Hydrogen Peroxide

[Blondie]

Did anyone ever hear about this method of insect control?

"GARDENING WITH HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
This will be the most phenomenal article you will ever read. It deals with something as simple as H2O2 (Peroxide) and is harmless to all good things. I have been gardening for about 40 years and was wondering why bad bugs had to have a very specific pesticide to control them." from:

http://www.landrights.com/Hydrogen_Peroxide.htm

[Abzug Hoffman]

Did anyone ever hear about this method of insect control?

"GARDENING WITH HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
This will be the most phenomenal article you will ever read. It deals with something as simple as H2O2 (Peroxide) and is harmless to all good things. I have been gardening for about 40 years and was wondering why bad bugs had to have a very specific pesticide to control them." from:

http://www.landrights.com/Hydrogen_Peroxide.htm

I don't think this guy is very smart.

[Whirlwind]

I think you are too dismissive.

[Border Ruffian]

This kind of stuff always tempts me because I know there's got to be a simpler and non-patented solution(pun intended) than those pricey mass-marketed mystery chemicals that are offered for every little problem.

On the other hand, I can't see what hydrogen peroxide would do to keep bugs away. It's very unstable and a little light or heat, or even just agitation, turns it back into water. That's why it always comes in those opaque bottles with warnings on back about heat and shaking. Does it oxidize something on the plant and create a new chemical that the bugs don't like? I can't find any information about this. The article mentions ladybugs being scarcer, but that's not really a good thing. It killed the aphids maybe? Other harmful bugs are scared off by the aphids' absence? No idea.

Saw a couple peroxide and garden related articles that mention its use to kill problem fungi around the garden which makes sense because single cell life can't handle oxidation and that's why it's used as a disinfectant.

[COTW]

... I can't see what hydrogen peroxide would do to keep bugs away. It's very unstable ...
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Maybe he maintains a constant presence in his garden and that is what is scaring everything off.

[Dasyurus Maculatus]

H2O2 will act as a bactericide and kill off microbes. It will also sterilise planted rhizomes tubers and seeds of any surface yeasts, moulds and fungi whose spores/zygotes would be rendered biologically unviable by a strong oxidising medium.

In applying H2O2, it may disrupt the food-chain and kill off macrobe predators and tiny insects further up the food-chain hierarchy by starving them of microbial prey and yeast/fungi as a food substrate and nutrient source. I can see that H2O2 could be beneficially applied to selected planting applications.

Other chemicals are used for food-chain disruption purposes too: An infamous example is the Mercury-based toxic coating that used to be sprayed over bulk grain (in 'Turd World' countries) to deter Mice and Rats from eating seed-grain.

The latter type of chemical dosing is no longer done as two-legged rodents in the Turd World tended to pilfer the seed grain for cooking uses and damage/poison themselves as a result.

[Kind Lampshade Maker]

Did anyone ever hear about this method of insect control?

"GARDENING WITH HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
This will be the most phenomenal article you will ever read. It deals with something as simple as H2O2 (Peroxide) and is harmless to all good things. I have been gardening for about 40 years and was wondering why bad bugs had to have a very specific pesticide to control them." from:

In stronger concentrations, this should work wonders for head lice extermination. After doing so, one might start taking on similarities with Debbie Harry