Subject: Re: Cucurbits
From: [email-masked] (Hitoshi Ogiwara)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 14:48:59 GMT
Newsgroups: bionet.plants

To kill aphids you can use cigarretts.
Soak a cigarrette in water (about 500ml) over night.
Add wetting agent.
And spray it.

It is a natural substance(nicotine) but it is poisonous.
You have to handle with care.

To control fungi, natural substance so called "moku-saku'
(tree acetic acids?) is used in Japan.  
But I do not know what it is. Sorry.

Hitoshi Ogiwara
Tohoku National Agricultural Experiment Station
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishery, Japan.