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Re: [compost_tea] arthropods



Hi Judy,
Here is a recipe for an insect repellent. I've used it and it works!
Garlic/Pepper Tea

Ingredients: 2 bulbs garlic, 2 hot peppers, blender 1/2 full of water. Mix in blender. Strain solids and add to one gallon of water to make a concentrate. Use 1/4 cup of concentrate and two tablespoons of Horticultural Molasses per gallon of water for foliar applications that act as an effective insect repellent for your plants. Do not use on insect pollinated vegetable plants.

For fire ants, if you're not getting the control you want from just compost tea, you can use this recipe for mound control....rough up the mound and slowly pour into the center. It takes a gallon per average size mound.

To one gallon of compost tea, add;
-four ounces of orange oil
-two tablespoons of molasses
 
Steve Bridges
Kimas Tejas Nursery
(who has time to participate now that the nursery business has slowed down!)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: RE: [compost_tea] arthropods

Judi Stewart - Hi  In our experince you don't need special pepper tea to control mpst insects.  The normal TEA does a good job. at least on aphids.  Bob 

Judi Stewart <js@olympus.net> wrote:

Mike,

 

How did you make your garlic/pepper tea?

 

Thanks,

 

Judi

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Bosko [mailto:mjbosko@jmtsystems.com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 7:45 AM
To: compost_tea@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [compost_tea] arthropods

 

I?m lucky enough to not have to deal with fire ants here, but something worth trying?  I used to spray a strong garlic/pepper (habenaro) tea and found that it decimated a big red ant colony here.  My wife was complaining about them attacking her when she worked in her flower bed ? so I figured it wouldn?t hurt and dumped a couple cupfuls on them, next day they were all dead and gone.

 

 




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