Controlling Insect Pests on Edibles
Midsummer means harvest time for fruit and vegetables. To make sure you enjoy your harvest before insect pests damage them, Bayer Advanced offers several products for use on edibles.
Bayer Advanced™ Complete Insect Killer for Gardens Dust may be used on home garden fruits, roses, flowers and vegetables as well as on dogs and cats.
On fruit and nut trees, it controls apple aphid, caterpillars, codling moth, filbertworm, fruit fly, green fruitworm, leafhoppers, leafrollers, lesser peachtree borer, mirid bug, navel orangeworm, Oriental fruit moth, peach twig borer, pear psyllia, plum curculio, rose chafer, spotted tentiform leafminer, tarnished plant bug, thrips, and walnut husk fly.
On vegetables and melons, it controls aphids, armyworms, artichoke plume moth, asparagus beetle, cabbage looper, Colorado potato beetle, corn earworm, corn rootworm (adult), cucumber beetle (adult), cutworms, diamondback moth, European corn borer, flea beetles, hornworms, imported cabbageworm, leaf hoppers, leaf miners, melon worm, onion maggot (adult), onion thrips, pepper weevil, pickle worm, plantbugs (induding lygus, squash, and stinkbugs), potato psyllid, potato tuberworm, rindworm, squash vine borer, tomato fruitworm, and tomato pinworm.
Apply Bayer Advanced™ Complete Insect Killer for Gardens Dust at first signs of insect infestation, preferably before damage from feeding occurs. Dust lightly, being sure to cover both upper and lower leaf surfaces with a thin, even film of dust as many insects hide on the underside of leaves.
Bayer Advanced™ PowerForce® Multi-Insect Killer Granules can be used on carrots, radishes, sweet corn, tomatoes and sunflowers to control armyworms, aster leafhoppers, cabbage loopers, carrot weevils, chinchbugs, Colorado potato beetles, corn borers, corn earworms, corn rootworms (adults), cutworms, flea beetles, grasshoppers, leafminers, potato aphids, stinkbugs, tomato fruitworms, tomato hornworms, tomato pinworms, western lower thrips and other insect pests.
Bayer Advanced™ Tree & Shrub Insect Control Concentrate is registered and labeled for use around the following fruit and nut trees: apple, crabapple, loquat, mayhew, Oriental pear, pear, pecan and quince. One application applied to the roots controls aphids, Colorado potato beetles, elm leaf beetles, leafhoppers, leafminers, mealybugs, Mexican bean beetles, sawfly larvae, scales, skeletonizer caterpillars and whiteflies for up to 12 months.
Bayer Advanced™ Dual Action Snail and Slug Killer Bait Granules can be used around vegetables, fruit trees and citrus. It is safe to use around pets and wildlife.
When using any Bayer Advanced product, follow label instructions exactly. On edibles, pay especially close attention to the time interval necessary between application and when the crop can be harvested.
Time for a Summer Watering Tune-Up
With summer heat continuing to bare down on lawns and gardens this month, it’s a good time to fine-tune watering practices and double check all irrigation equipment to make sure it’s operating properly.
First, make sure you’re watering deeply and efficiently. After watering, probe the soil with a stiff wire or rod. It will move easily through wet soil and stop when it hits dry. You can also check water penetration by digging around with a shovel. Lawns should be watered to a depth of 6 to 8 inches. Most annuals, perennials and vegetables should be watered at least 12 to 18 inches deep. Water shrubs to a depth 18 to 36 inches, depending on how tall they are. Trees should be watered to a depth of at least 3 to 4 feet. Deep watering leads to deep roots and plants that can better withstand heat and drought.
Next, check your irrigation equipment. If you have an automatic sprinkler system, watch it run. If necessary, adjust spray patterns and fix broken sprinklers. Also check drip lines for clogged emitters.
Repot root-bound container plants. Lastly, refresh mulches, making sure you’ve got a good 2 to 3 inches around trees and shrubs.
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