• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I spray my garden with couple of cigarettes worth of tobacco water once in a while - works great as a natural insecticide!

    I also used to live next to a tobacco plantation in Thailand once and the plant itself is quite incredible - basically untouchable by disease or insects so completly hands free and the fields are really cozy.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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        13 hours ago

        I am sure they think that it is the tobacco that is a insecticide and not the nicotine that was added to said tobacco…

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          22 minutes ago

          They don’t add nicotine to tobacco, tobacco plants produce nicotine. That’s why people have smoked it for 100s of years.

          I hadn’t heard of this, but as far as insecticides go, this sounds about as benign as possible.

      • Slovene@feddit.nl
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        13 hours ago

        No, it’s an actual thing. My parents also soak tobacco in water and then use it in their garden. But I don’t know if it actually does anything or not because I’m also too lazy to look it up