Fag butts around plants

[Medbury Gardens]

On a recent TV programe in Australia it featured a gardener who would bury cigarettes butts around tomato plants,is this for real??

[Jayc]

How Bizarre, did they say why?!

[Anthony_Toronto]

Maybe he wants to experiment with tobacco mosaic virus.

[travis]

I used to see folks in Kentucky toss the tobacco stems and other tobacco waste into the garden after stripping the leaves off the cured plants and bundling them for market. They did this in the late fall after a killing frost then tilled the residue into the garden in the spring. I also saw this done on sandy loam ground in eastern North Carolina when I was in college. They told me they did this to kill nematodes. No telling what solanaceae loving viruses and fungi they were adding to their garden soil by doing this.

[Medbury Gardens]

Originally Posted by Jayc

How Bizarre, did they say why?!

I didn't see the program unfortunately,but was told about this from a friend over in Australia who watched it,i said i would post a question here to see if anyone knew why.

tobacco mosaic virus??could be Anthony,

[shlacm]

I read somewhere... someone's Grandmother used to save the spit from her chewing tobacco to use as a pesticide. I also saw where someone said it might be a source of Nitrogen.

Tobacco Mosaic Virus? I thought that wasn't really around anymore. Also, would it survive the processing of tobacco products? Or the smoking of them for that matter?

[RayR]

Nicotine has been used as a natural insecticide for a long time but I think it was banned in the U.S. in 2001, commercially anyway.

[danwigz]

I can't imagine putting the ingredients that occur in cigarette smoke around tomatoes I'm going to eat (including nitrosamines, quinoline, benzpyrene, cadmium, ammonia, nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and hydrogen sulfide). Unless of course I make the mutant tomato/tobacco hybrid: tomacco. That would make me a lot of money, but I'd feel guilty

Danwigz

[discrepancy]

I have absolutely nothing constructive to add to this thread. I've just misread "fag" as "fat" multiple times and wanted to inflict the mental image I'm suffering from on everybody else.

And Dan, that's cruel, everyone's already addicted to tomatoes without the nicotine

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by discrepancy

I have absolutely nothing constructive to add to this thread. I've just misread "fag" as "fat" multiple times and wanted to inflict the mental image I'm suffering from on everybody else.

And Dan, that's cruel, everyone's already addicted to tomatoes without the nicotine

Is that mental image filtered or unfiltered?

Trmat

[remy]

You all are too funny.


RayR,
Hi neighbor! Nice to see another WNYer here.
Remy

[danwigz]

Originally Posted by discrepancy

I have absolutely nothing constructive to add to this thread. I've just misread "fag" as "fat" multiple times and wanted to inflict the mental image I'm suffering from on everybody else.

And Dan, that's cruel, everyone's already addicted to tomatoes without the nicotine

LOL True enough. BTW that was a Simpson's reference

Danwigz

[Tormato]

www.snpp.com/news/tomacco.html

[danwigz]

Originally Posted by Tormato

www.snpp.com/news/tomacco.html

YUCK. I can't believe someone actually did that. I wonder what the tomato nicotine levels turned out to be.

Danwigz