tobacco dust and pour in 1 liter of hot water.

2. Infuse the solution for 24 hours and stir it periodically.

3. Filter the infused solution.

4. Add 1-2 liters of water and a piece of soap or 1-2 tablespoon liquid soap.

5. Pour the solution in a spray bottle and use it immediately after preparation.

Another Recipe:

To make infusion-

1. Take a cup of wood ash and a cup of tobacco dust and pour it in 1 liter of hot water.

2. Leave for a day.

3. Filter the resulting infusion and pour it into a bucket, add water to the full extent.

4. Add 2 tablespoons of liquid soap. Stir and spray the garden thoroughly.

Tobacco Dust as Fertilizer for Garden

1. For planting fruit trees and bushes, cups 1-2 of tobacco dust are added to each planting hole.

2. Before sowing the garden, around 30-40 g of tobacco clean per 1 sq.m are added to the soil and watered.

3. As the primary fertilizer, tobacco dust is utilized in measurements of up to 100 g per square meter once a year.

4. Tobacco dust for indoor blossoms: ½ tsp. tobacco dust is blended with 10 liters of finished soil and this blend is utilized for spring transplantation of indoor plants.

5. You can utilize it for soil fertilizer in pots with sand. Soil, sand, and tobacco ought to be taken in identical proportions.

Dusting/ Pollination

In this strategy, Plants and soil are pollinated with dry tobacco dust. You'll be able to utilize tobacco dust in its unadulterated form or moreover blend with ash or lime in equivalent measurements (1: 1). By and large, 1 sq.m requires 10-20 g of the mixture.

The primary rule of the strategy is: the nourishment of creepy crawlies will be secured with a layer of tobacco dust mixture, and they will have nothing to eat. Down the line, they will leave or start to die. With this method, plants can be treated in open areas and in greenhouses.