Hi,
I use spray n grow for my vegetable garden (All EBs) I also use Rotenone and Neem for bugs n stuff. Anyone here have a suggestion on timing for these two products?? Spray-n-Gro recommends waiting 5-7 days after spraying with insecticides before using their product and then waiting ANOTHER 5-7 days before using your bug spray again. If I do this the bugs will TOTALLY get the upper hand. How do you guys handle this?? Do you just wait 2-3 days and then spray?? What are your results doing it your way??
I need info from folks who grow ***vegetables*** and use Spray-n-Grow AND insecticide AND fungucide. I do not need info on flower spraying. HELP!!! (please :-))
Thanks
DL
Spray and Grow spray for gardens - need help please!!
Well you got me for a start! Your fertilizeing can wait. Take care of the most serious problem either insect or bacterial. Bacterial (Virus) should come first as that spreads rapidly. If it rains spray again and don't wait five to seven days. You should not have to use any more fertilizer if you set up your EB according to instructions?
I use Spray-n-Grow but not on my EBs. I use all their products but if I have a severe problem and organic does not help I use Ortho products or Spectricide products.I don't have a bug problem but I spray every seven to ten days as a preventative. And yes I do have EBs. Twenty-two to be exact. Are you having an infestation at this time of year in your zone???
Tplant,
Thanks for the info. I have a somewhat different method for setting up some of my EBs and I do use Spray-n-Grow even with the EB fertilizer strip. I do not always use the fertilizer strip because I sometimes use the entire EB for planting even the middle. I am not having an infestation at this time because I only have cool weather crops and garlic planted now. I have asked around locally and many of the folks who use Spray-n-Grow do not wait 5-7 days after they spray their bug/disease sprays and wait only 2-3 days and then spray with Spray-n-Grow. I posted the question to this forum to get information from a larger variety of folks and with the answers I hope to receive I will then make my own determination as to when/how I will manage my spray program. Sort of like "2 heads are better than one".
This past summer I sprayed Rotenone for aphids and waited 5 days and then sprayed with Spray-n-Grow. When I needed to use the Neem I did the same 5 day wait. I have found that even with the EB fertilizer I get MUCH better productivity in my tomatoes/peppers when I spray with Spray-n-Grow.
Currently I am making my journal/plans for my spring/summer 2008 garden and that is why I am asking what other folks do with their spraying programs. I really like to experiment.
Thanks for all your info.
DL
Sounds interesting about spraying Spray n Grow fertilizer on the EBs! I'll try it for comparison as it couldn't hurt anything. Live and learn. Do you use the covers?
Unless your plants are really overwelmed, you can often knock back aphids quite successfully by just giving the plant a good spray with the garden hose. Once knocked off, they don't seem to be able to find their way back to the plant. You might have to spray with the hose a couple of time to get all/most of them, and be sure to spray upwards so you get the undersides of the leaves.
Aphids are annoying!
Tplant,
I use the covers except for onions and garlic. I plant onions and garlic in rows - 4 rows to the EB. I use my onions for scallions not for full bulb onions.
For the chard I make a slit in the cover from end to end instead of the "+" for each plant and then I use ground stakes to hold the plastic down.
critterologist,
I have tried the hose spray for the aphids but they always come right back with a vengence so I hit them with a little weak bug spray and that seems to get them to go away. It is interesting however that the aphids can be thick as thieves on 2-3 plants and then there will be other plants right next to them that have not one aphid!!
DL
I understand -- I've done the same thing! Just wanted to make sure you'd heard of that trick... it's remarkable how often it does work.
Aphids absolutely covered one of my milkweed plants in the butterfly garden this summer... and they left the other 5 plants pretty much alone. No spraying there of course, and after a couple attempts at squashing or hosing them off, I just let them have that plant. LOL