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- From: "PINC" <pinc@svn.net>
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: Neem
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 17:39:04 -0700
We made a
natural pesticide (what an oxymoron) and a fungicide in Bali using Neem,
ginger, tumeric, galanga, EM4, molasses (which was the hardest thing to get in
Bali) a little alcohol and some other things. It seemed to work on a fungus
that was on some of the limes. A local gardener said he had good luck with it
on some insects. We didn't have much of an insect problem, but fungi in the tropics
was more of an issue. In the tropics, it has to be used frequently and
consistently to work. Ideally, we want
to deal with those issues by creating healthy soil. If anyone
wants the recipe, I could dig it out of my miles of piles of files. Penny -----Original
Message----- Aloha, I know an
'elder' woman from India who tells me that neem is somewhat of an all-purpose
antibiotic/disinfectant/etc. there (among other things) - simplest recipe she
mentioned was to simmer leaves in water for 10+ minutes. Don't know if
this solution would repel bugs from plants or not or is simply for a topical
antibiotic...I've used a neem-based bug juice that was quite effective at
keeping New England mosquitoes and blackflies at bay; much better than a
citronella-based one I tried. One could
process home-grown neem to extract the oil for various uses, using similar
methods to those used for extracting other plant oils, I would guess. I
will be planting some on my land in Hawai'i this winter...maybe in a couple
years I will have more info! ;-)
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Neem,
Dianne Forster, 09/07/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Neem, mbgrey, 09/08/2000
- Re: Neem, Greg, 09/09/2000
- Re: Neem, Scott Pittman, 09/09/2000
- Re: Neem, John Schinnerer, 09/09/2000
- RE: Neem, PINC, 09/09/2000
- Re: Neem, Marsha Hanzi, 09/10/2000
- Re: Neem, Dianne Forster, 09/10/2000
- Re: Neem, Dianne Forster, 09/10/2000
- RE: Neem, askpv, 09/10/2000
- Re: Neem, permed, 09/14/2000
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