Have you heard of this home made fertilizer/bug repellent?
Question:1 cup ammonia
1 cup dish soap
1 can coke
1 bottle beer
1 cup tobacco juice (see below * )
1 cup corn syrup
* take a measure of 3 fingers of chewing tobacco, place in toe of panty hose & steep in 1 gallon of water for 3 weeks
spray using a 20 gallon setting every 3 weeks on everything
Answers:
I think that's a Jerry Baker thing ( don't get me started - short version - 45 % good advice,45% hocus-pocus, 10% just plain wrong. Problem for novices: : which is which? ) Nicotine is used commercially, in gaseous form , as an insecticide . The most common target is aphids. If aphids are your problem , that recipe will likely work . Probably be better just steeping the tobacco in water, & adding a little dish soap (to make it stick). Don't use this on the solanaceae(peppers/ tomatos /eggplants /potatos, etc) . Tobacco invariably carries Tobacco Mosaic Virus , which attacks that family, & nicotine will damage tomatos directly .
I don't know where you got that but it is a nightmare. All of the sweet stuff attracts bugs the ammonia and coke and beer will damage plants and 'corn syrup' gees. Forget the mess. The tobacco juice--you can soak butts and ashes from cigs in a jar of water, strain and spray for bugs. a small shot of dish soap will help it stick to your plants. No sweet stuff!!
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It sounds like a Jerry Baker concoction.
http://www.jerrybaker.com/
I've used some of his ideas that produced great results!!
None of those ingredients will fertilise properly. The best natural fertiliser for most plants and shrubs is the herb- Comfrey. Easy to grow, spreads rapidly. Leaves steeped in water for three-six weeks. Smells terrible-great for plants.
Beer good for snails-put container down filled with beer-drowns them.
Tobacco/Water great for spraying on insects. Also boiled garlic water. And Dishwash liquid diluted in water. Wouldn't trust Ammonia, or soap. Good luck!
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