Plant Pest and Disease Interventions http://www.plantsthatproduce.com
R. Frost 07/25/2008
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Situation |
Intervention |
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Cert. Organic* |
Deterrent |
Eradicate |
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Fruits and Vegetables |
common insect pests |
Safer Insecticide Spinosadê |
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Bayer PowerForce Green Light Fruit Tree Sprayê |
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common mildew, fungus |
Safer Fungicide |
Lilly Miller Polysulê Monterey Liqui-Cop |
Ortho Garden Fungicide |
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spider mites, leaf miners |
Spinosadê |
Green Light Fruit Tree Sprayê |
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slugs and snails |
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Beer in Snail Trap |
Monterey Sluggo (pet safe)ê |
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peach-leaf curl, other fungi |
Safer Fungicide |
Lilly Miller Polysulê Green Light Fruit Tree Sprayê |
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fireblight |
Remove Blight |
Monterey Liqui-Copê Remove flowering/orn. pearê |
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Ground Cover, Lawns |
common lawn weeds, crabgrass |
Hoeê |
Portrait Crabgrass Preventer w/ Pre-emergent |
Bayer All-In-One Ortho Weed-B-Gone |
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grubs, insect pests |
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Bayer Grub Control Bayer Complete Insect Killerê |
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bermuda in fescue |
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Turflon Ester |
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oxalis |
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Oxalis X Ortho Weed-B-Gone |
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fungus |
Safer Fungicideê |
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Spectracide Immunox Bayer Fungus Control |
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Ornamentals |
common insect pests |
Safer Insecticide |
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Bayer PowerForce w/Cyfluthrinê Spectracide Insect & Disease Ortho Systemic (Isotox) |
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common mildew, fungus |
Safer Fungicideê |
Lilly Miller Polysulê |
Spectracide Immunox Ortho Garden Fungicide |
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spider mites, leaf miners |
Safer 3-in-1 |
Spinosadê Green Light Fruit Tree Sprayê |
Ortho Systemic (Isotox)
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slugs and snails |
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Beer in Snail Trap |
Monterey Sluggo (pet safe)ê Snarol, Deadline (metaldehyde) |
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fireblight |
Remove Blight |
Monterey Liqui-Copê Remove flowering/orn. pearê |
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weed abatement |
Hoeê blow-torch |
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Glyphosate (generic Round-Up) |
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Animal Pests |
gophers |
½ inch chicken wire |
vibrators, cats |
Strychnine bait |
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rats, possum |
½ inch chicken wire |
ground cayenneê (add it to your bird seed) |
LiphaTech “Maki” Baitê, Farnum “Just One Bite”ê |
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skunks, raccoon |
½ inch chicken wire |
Critter Ridder, Deer Off, Liquid Fence, Shake-Away |
Havahart Trapê Pellet Gun |
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cottontail rabbits |
2-foot fenceê |
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Havahart Trap, Coyotes, Pellet Gun |
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jackrabbits |
8-foot fence |
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deer |
12-foot fenceê |
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Hunting license Mountain lions |
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cats |
4-foot non-climbable fence |
“ or cocoa mulch |
Havahart Trap |
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crows, ravens, jays, orioles |
½ inch chicken wire or strong netting enclosure |
cats, netting enclosure, robotic water cannonsê |
Hunting license (crows, ravens)ê |
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