The cigarettes I bought to boil up and spray on caterollars must have been lightweight because it didn’t work. Nor does my stock of Derris dust. I found this recipe online, which I’ll try next:
2 chillis
2 clove of garlic
add water and whizz with stick blender, or in blending machine; filter through kitchen roll into a sprayer, and top up with extra water.
Add a dash of washing up liquid, just in case greenfly are also around.
Spray on caterpillars.
Watch caterpillars writhe around and die.
100% organic. 100% effective.
use gloves though – as it is quite strong.
This didn’t work, either. Maybe i used too much water.
or perhaps you need hotter chillis?
Decoy told me the cigarette juice was urine… maybe urine would work?
Now, there’s an idea.