Talking to a chap today who told me to have a quick smell of some liquid in a bucket The smell made me gut turn. Any way he said put rhubarb leavs in a bucket of water and give it a month or two with a lid on and use it for spraying your brassicas Its supposed to keep the cabbage white butterfly off. Or kill the brassicas
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if you boil some nettle leaves up and dilute 50/50 with water thats supposed to keep butterflies off your cabbages so i guess it would work on brassicas aswellmy plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ
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This technique (the rhubarb leaf one) has been used by Terry Walton (Jeremy Vine show), mentioned in his book & on the TV programme The Big Dig. I haven't tried it myself though, I just use Enviromesh tightly fastened down which has worked a treat.
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Originally posted by SarzWix View PostThis technique (the rhubarb leaf one) has been used by Terry Walton (Jeremy Vine show),
I was going to put some in a spray can and give it away but Mrs D siad no
So i just filled the watering can and used it you can also use it on your beoad beans so i have been toled so going to get some brewing this weekSome things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors
Dobby
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An old gardeners trick with rhubarb leaves was to put some leaf at the bottom of each brassica to ward off clubroot or cabbage root fly! This actually worked for me, surprisingly, and I'm sure I read somewhere it was because of the Oxalic acid in the rhubarb leaves!
Maybe it's the Oxalic acid that is the active ingredient in the rhubarb spray that kills the caterpillars?
I did manage to find this on Wilkepedia:-
"Vaporized oxalic acid, or a 6% solution of oxalic acid in sugar syrup, is used by some beekeepers as an insecticide against the parasitic Varroa mite."
Having said all this, I know that making ones own concoctions is frowned upon by the EEC and I think that under the Pestcide Regulations it is actually illegal!My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
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On which note Snadger, Is it true that the EU have withdrawn Derris too?...apparently incase anyone should ingest it....well the darwinist in me thinks that if your stupid enough to eat it?snort it at the lottie BBQ you'll be doing the planet's bloodline a favour.
Always amuses me that welsh Terry. The thing that made me wonder was as he was saying it this cabbage whit was flitting round his brassicas but also if they are lime loving doesn't the oxalic acid work against that?
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Originally posted by Dobby View Postoopp Guilty as charged and will keep doing it cos it worked for us last year why spend money when you dont need to its also organic
I thought it was also a feed
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Originally posted by davefromthechipie View PostWould you put amanita phalloides or anyother toxic plants on your food ? no ! yes organic but deadly putting a rubarb leaves on the roots fine but on the parts your eat ? If your that desperate to use high levels of poison just buy the tested shop got sprays or just nets or flowers that put off CWB , The old ways arnt always the best
Incidentally, it's not being used as a pesticide, but a repellant, so the pesticide rules shouldn't come into it.Last edited by SarzWix; 22-03-2008, 08:36 PM.
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yea Sarzwix thats what i thought
I also heard that you can plat marrigolds near your brassicas to repel white fly we had them near the toms last year in the green house and worked a treat
now all I need is something for the ants yes there back seen them yesterday in the green house hate the little buggersSome things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors
Dobby
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