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Spray saves holly from miners
UNIVERSITY PARK Are the leaves on your holly
trees covered with botch-like mines? If so, the holly leaf
miner is responsible, say Penn State specialists.
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For post-emergence weed control on com...
Donvelherbicide...
...alone or tank-mixed with 2,4-D
(depending on your weed problem):
...to control tough, late
germinating broodleof
weeds.
...to cover misses of
pre-emergence
herbicide application,
...to get control
where weather or
other factors moke
earlier application
impossible.
Call Agway for Banvel and other crop protection needs
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Holly leaf miners overwinter in holly leave*- one. rut rge
during May. The adults teed for about 10 oays before
females deposit their eggs in new leaves Feeding damage
appears as small punctures on leaves. These feeding
punctures may be so numerous that leaves become
distorted. An application ot t’iazmon or metasystox-R
when the small flies are present on the leaves during mid
to late May, will prevent feeding damage. Egg laying
occurs about the time new twig growth has three or four
leaves. The mines become evident duruig late Summer.
For further information on holly leaf miner control, call
the Extension Office in your county.
Vegetable garden weed control discussed
UNIVERSITY PARK - Many horticulturists believe
that more gardens are abandoned because of weeds than
for any other reason. The depressing sight of thousands of
grass plants such as crabgrass and foxtails competing
with tomato and other vegetable plants is enough to
discourage any gardener. But don’t despair, there are
many ways to rid weeds in your garden. The oldest
method is the use of the cultivator or the hoe.
However, to be successful, you have to get the weeds as
they emerge from the ground and keep after them
throughout the gardening season. If you let the weed
plants get too big, they must be pulled by hand. The other
method is the use of mulches such as black plastic, wood
chips and other organic materials. Plastic comes in rolls
from 36 to 48 inches wide and can be handled in two ways.
If you’re setting out plants, lay the plastic over the row,
cover the edges with soil to keep it in place, and then
punch a hole in the plastic just large enough to set the
plant. If planting seeds you can use the same procedure or
wait until the plant emerges and lay the plastic on each
side of the plants. Newspaper also makes an excellent
mulch. Lay the newspaper on each side of the plants,
cover it with wood chips or place soil on the edges. By the
end of the season or next Spring the newspaper will have
disintegrated and can be plowed or spaded into the soil.
Mulches such as plastic and newspaper are a haven for
slugs, so keep an eye out for them.
The Cooperative Extension Service does not rec-
...to moke sure thot lote weeds connot
moture to become the nursery for next
year's weed crop.
Ask us for application
details about Donvel
herbicide... from
Velsicol.
Note: Before using
any pesticide, read
the label.
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ENTERPRISE
SERVICE
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 6,1978
commend the use of herbicides to eliminate weeds in the
home vegetable garden. However, there are products
. cgisit ied tor this - -.e One contains DACTHAL which can
be safely used on many vegetables and strawberries.
Another is AMIBEN sold as Garden Weeder. If you decide
to use one of these materials, be sure to read the entire
label noting the crops on which it can be used, directions
as to the timing of the application, and precautions as to
its use, advises McKeehen.
Ever since I was a little girl and my brother
stirred up a goose and “sicced" it on me, I have
had an unreasonable healthy respect for large
members of the poultry line. Ducks and chickens
are all right but turkeys and geese look a lot better
to me at a distance.
This was brought to my attention again this past
week. I innpcently stopped at a farm to take a
picture of some Jambs when I noticed a gigantic
turkey roaming l«jse in the pasture. I went cold
inside as I felt his little beady eyes sizing me up.
TheV say animals can tell if you're afraid. Well, he
kn6w within two seconds flat I was terrified of him.
The good farmer’s wife got the lambs out and I
prepared to take my shots. But, by that time, that
old turkey knew he could ambush me any moment,
and chalk up another victory to his long line of
conquests. Suddenly it was hard for me to con
centrate on taking pictures -- I was mainly con
cerned with keeping my hostess between me and
the glowering turkey.
Seeing my fear, (my face must have been pure
white by then), the lady of the house pulled out a
shepherd’s crook, and battled the big bird away.
With shaking hands, I quickly took some pictures
of cuddly lambs -- all the time with one eye on the
action to my left.
As soon as the lambs were back in the barn, I
hastily thanked the good woman and put the fence
between me and the ruffley-feathered-monster.
Then I could breathe a sigh of relief.
But with my luck, next week I’ll get an exclusive
story on a new breed of giant geese.
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