WARNING! Tobacco is dangerous for you BUT not your garden
By Ann LeFlore
@poehere (15123)
French Polynesia
November 12, 2015 1:07pm CST
I bet none of you had any idea that tobacco makes a fantastic organic pesticide. It’s a shame the tobacco industry doesn’t seem to understand they are growing a second billion dollar a year plant. What the industry focuses on is producing products that people smoke and inhale into their system. Tobacco when inhaled or even eaten will eventually kill you one way or another. That’s what makes it the idea plant for controlling bugs in your garden.
Here in Tahiti I have a giant organic garden that I grow different vegetables and fruits for the local markets and people who stop by the garden to buy. I have never once used a single toxic product in my garden and I don’t use Bio products either. But I do use tobacco and I grow this beautiful, deadly plant around my garden.
The beautiful large green leaves of the plant make the best organic pesticide you have ever used. I discovered this one day when I was talking with one of my clients. They asked me what was this plant and I explained it was tobacco. They noticed that the leaves of the tobacco plants weren’t eaten from bugs. I had never noticed this one before and I used the plant around my tomatoes, cabbage, kale, and other green leaf vegetables to control the bugs.
After this I started cutting the leaves from the plants and soaking them in a drum of water for 2 weeks. Every now and then I would stir the water and watch the green leaves turn to slim and dissolve. The water had a strong order and was a dark green color.
Once sprayed on the plants the bugs stayed away. I no longer had a pest problem in my garden. Tobacco used in this form is excellent and can be sprayed on any plant in your garden. The sticky residue, smell, and order will keep bugs from eating the plants in your garden.
Tobacco pesticide isn’t harmful to your health. Why? Because when it rains the plants are washed clean and you need to spay again. When you cut your plants or food and wash them all the tobacco pesticide you sprayed on them is washed away. The sticky residue doesn’t stick to the plants and isn’t harmful to your health. But the water you spray on the leaves of your plants will kill bugs. If a bug eats the leaves of your plant is it lethal to them and they die.
What is fantastic about tobacco it isn’t observed into the plant and only stays on the surface of the leaves. So next time you have a bug problem in your garden try buying a few packages of rolling tobacco and soaking it in a container. Spray this around and on top of your plants. You’ll see that the bugs are gone and your plants are beautiful.
Image source - garden Tahiti
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
12 Nov 15
That's a pretty expensive method of bug control - in some places smokes are $10 a pack if not higher.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
12 Nov 15
@AbbyGreenhill Yes I think you are right on this one. Plus you might need to get special permission to do this. I grow it for the garden and it seems to be fine because I don't sell the leaves or even harvest them. I don't grow enough to say that it is a product for resale. So here I don't have a lot of problems growing the few plants I have in my garden. A normal home garden would only need 1 plant to do what I do with it. You could use 6 to 8 big leaves to make a barrel of green stinky water to speay on your plants. Yes it does stink I will tell you the truth on this one.
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@birjudanak (14316)
• India
15 Nov 15
its nice till today i not know about it but today i get something to new which may be help for me in future,thx for sharing nice post.
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@birjudanak (14316)
• India
15 Nov 15
@poehere yeah it show that if you use some unwanted thing on proper way then it will be usefull
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@TheHorse (238398)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Nov 15
@poehere Yeah, I pretend to hate those little rascals, but I actually don't have anything against them. They were just doing what hungry and thirsty ground squirrels do. I wouldn't want to kill them, but I wouldn't mind spraying the plants if it discouraged them from eating them. I'll have to wait until Spring to find out, though. I should bookmark your post and come back to when planting time comes.
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@TheHorse (238398)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 Nov 15
@poehere I sent a link to your post to myself in an email. I'll get back to it in February (Spring comes early here). Our ground squirrels don't hibernate (the ones up North do), so I'll be using your formula as as soon as things start to sprout. I'm a scientist by nature (and encourage the kids I work with to be the same), so I'll probably leave some plants unsprayed IF it rains a lot, to see if the drought affected the ground squirrels' behavior toward our garden.

@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
No it doesn't harm bees at all. You should see all the bees we have in our garden. I think this is perfect and it is one one of the best ways I have to control bugs in our garden. I am basically spraying on my plants. The leaves are soaked in water and turns the water a blackish green color. I only spay the plants with this water and it washes off when it rains. I don't find this solution harms the bees at all. I have hundreds of them in our garden daily.
@Castlerock34 (2255)
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
12 Nov 15
I had no idea, thank you for the awesome info.







