Good Morning, Phil and Laura
What a great post! I think a bunch of us will use that one.
Here's another "tea" for the garden that I use for controlling the gnats that can live in the soil of our
succulents:
1 Cup of cheap pipe tobacco (purchased by the can)
4 Cups of very hot water
Let it steep for about three hours (or more, if you want to just leave it overnight).
Strain into a spray bottle after it cools & then go gnat-hunting. Throughly soak the soil around the
plant with this stuff and the gnats will disappear. During the "season," you'll have to do it two or three times for total control.
This concoction CANNOT be used on ANY of the nightshade family (did I find out the hard way that nasturtiums were a family member? Yup. 'maters, too).