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Post by daylilydude on Nov 5, 2017 7:20:52 GMT -5
What is your go-to bug spay that you use in your vegetable garden, and do you/would you use the same one in your flower beds??
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Post by meandtk on Nov 5, 2017 8:08:52 GMT -5
No go to, but I recently grabbed Seven, so that I could quickly eradicate pests in my greens. I need to learn organic methods..,
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Post by spike on Nov 5, 2017 9:37:54 GMT -5
I did buy a small box of Seven but it is still in the garage somewhere. I don't usually have many pests. Usually a coffee can 1/4 full of water and a finger flick does the trick for me. But I am constantly out fussing about in my garden also.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Nov 5, 2017 9:55:56 GMT -5
I don't use insecticide in my gardens. If the bugs get that bad, they can have the vegetation. One of the few benefits of the cold weather here is that we don't have the severe bug infestations. Cucumber beetles have been bad the last two years, but we had a very mild winter last year. I think if the Polar Vortex would dip down and hang around for three days or so this winter, we would see far less of them next year. Not that I really want it to get that cold, but if getting that cold kills off more bugs I'm all for it. I'll use Deep Woods Off on myself when I go camping. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/AgR8NN4iidU1wy_OcyQm.png)
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Post by september on Nov 5, 2017 10:09:20 GMT -5
Insects are not usually a big problem for me, so I have not had to use an insecticide for a long time. Some years, aphids on peppers are about my only problem, and nothing takes care of them permanently. I may use some soap spray, but usually just inspect and squish and rub them right on the leaves, hoping the "death juices" may somewhat repel others.
The cabbage butterflies have taken to arriving much later in the summers in recent years -- or maybe I've been planting my broccoli a lot earlier than I used to, because I've been getting my first crop heads harvested without any sign of worms. Never did crack open the bottle of Bacillus Thuringiensis that I had in reserve for them, though I should have used it for the late broccoli side sprouts and kale which they stripped in the fall.
I would use anything on flowers that I used on veggies.
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Post by paulf on Nov 5, 2017 10:49:09 GMT -5
Squash bugs and vine borers and bean beetles are the only insects I have trouble with. The beans get a dusting of Sevin and it does fairly well. The others get picked off by hand if the eggs are on the leaves. If it is later in the year and hard to find the eggs, a dusting of Sevin is used sparingly. The plight of pollinators has been on my mind more the last several years and insecticide use in my garden has been greatly reduced and it is to the point of almost no use at all.
It has been years since an infestation of any kind. I think fall garden clean-up practices has helped in that regard. Get rid of winter homes for the bugs.
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Post by paquebot on Nov 5, 2017 11:34:06 GMT -5
Just two choices; Colorado Potato Beetle Beater or Capt. Jack's Dead Bug. Active ingredient in both is Spinosad, an organic product. It is the only thing that I have found to be 100% effective against potato beetles.
Martin
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Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 5, 2017 11:44:34 GMT -5
My main thing to fight some of the bugs I have is more of an "insect deterrent" - Surround. This works great on flea beetles on my eggplant, as well as insects on tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, and beans. However, once cherry toms, beans, or peppers start forming fruit, I stop spraying those, as it is a pain to remove, while it just wipes right off eggplant, large tomatoes, and cukes. I keep a designated sprayer with this in it at all times, along with actinovate, earlier in the season.
I have some pyrethrins for spot use, but reserve that mostly for the indoor plants.
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Post by aqua on Nov 5, 2017 15:12:13 GMT -5
Hmmm... I have been lucky enough to not need any bug killer for the past two years. But I've been working really hard for the past ten years, to attain this goal. I have a very active birdfeeder, and I think the birds help eat the bugs. I also have milkweed that come up everywhere, and all the bugs eat the milkweed and leave the veggies alone. I watch daily for the tomato hornworms, so they never get a chance to do much damage before I find them.
Any new seedlings always get planted with toilet paper rolls, so I foiled all my cutworms. Crabshell in and around the new seedlings has done wonders for the root knot nematodes, too, so that makes a much healthier, stronger plant.
If I had to use anything, it would be BT and/or Neem oil. And like ladymarmalade- Deep Woods Off for the hummingbird-sized mosquitoes we have here in Florida.
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Post by paulf on Nov 5, 2017 17:20:16 GMT -5
Deep Woods Off for the hummingbird-sized mosquitoes we have here in Florida. When we visit Melbourne Beach, the biggest insect problem is not hummingbird sized but the very small nasty biting 'No See-ums'. Even Deep Woods Off does not deter these pests.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 6, 2017 15:32:44 GMT -5
Yeah, the no-see-ums are awful here sometimes, too. The mosquito spraying by the city doesn't seem to keep them down fully, either.
But they breed in water just like mosquitos, and apparently mosquito bits to work on them. I know this is just anecdotal, but I was much more consistent with keeping mosquito bits in all of my EBs and SIPs this season, and I had far fewer no-see-um problems.
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