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Vermont

The bleach and ammonia mixture helped save my plants after an a attack by cucumber beetles. I can home at lunch and i was out of seven so i put my resporater on and made the mix and put it in a spay bottle and covered my plants. The bug started going down very quickly and the plant was save despite a yellow spot here or there. Does anyone know what makes this stuff work, i know it is poisonious to humans but is just as bad as 30% perioxide or or bug sprays. The best thisng is that it is cheap and my plant has gone out three feet since i did this last sunday.

6/18/2004 10:14:05 PM

Northern Cambria, Pa.

One should never mix bleach with ammonia. The mixture produces clorine gas and may also produce Hydrogen tricloride or Hydrazine(rocket fuel). See this article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A795611

6/18/2004 10:38:48 PM

Wichita, KS

You made mustard gas. I'm glad you are alive, and that it killed your bugs, but don't do it again!

Following is a poem by a WWI soldier about mustard gas. He died a couple of weeks after he wrote it.

(2) Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum est (1917)

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in.
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

6/19/2004 2:03:38 AM

Cologne / Germany

"Now that we know how to produce and use chemical weapons in the patch, next lesson we´ll learn how to turn our AG´s into neat little nail bombs", the teacher said and left the classroom.
But for some reasons he never returned to school and the class is still waiting for answers...

6/19/2004 5:50:09 AM

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I have a customer with a degree in environmental chemistry who also happens to be the brew-master for his employer's 500 gallon per day compost tea habit. I won't go into details, but brewing biological weapons like anthrax & e-coli are just too easy. The irony is that neither of them would actually control insects. Just us.

6/19/2004 7:47:06 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

go ahead and go into details...what is he growing that consumes 500 gal's a day of tea?

6/19/2004 5:58:07 PM

Kenyon, Mn.

Good Question Blkcloud, what Would one do with 500 gallons a day of tea?? That is alot, considering I'm applying my tea to a 6000 sq. ft. Food garden, 6 misc. flower beds, two annual beds, 3 100 sq. foot perrenial beds and my 5 pumpkins, and using about 15 gallons every two weeks!!

6/20/2004 10:11:41 AM

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PepsiCola World headquarters in Purchase NY.

6/20/2004 11:07:45 AM

Wichita, KS

Does he water the landscape with anything besides tea? I mean, does he ever just use plain old water?

6/20/2004 2:58:38 PM

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Water too. The place is over 100 acres & is rumored to be the most intensely maintained public garden on Earth. Though 500 gallons sounds like a lot, ir is barely scratching the surface on a complex garden of this magnitude. Since the tea does nothing to control turf diseases, I end up selling them about 30,000 lbs of grass seed every year.

6/20/2004 7:06:10 PM

Kenyon, Mn.

I'll but that, was management for fourteen years with Pepsi, been there

6/21/2004 5:56:12 AM

Kenyon, Mn.

I'll Buy That...LOL

6/21/2004 5:56:38 AM