Oh great!! Then I suppose they assume you are going to eat them??

SugarChile wrote:

I was at a local garden center today, and they had a display advising you to
incorporate diazinon in your onion set plantings, to control onion maggots.
Shudder Perhaps they were trying to clear inventory before the complete
ban goes into effect.

Sue

Zone 6, Southcentral PA

"Pam" wrote in message
...
Diazinon is now a restricted pesticide because of its high potential for
human
toxicity, not to mention other environmental concerns. As of 2002, it can
no longer
be marketed to retailers for residential use, although some product may
still remain
on store shelves, but by August of this year even those must be removed
and
destroyed. I certainly would not recommend anyone consider using this
product, even
if you can find it on store shelves. Grub control can easily be
accomplished by
other, less toxic means such as better cultural care and benenficial
nematodes.

pam - gardengal


"John S. DeBoo" wrote:

Yes, Diazinon can be purchased at probably any place that carries bug
killers
etc, certainly at Home Depot etc. For lawn control you'll mix several
tablespoons (read directions carefully) with water in a garden hose
sprayer, then
spray that diluted mixture (which gets diluted even more since its now
mixing
with the water in the hose) all over the lawn and water profusely.
Diazinon is
strong stuff and depending upon the mixture (dilution) used can be used
for all
manner of bug control. I hate using chemicles myself but sometimes they
really
do the trick.

Heather wrote:

Never heard of this stuff before....Is this something that you can get
at
the store? like Home Depot, Canadian Tire, or local Garden Center or
something like that? Does it harm the flowers in a flower bed? My
grass
buts up against some fairly new planting beds in the front and
backyards and
would hate to kill off all the planting I did last year.

Thanks for your advice
Heather
Zone 6 - Toronto, Canada

"John S. DeBoo" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:

I noticed grubs in our lawn and garden last year. What is the
best way
to
get rid of these without hiring the professionals. I live in
Toronto
Canada
and we are covered by snow right now but want to get a start to
solving
the
problem once it's gone if possible.

WE had them in our lawn in Albuquerque and I used Diazinon. After
dilutinbg with
water and spreading with a hose sprayer you need to water profusely
so it
soaks
down intot he soil where these miserable critters live. I've yet to
find
a grub
in our lawn since and we treated ours maybe 10 years ago. Thats my
experience
anyway.

--
John S. DeBoo