[Aunt Sally]

Please don't eat anything that you have sprayed with it !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis#Toxicity

That's why home concoctions are banned by the EU.

[hubballi]

Well as they are now stripping my white current I have taken drastic action and sprayed with foxglove leaves. It's a natural chemical free solution I like (if it works) The beggers are just impossible to get rid of by sight, even on just one bush. You never find them all. As soon as the leaves on the goosberrys and currants show next season out will come the foxglove spray for sure.

There is no telling some people

So why would the |Telegraph publish it if it was harmfull. I think you will find that foxglove flowers are toxic.

[aelf]

Well as they are now stripping my white current I have taken drastic action and sprayed with foxglove leaves. It's a natural chemical free solution I like (if it works) The beggers are just impossible to get rid of by sight, even on just one bush. You never find them all. As soon as the leaves on the goosberrys and currants show next season out will come the foxglove spray for sure.

There is no telling some people

So why would the |Telegraph publish it if it was harmfull. I think you will find that foxglove flowers are toxic.

The entire plant is toxic including the seeds. Maybe the columnist in the telegraph isn't as well informed as our moderators. You say that your concoction is chemical free when in fact it is full of poisons. How , do you think, it kills the bugs? In the end, the stuff is illegal for a good reason and using it is dangerous.

[hubballi]

I am not eating the leaves of the goosberry, white currents. Read the article, the advice was from a head gardener.

[Beetroot queen]

I am not eating the leaves of the goosberry, white currents. Read the article, the advice was from a head gardener.

No but the spray would be on the fruit or are they fruit less

[Aunt Sally]

Hubbulli, 

We don't generally allow discussion of home made pesticides here as it is illegal to use them.  You do as you wish in your own garden but we advise people not to use non proprietary toxic substances on their food as there is now way of knowing what the concentration of the toxins are in home made pesticides.

I now feel I need to lock this topic.