B22—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, Way 28,1983
Sprayers: Garden Artillary
Once plants are up and growing,
the battle against insects and
diseases in the home garden in
tensifies. Every gardener should
own a small one to two gallon
sprayer. This is a big enough
“artillary piece" to knock out just
about any pesky insect horde.
Many gardeners like to dust
their plots, but this is an expensive
and messy way to do the job. Hie
chemical particles, for one thing,
blow all over the place.
Main targets in this counter
attack are the chewing and
sucking insects that riddle
vegetable and other plant leaves
with unsightly holes.
Sevm and malathion are ex-
cellent chemicals to use in com
bination. Sevin kills the chewing
insects like the striped cucumber
beetle and the bean beetle, while
malathion wipes out sucking in
sects like aphids and leaf hoppers.
It also may be necessary to use
kelthane if spider mite problems
develop later in the growing
season. , , .
Other effective chemicals for home
garden use are the fungicides
Maneb and Captan. They’re safe
for homeowners to use and can be
sprayed right up to five days
before harvest.
Malathion, Sevm and Maneb or
Captan are used in a mixture at the
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rate of two tablespoonfuls each per
gallon of water. Put a cup of water
and the chemicals in a jar with a
lid on it and shake it to make a
“gravy.”
Since these are toxic materials,
they should be handled with
special caution. Always read the
label and follow directions to the
letter. Once the slurry is mixed,
dump it into the sprayer with the
required amount of water.
This is a shotgun approach to
pest control but it will do a good job
on most of the insect pests as well
as reduce the incidence of
diseases. Be sure to mix only
enough material to do the job.
Disposing of leftover pesticides
mixtures is difficult and
dangerous.
In applying the chemicals, a
light misty spray on plants is
enough. It’s not necessary to give
them a bath.
A common mistake many
gardeners make is to wait until the
entire crop is plastered with in
sects and diseases. Then they
expect to find some miracle
chemicals to cure the problem.
This isn’t possible. The only way to
achieve good pest control is to have
a well-planned spray program.
Once the spray operation is done,
clean the sprayer with fresh water.
Hang it up with the plunger out so
it will dry. With proper care, this
type of sprayer should last many
years. Since it can be used on most
flower crops, too, it’s a good in
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Gardening teaclies
wonders of nature
Even a veteran gardener never
stops learning new things, ob
serves Dr. Conrad B. Link,
professor emeritus, who retires
last year after 34 years as an
Extension floriculture specialist at
the University of Maryland in
College Park.
Many of these “new things” are
not really new at all, Link ob
serves. Nor are they normally
found in textbooks. They are the
unexplainable whims of nature,
including birds and wild animals.
For instance, Link asks, why is it
that squirrels seem to prefer
eating the bulbs of yellow
crocuses? And what explains their
uncanny ability to dig up the bulbs
of only yellow crocuses in a bed of
mixed colors during the dormant
season?
If you’re in an area where deer
abound, have you noticed that
these animals love to graze on
-tulips but will not touch daffodils?
Deer also love sunflowers, Slack
eyed susans and strawberry
plants. But they don’t usually both
Shasta daisies. Nor do they seem to
have much appetitie for crown
vetch, which is a legume
sometimes seeded in pasture
mixes for cattle.
In the bird world, every species
seems to have its favorite garden
crop. Robins go for strawberries,
cherries and blueberries, while
mocking birds love gooseberries
and raspberries. Several kinds of
birds go wild over mulberries. But
no birds seem to care for
snowberries.
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