Homemade Pesticide

Cigarettes are good at killing people, so it's no surprise they're also good at killing pests. My wife has begun collecting cigarette butts to make pesticide for her garden. She soaks them in water for several days (see photo), then adds more water to the solution before spraying.

It's a technique one of her cousins, who smokes, told her about.

The pesticide itself may be no better for the environment than commercially-produced stuff, but at least it doesn't come in a plastic container, no energy was consumed in its making, and it hasn't been trucked hundreds of kilometers from factory to customer.