Vinegar - 1001 uses!

brogusblue

Just looked on the net for more info and found this?? ... There is a piece on the rhurbarb as a Rhubarb insecticide down the page..

http://playinginthedirt.ca/2008/05/23/organic-weed-killer/

Organic Weed Killer

• 4 cups of white vinegar
• 1/4 cup table salt
• 2 teaspoons of dish soap

Mix spray on weeds in sunshine if possible.

"Rhubarb leaves can be made into an insecticide, not a weed killer…..note the rather important little medical tidbit at the end….
Rhubarb insecticide
Boil 500 grams of rhubarb leaves in a few pints of water for about 20 minutes, allow to cool, then strain the liquid into a suitable container. Add some dish detergent or soap flakes (not laundry detergent!) and spray on leaves to kill off all kinds of bugs like aphids and spider mites. * NOTE: Rhubarb leaves contain high amounts of oxalic acid. If ingested, your heart will stop and you will die.."

Lotus-eater

davemorton wrote: »

expand please.

You take a strong rhubarb stalk and Basil Faulty like, you thrash the living daylights out of the bindweed or horsetail.
You MUST remember to verbally abuse the weeds at the same time, it's a double barrelled approach, the thrashing makes it pysically weak and the verbal abuse depresses it, leading to it giving up the will for life.

You are allowed to use more than one piece of rhubarb, after all we've all used a bit of rhubarb in adult games and know that one stalk doesn't last that long.

After that, all you need to do, is take a garden fork and dig up every bit of root you can find and keep doing it as long as you see a bit of green.

I promise you it works.

A._Badger

brogusblue wrote: »

Just looked on the net for more info and found this?? ... There is a piece on the rhurbarb as a Rhubarb insecticide down the page..

http://playinginthedirt.ca/2008/05/23/organic-weed-killer/

Organic Weed Killer

• 4 cups of white vinegar
• 1/4 cup table salt
• 2 teaspoons of dish soap

Mix spray on weeds in sunshine if possible.

"Rhubarb leaves can be made into an insecticide, not a weed killer…..note the rather important little medical tidbit at the end….
Rhubarb insecticide
Boil 500 grams of rhubarb leaves in a few pints of water for about 20 minutes, allow to cool, then strain the liquid into a suitable container. Add some dish detergent or soap flakes (not laundry detergent!) and spray on leaves to kill off all kinds of bugs like aphids and spider mites. * NOTE: Rhubarb leaves contain high amounts of oxalic acid. If ingested, your heart will stop and you will die.."

Just to poke a stick through the bars of the cage, would someone like to suggest how this could be construed as 'safe', while using a product tested to within an inch of it life at the ccst of million of pounds isn't?

They are all chemicals!

cootambear

davemorton wrote: »

expand please.

rhubarb leaves are mightily toxic, you can make your own weedkiller from them, google recipes. technically, you need a licence from DEFRA

Lotus-eater

A._Badger wrote: »

Just to poke a stick through the bars of the cage, would someone like to suggest how this could be construed as 'safe', while using a product tested to within an inch of it life at the ccst of million of pounds isn't?

They are all chemicals!

It's not safe. Both are illegal.

emiff6

brogusblue wrote: »

* NOTE: Rhubarb leaves contain high amounts of oxalic acid. If ingested, your heart will stop and you will die.."

So does spinach, beetroot leaf, swiss chard, purslane.... (though not in such high concentration, and cooking breaks it down).

cootambear

emiff6 wrote: »

So does spinach, beetroot leaf, swiss chard, purslane.... (though not in such high concentration, and cooking breaks it down).

ya, but they are `organic`

Sally_A

Lotus-eater wrote: »

after all we've all used a bit of rhubarb in adult games and know that one stalk doesn't last that long.

8 hours after you posted that.....and I'm still boggled :dance::dance:

cootambear

Sally_A wrote: »

8 hours after you posted that.....and I'm still boggled :dance::dance:

cmon, everyone appreciates a stalk

annie123

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Y
after all we've all used a bit of rhubarb in adult games and know that one stalk doesn't last that long.

:rotfl:

If my keyboard keys get stuck its your fault, just spat my tea out all over it! Makes note to self not to drink tea and read and laugh all at the same time:D