GARDENING, PLANTS - HANDY HINTS & TIPS
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CHRYSANTHEMUM:
You can use them for Pest Control
GARDEN PEST CONTROL:
The distinctive scent of chrysanthemums helps disguise other plants and protect them from pests.
A border of chrysanthemums can help keep beetles off your rhubarb, and autum aphids off cabbages and broccoli.
Blue Mountains NSW
Orange NSW
Bathurst NSW
Lithgow NSW
Vegetable Patch Pest Contols:
Grey aphids, white butterfly larvae (bluish-green caterpillars), other caterpillars.
The above can be kept in check by spraying occasionally with pyrethrum which can be regarded as non toxic, or by dusting with one of the commercial cabbage dusts. The cabbage dusts usually contain derris or rotenone plus carbaryl, which is more lethal to caterpillars and other chewing insects.
The above can be kept in check by spraying occasionally with pyrethrum which can be regarded as non toxic, or by dusting with one of the commercial cabbage dusts. The cabbage dusts usually contain derris or rotenone plus carbaryl, which is more lethal to caterpillars and other chewing insects.
Although toxic, carbaryl is rapidly bio-degradable, leaving an appreciable residue on the plants for only three days. In all cases though, it is desirable to wash foliage before use.
