[Terrapreta] Wood vinegar pesticide

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

Len,

I don't have any personal experience.

Just type - "wood vinegar" aphids - into your favourite search engine  
and you will find some references on the 'net.

Gerald


On 31-Jul-07, at 11:24 AM, Len Walde wrote:

> Gerald:
>
> Thanks for the wood vinegar information.  One question:  How does  
> it work on aphids? A real problem for me.  Anyone else know?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Len Walde
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Van Koeverden"  
> <vnkvrdn at yahoo.ca>
> To: "Jeff Davis" <jeff0124 at velocity.net>
> Cc: <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 9:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Wood vinegar pesticide
>
>
>> I've translated some of the pesticide uses of wood vinegar from the
>> Thai language on the A.T.A. web site:
>>
>> 1.  for fungus (mildew?) on tomatoes and cucumbers, spray at a
>> concentration of 1:200
>> 2.  for tomato root rot, water base of plant at concentration of  
>> 1:200
>> 3. for cabbage, to repel insects, use concentration of 1:1500 in  
>> watering can
>> 4. for corn, to repel insects, spray 1:300 concentration
>>
>> Gerrit
>>
>> On 30-Jul-07, at 11:33 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
>>
>>> Robert wrote:
>>>> Another product that is a bi-product of charcoal production  
>>>> that  is said
>>>> to  work as an effective pesticide is bamboo vinegar (Liquid  
>>>> smoke).
>>>
>>> Robert, I was thinking about that. My Gas-of-Fire produces
>>> something like  that and I was considering giving that a try. I  
>>> bet just the smell
>>> would  do the trick.
>>>
>>> Hmmmmm, so with the correct gasifier we can produce a gas fuel to
>>> heat our  green house (well, maybe I need one), charcoal for  
>>> Terra Preta and
>>> now a  pesticide!
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope this all works out!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeff
>
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